Android Advisor 2017

60 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 45

FEATURE

have delayed notifications and other bugs when not

allowed to run continuously in the background.

3. Snooze notifications
   Android is great at delivering a ton of information
   in notifications, but you don’t always want to pay
   attention to a notification immediately. In Android 8.0
   Oreo, you can snooze notifications until later. You
   don’t have to dig into any menus to set this up, but
   it’s still somewhat hidden.

When you get a notification you want to snooze,

slide it left or right, but don’t swipe it away. Tap the

clock icon next to the notification, and it will be

snoozed for one hour. At that time, the notification

pops up again. You can also change the hour timer to

15 minutes, 30 minutes, or two hours by hitting the

drop-down next to the hour snooze indicator.

4. Granular control over sideloading apps
   In past versions of Android, the ‘unknown sources’
   permission was all or nothing. Either every app on
   your phone could install apps as sideloaded APKs,