ISSUE 50 • ANDROID ADVISOR 19HANDS-ONThese adaptive features are there in part to help
save battery life, but they will also play a part in
performance too. A phone with apps pushed to
the background taking up less battery will always
perform better than one with no optimization at all.
In the app drawer there’s also the small addition of
app actions and AI predictions, where the OS will try
and guess what you might want to do next, whether
that’s text or call a certain contact, or open a certain
app. It hasn’t popped up much yet as it’s designed to
improve over time – adaptive, see.
A final addition is Slices, which didn’t work for us
on first go, but is designed to learn your behaviour.Android P’s
adaptive features
will help save
battery life