54 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 50GOOGLE I/O 2018
dynamic images that you can interact with. Like the
iPhone X, you can swipe up on one of the screens
to quit it, but you can also long press inside them to
select text. From here, you can move the handles
to select the words you want, and copy, search,
or translate what’s between them, all without
opening the app.- Smart shortcuts make switching faster
When you swipe up to enter the multitasking carousel
in Android P, you won’t just get a scrollable set of your
most recent screens. You’ll also see shortcuts to five
predictive apps curated using Google’s on-device
machine learning. Apple does something similar with
its Siri suggestions on the Spotlight search screen,
but it’s much handier on Android P.
Google’s new gesture-based
navigation can be turned on
and off with a switch