Google's December Android Feature Drop delivers lots of new features for Google Pixels - XDA Developers

Just successful clip for the holidays, Google has announced a ton of caller features for its Android operating strategy for Pixel devices with the December Android Feature Drop. The caller features are benignant of a mixed container but should connection a batch of benefits for those utilizing an Android smartphone, Wear OS smartwatch, Google Photos and the Google TV app. With that said, let's excavation in.

Google Photos - More Styles

Google Photos users volition beryllium excited this vacation play arsenic the institution has added much unsocial designs to its collage editor. Previously, the institution revamped Google Photos, adding snippets from videos to Memories and debuting a diagnostic called Styles, which added graphic creation to photos that made collages that looked similar scrapbooks. The erstwhile update had designs by artists similar Shantell Martin and Lisa Congdon. Now, the institution is adding adjacent much designs to Styles, with additions from artists similar DABSMYLA and Yao Cheng Design.

Reader Mode

Android is besides adding a caller Reading Mode connected Android that is going to beryllium a lifesaver for radical who person a hard clip oregon are incapable to work text. Once Reader Mode is installed connected your Android device, you volition beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of customizable show settings that see adjustable contrast, antithetic font types, and size, and determination volition beryllium an enactment for text-to-speech. The text-to-speech enactment volition adjacent person velocity control.

Emoji Kitchen - New combinations for the holidays

Google has done a batch with emoji implicit the past year, expanding its capabilities and giving users the quality to make their ain done the GBoard Emoji Kitchen. If unfamiliar, Emoji Kitchen allows users to harvester to antithetic emoji to make a caller one. Since you tin harvester to make caller emoji, determination are thousands of antithetic combinations, which tin adhd a spot of unexpected flair erstwhile having a conversation. The latest update adds caller combinations, immoderate of which are going to beryllium cleanable for wintertime and the holidays.

YouTube Search Widget - Quick entree to each your favourite content

If YouTube is your superior root of entertainment, the caller location surface widget is going to bring added pleasance to your experience, making it adjacent easier and faster to dive into your content. The caller location surface widget's size tin beryllium customized but is the astir utile successful its expanded form, arsenic it offers buttons that springiness you nonstop entree to your subscriptions, library, and adjacent Shorts.

Those that similar to ticker contented connected their TV tin instrumentality vantage of the caller one-touch casting diagnostic successful the Google TV app. In summation to casting, users volition beryllium capable to usage their telephone to hunt for contented and besides usage it arsenic a distant too. This diagnostic volition beryllium rolling retired adjacent week and volition enactment with compatible TVs.

Digital car keys person been astir for a small portion for Android, giving users the quality to unlock their compatible car with a compatible Android smartphone. But now, Google is introducing a mode to stock your integer car cardinal with others. The quality to stock a integer car cardinal volition beryllium disposable for compatible vehicles for Pixel owners and Apple iPhone users.

Furthermore, you volition beryllium capable to power who has entree to your car utilizing your phone's integer wallet. Of course, determination are an array of antithetic information features involved, similar a PIN for authorization and driving restrictions that tin beryllium set, making it much unafraid erstwhile sending a integer cardinal retired to a household subordinate oregon friend.

Wear OS gets amended with tiles

Wear OS has been getting better but is obscurity adjacent wherever galore had hoped it would beryllium with its 3rd iteration. But with Samsung adopting the Wear OS for its smartwatches and Google releasing its own hardware, things could get dramatically amended implicit the adjacent mates of years. With the caller update, we get much tiles for Wear OS, making it easier to spot and entree accusation astatine a glance.

In summation to caller tiles, Google volition besides beryllium updating the Keep app, making it much similar its smartphone counterpart, with views for labels and collaborators. The updated app volition besides amusement a customized inheritance connected Wear OS arsenic well, making it casual to place notes astatine a glance. Lastly, Wear OS users volition beryllium capable to motorboat exercises utilizing voice, with entree to up to 30 antithetic exercises consecutive from the wrist.

There's a batch to observe with the caller update but archer us, what's your favourite portion of this caller update?

Source: Google