Android marshmallow

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Android Marshmallow

• Latest version of android application

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About Android Marshmallow

• Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" is a version of
  the Android mobile operating system. First
  unveiled in May 2015 at Google I/O under the
  codename "Android 'M'", it was officially
  released in October 2015.
• Marshmallow primarily focuses on improving the
  overall user experience of Lollipop introducing a
  new permissions architecture, new APIs for
  contextual assistants (a feature notably
  leveraged by "Google Now On Tap"a new capability
  of the Google Search app).

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History

• The developer preview build, codenamed Android
  "M", was unveiled and released at Google I/O on
  May 28, 2015, for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6
   phones, Nexus 9 tablet, and Nexus Player set-top
  box, under the build number MPZ44Q.
• The third developer preview under build number
  MPA44G was released on August 17, 2015,later
  updated to MPA44I, and brought fixes related to
  Android for Work profiles. "Marshmallow" was
  officially announced as the release's name the
  same day.

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Features

• User experience
• A new "Assist" API allows information from
  a currently-opened app
• including text and a screenshot of the current
  screen, to be sent to a designated "assistant"
  application for analysis and processing.
• A newly inserted SD card or other secondary
  storage media can be designated as either
  "portable" or "internal" storage.

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• Platform
• Android Marshmallow introduces a redesigned
  application permission model there are now only
  eight permission categories, and applications are
  no longer automatically granted all of their
  specified permissions at installation time. An
  opt-in system is now used, in which users are
  prompted to grant or deny individual permissions
  (such as the ability to access the camera or
  microphone) to an application when they are
  needed for the first time.

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