Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Android P’s Slices and App Actions change the way you interact with apps

Google has revealed Slices and App Actions for Android P, two features aimed at increasing user engagement with installed apps and making their unique features more easily accessed.

Slices provides a smaller version of an installed app inside Google Search and Google Assistant, offering certain app functions without the need for users to open and operate the full application.

For example, you could type something like "I want to book a hotel room" into Search and a limited version of an installed hotel booking app would appear there. In the example in the image below, typing "Hawaii" brings up images of a previous Hawaii trip from Google Photos.

App Actions aims to predict the next action a user wants to take. Actions such as calling a person or starting a workout, for example, will appear in bubbles at the top of the launcher on Android P when the system predicts you will want to use them.

This is based on your own usage habits, so if you usually go for a run at 18:00, your phone would anticipate that you'll want to open your favorite running app, and instead drop the activity button directly into the launcher.

Google I/O app actions

These features will launch alongside Android P, but may come to other versions of Android.

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