Future Android Features

[TiredEngineer]

Not sure if anyone has read this article...

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...t-transfer-new-authorization-techniques-much/

...but the probable future features in Android look amazing. Who knows when much of it will be enabled (could very well coincide with the L release), but some of these improvments are major:

-Trusted zones (not just smart watches...but looks like potentially any Bluetooth device...such as your car)
-APP BACKCUP to your hidden partition in Google Drive (I can't tell you how much I have waited for this with most game developers refusing to utilize the Google Play Games Cloud Save functionality).

 

[s44]

Yes, these look like adjuncts to L. The proximity unlock also applies to Chromebooks, keeping them unlocked when your phone is near!

 

[Dulanic]

App backup would be freaking awesome. I mean I don't mind using TB and it does rock, but to have the basic apps backed up to Google drive automatically would be killer and a huge time saver for me. I do like that they put these things out in the play services so manufacturers can't sit on their a$$ about pushing out some of these updates now.

I am curious to see which will need a OS upgrade to L and which just will work /w play services and a magic switch Google flips.

 

[TiredEngineer]

App backup would be freaking awesome. I mean I don't mind using TB and it does rock, but to have the basic apps backed up to Google drive automatically would be killer and a huge time saver for me. I do like that they put these things out in the play services so manufacturers can't sit on their a$$ about pushing out some of these updates now.

I am curious to see which will need a OS upgrade to L and which just will work /w play services and a magic switch Google flips.

It's an even bigger update for those of us that refuse to root their devices.

Anyway, I have moved to a Nexus only "lifestyle"...so I am just ready for L to be released.

C'mon Google. I am impatient!