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Android Marshmallow

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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).

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.

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.

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.