Android oreo features which makes it better than Nougat

Android Oreo feature spotlight: Redesigned Wi-Fi info screen now shows Sign In button for public networks

This article is Android O Feature Spotlights .

Wi-Fi networks that us capative (like a Sign In page) can be a real headache. You connect to it, and then try to figure out why nothing is loading, and finally Android shows the 'Sign in to network' popup. Starting with Android O, the Settings app makes it more obvious that you are connected to a public Wi-Fi network.

Android 7.0

Android 8.0

Android O's battery optimization feature is awesome

As mentioned above, the switch only appears on apps not targeting Android O (meaning apps that aren't yet built with Android O support in mind). For applications already targeting Android 8.0, like Twitter in the above screenshot, the battery optimizations are already enabled and cannot be turned off.

As you might expect, forcing the new background limits on older apps can break notifications and similar functionality. Still, if you use an app or two with battery-draining tendencies, Android O can help you out

Android Oreo feature spotlight: Rescue Party might save bootlooping devices from an early death

The user facing features of Android 8.0 were mostly already known before yesterday's grand reveal of the Oreo name and the final version, but there are usually other tweaks that only become apparent after a bit of time looking through the documentation. One interesting new discovery is a feature called rescue party, which is designed to combat a much publicized recent Android problem, the infamous bootloop.

 which works by monitoring device start-up activity and attempting to fix any issues. Rescue Party will come in to play in either of the following situations:

• The system_server restarts more than 5 times in 5 minutes.
• A persistent system app crashes more than 5 times in 30 seconds.

It will then escalate through a series of recovery actions, with the last resort being a reboot into recovery mode which will give you the option to do a factory reset. The features are enabled by default in Android Oreo, though OEMs are not forced to keep it if they don't want to.

Taskers can hide app in running in the backgroun .No root

persistent notification for each app that runs in the background. While this is certainly helpful for the average person, it can get old quick for power users that frequently run applications like Tasker and LastPass. If the messages really get on your nerves, you can now use Tasker and the Notification Listener plugin to hide them.

You can view the whole instruction guide at XDA, but it involves installing both Tasker and Notification Listener (linked at the bottom of this post) and importing a Tasker profile. Once that's done, you can either trigger the task manually to hide the notifications, or set the trigger event to "Monitor Start" to hide them automatically. Root is not required.

If you're wondering how this works, it's actually quite simple. The Tasker profile just snoozes the notifications (which is another Android Oreo feature) for an incredibly long time. 317098 years, to be exact. The profile actually snoozes all notifications from the Android System process, but you don't have to worry about missing anything important, because the only notification it provides is the one we're trying to hide.

It would be nice if Google provided an option to hide the messages, like in the System UI Tuner or Developer Options. At the very least, I hope this workaround isn't disabled in a future Android update.For more info click here