Google's Android press shots almost always set the time to be a representation of the current version, so 5.0 showed 5:00, and 5.1 showed 5:10. It blanks out all the notifications and shows a 100% battery and sets the time to 5:20. There's also a 'demo mode' which pops up a fake status bar for more presentable screenshots. Now you'd be able to turn it off, assuming OEMsВ don't mess with this feature.

ItВ might seem a little weird to hide important status bar indicators, but we're guessing this is aimed at OEM skins, which like to fill the status bar with crap. There's a whole set of options to hide stock status bar icons, so if you want to hide your signal bars or alarm clock icon you can now. This has been built into AOSP forever but turning it on before required a rooted phone-now it's very easy. There's an option to show a percentage readout in the battery status bar icon, which has been a favorite feature of modders. The UI tuner was introduced in the first version of Android M and only let you rearrange the power control pulldown, but now it has been expanded with status bar options. The other big additions are the new System UI Tuner options. The new homescreen finally supports auto rotate, so you have a horizontal home screen now. We'll have to see how well it actually predicts what we want to use. The top row of apps in the app drawer, which isn't alphabetical and changes all the time, is apparently the 'predictive apps' bar. There's still the nice-to-have search bar at the top of the screen, and it actually looks like a search bar now. It looked ugly and was a waste of space, so we're glad to see them gone. The original implementation removed an entire column of icons to make room for huge index letters. The most prominent change is the fixed app drawer, which looks much better than the Preview 1 version. (The picturesВ are a mix of Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 screenshots, so don't worry about any size differences.) But hey, we're here, we've got a new version of Android to play with, so lets get comparing! Google described this release as an 'incremental update,' and that sounds about right to us-not a whole lot has changed. We've already covered the change from 5.1 to Android M Preview 1, so with the new version, we might as well cover the changes between Android M Preview 1 and 2. Further Reading Hands on with Android M Developer Preview 1Google pushed out the firstВ update to the Android M Developer Preview.

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