Google's upcoming Android P features leaked

It is now March, and the official release of Android P, which Android fans have been eagerly waiting for, is getting closer. Although Google has not officially announced it yet, news about Android P is still flying all over the place.

Android Police explains that Iris scanners are supported in Android P. Several commits have been submitted to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for iris recognition as a biometric security method.

Don't get too excited, this has nothing to do with the Android engineers, it's all thanks to the software engineers responsible for fingerprints.

However, earlier rumors did suggest that Google was considering adding notch support to Android P due to the massive support for the new iPhone X design and its notch.

But don't get your hopes up until Google actually confirms that Android P will have native iris unlocking support. It doesn't necessarily mean that the Pixel 3 will actually have iris unlocking.

Another interesting Android P news comes from Reddit. At the end of January, a user noticed that a Huawei employee submitted an Android P bug to Google's official issue tracker. This means Huawei is also involved.

Google does offer device manufacturers early access to new Android versions, in theory to help them speed up Android updates, especially now that Oreo has implemented Project Treble.

Google confirmed that the issue had been passed to the development team and marked as fixed a few days ago.

This doesn't mean Huawei will participate in the upcoming Android developer preview, which will be released publicly to Nexus and Pixel devices in the coming months.

It also doesn't indicate Huawei's involvement in the creation of future Pixel models. Given that Google acquired much of HTC's engineering team, it's expected that Google would create the Pixel 3 on its own.

Of course, there is more to it. XDA developers have developed an enhanced call blocking feature that will allow users to block calls from unknown, private, and premium phone numbers.

I believe this feature will definitely be welcomed by users and we can finally get rid of those annoying calls.

***, Google announced on Wednesday that it will block unofficial Android APIs in Android P.

This means that Android APIs that are not officially working with the Android SDK will not be able to be used for app development. This move is intended to prevent abnormal app behavior that could result from using unofficial APIs.