Forging ahead with its bread-and-butter mobile platform, Google is offering a developer preview of its upcoming Android M OS, which focuses on improvements in areas ranging from app permissions to mobile payments.

What’s new in Android M

With Android M, Google is focusing on six areas to improve the core user experience, including changing app permissions to give users more choice in control of the data and hardware that apps access. “We’re greatly simplifying app permissions to smaller set of easily understood things, like microphone and location”, said Dave Burke, Google’s vice president of engineering, at the Google I/O conference yesterday.

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