The advent of Android 10 update brought along a lot of curiosity among the developers about its new features and functionality. Once Android 10 was live, the new features were no more hidden and had the eyes of IT industry worldwide on them comparing with the available options in Android 9 and thinking which one is better – Android 9 or Android 10.
Here is a comparison of features and functionalities offered by both Android 9 and Android 10.
- Battery Consumption
Android 10 comes with Dark Mode and also with upgraded settings of ‘Adaptive Battery’ providing a longer battery life to its devices than those running with Android 9. - Gesture Navigation Controls
Another major change observed between Android 9 and Android 10 is the gesture-based navigation in the updated version. Android 10 has removed the Home Button and added quicker gesture navigation functionalities. - Emojis and Messaging
Messaging functionality in the Android 10 comes with Smart Reply with which users can reply to a text without actually opening the messaging app. Moreover, Android 10 comes with emojis of people from multiple professions and new stock of animals and food as well, which were not available in Android 9. - UI Design & Themes
Android 10 has taken the ‘look and feel’ experience of users to an entirely new level. Android 10 UI comes with an outstanding UX and also offers a plethora of themes enabling the users to customize style, font size and icons on their devices. - Fast Share
Android Beam has been replaced by Fast Share in Android 10. It is a blend of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct which creates a connection and thus transfers files much faster than in Android 9. - Digital Wellbeing
Android 10 comes with a Focus mode with which users can silence all other apps in order to concentrate on a single task, leading to better tracking of their digital wellbeing. - Privacy & Security
Android 10 offers different privacy & security settings than its predecessor such as:
- Users have better setting options for location-access permissions.
- Applications can now only have access to relevant files and not just any random app in users’ device.
- Applications running in the background now require permission to access data.
- Access to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other options of connectivity is also not possible now without the permission of users.
- Biometric API has also been modified significantly to enable robust and secure functionality of facial authentication and fingerprint.
Conclusion:
The differences here clearly put forward the upper hand of improved functionalities in Android 10. However, it doesn’t in any way mean that Android 10 is better, as the better from both depends on various factors on which you focus as a user. Hence, you must jot down what matters to you the most and compare those features based on your focused factors in order to decide which version is better for yourself.
