In a blog post earlier
today, Pushbullet, the app that brings multi-device sharing to Android
announced an update for Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).
The update wasn’t a small one and featured the typical security and bug
fixes as well as improvements to minor annoyances such as slow SMS sync,
battery use, and for good measure the team even shrunk the app size by
25 percent.
As far as feature releases, perhaps the star of the show are the
individualized runtime permissions. Rather than approving blanket access
for permissions when installing the app, you can now approve them as
your app needs them.
If you’re feeling extra tinfoil hat-y and you’d prefer Pushbullet not
have access to SMS messages, now you can enable and revoke this access
as you need it. Currently it’s set up to ask for permission for four
specific groups: SMS, contacts, phone and storage.
Additionally, I found the Direct Share feature to be useful. Now you can
add all your connected devices to a single screen and the update
actually takes into account your preferences for sharing when
positioning them. So, if you share to your ChromeTV most often, it’ll
appear first, then your laptop, then your tablet, etc.
Now just cross your fingers that your device gets the Marshmallow update soon (if it hasn’t already).
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