Pushbullet Gains Marshmallow Optimizations With New Update
Pushbullet, the popular multi-device notification and link-sharing tool has been updated today enabling it to take full advantage of Android 6.0 Marshmallow’s new built-in improvements. The update introduces support for runtime permissions and Direct Share. You get to specify to Pushbullet which permissions of your device that it can access. The Direct Share feature will let users easily and quickly share items with their registered recent devices.
With runtime permissions, Pushbullet will now ask for your permission to do things like view your SMS messages, contacts, phone, and storage. Pushbullet now only asks for permission to access features when it needs them, not when you download it from the Play Store.
Pushbullet will ask for a total of 4 individual permissions to access your SMS, contacts, phone and storage. What’s more, the developers and engineers have built the permission requests in to the initial app setup so that you know right from the beginning what it needs to have access to.
What’s New:
- Uses runtime permissions (Android 6.0+)
- Added Direct Share support, putting your recent devices right in the Share menu (Android 6.0+)
- Notification actions are mirrored now on Marshmallow
- Possible MMS fix for those affected on Marshmallow, please confirm via Send feedback
- Reduced apk size by 25%
- Many bugfixes and performance improvements
