Google releases Android N Developer Preview

[beebskadoo]

16 minutes ago, Tocsin_786 said:

oh thats wonderful. Its one of the many reasons why i dont buy LG phones or Samsung unless it can get Cyanogen (or any OS with a white background on menus) because it hurts my eyes. 

I just installed the Dev preview and I am loving the split screen so far. I can run Reddit and Imgur at the same time, my life is complete

[AlTech]

4 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

If i contact someone in the USA to get this phone for me, of caurse i'll send 200$ and he'll send me the phone will this work? Are there some restrictions? There is no chance in near 50 years that projects like project fi coming in my country, we does not even have apple, sony, HTC, products official sellers, I live in Georgia (no not the state of america, in east europe)

sadly prices are too high in my country

nexus 5x 16 GB costs ~430$ nexus 6p costs ~680$

That's cos most Europeans like Windows Phones.........

 

And so nobody else tries to tell them otherwise.

[Map3y]

11 hours ago, Arty said:

hmmm weird, it worked flawlessly. 

 

did it revert or did the phone die what happened?

It went true the process and rebooted to MM.  But today it gave me another OTA and that worked. 

[tsk]

Sucks that my trusty old Nexus 5 won't get this, guess I have to get a new phone by the end of the year.

[Doobeedoo]

Yey Nutella 

ヽ(´▽`)/   I'm not even sure if I'll receive Marshmallow update for my original Sony Xperia Z though =/ They said it's still yet to be announced if older devices as such will receive. If not I may turn to custom ROM for 6.0 not sure is there any ye without issues for my phone. Anyone maybe knows?

[Exty]

4 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

That's cos most Europeans like Windows Phones.........

 

And so nobody else tries to tell them otherwise.

No most Europeans use Android phones and almost no one uses Windows phones

[MimigaKing]

Awwwww, Google's love for Nexus 5 is over =(

 

This makes me very sad...

[Arty]

10 minutes ago, MimigaKing said:

Awwwww, Google's love for Nexus 5 is over =(

 

This makes me very sad...

There is code that was found that the nexus 5 might get the update 

[LAwLz]

So new stuff so far:

• Multi windows (better late than never)
• Reply directly from the notification center
• Bundling multiple notifications together (so for example a messaging app could bundle multiple messages together, instead of creating brand new ones for each message)
• Dark theme as well as a night mode which changes the color temperature to be slightly warmed, and thus easier on your eyes.
• Improved energy and memory usage
• Faster animations
• Editing quick toggles
• Ability to modify virtual DPI (so you can make things scale to be larger or smaller)
• Moving to OpenJDK 8.
• Devices will now show an error message when they detect private APIs and native libraries which aren't part of the Android NDK.
• A few new settings like data saver, which will reduce background apps from using the network connection.
• Number blocking and call screening (do specific things such as reject or make calls from a certain number not appear in the log)

They will also improve things for tablet users but we don't know how yet (about damn time).

 

Pretty cool so far, but not anything groundbreaking.

[Trixanity]

I know that it's still in development and we're still waiting on Google I/O for more details but there's three things that are either not addressed or only partially addressed in Android N that needs to be done:

 

1) Timely updates; remove OS fragmentation

2) Performance improvements across the board. Eliminate stuttering. Eliminate unresponsiveness. Do what you must, Google. Just fix it already.

3) Battery improvements. The work on Doze is commendable but there's still things to improve.

[Guest Kloaked]

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Dark theme as well as a night mode which changes the color temperature to be slightly warmed, and thus easier on your eyes.

Most important thing to me. Have it turned on right now and it's neat.

 

Though, I hope they revert the titles in push notifications back to the Android M style. I don't like this revision of it.

[patrick3027]

So they stole/copied a bunch of features from HTC Sense, Samsung's TouchWiz, custom roms and custom launchers and called it a day?

[AlTech]

7 minutes ago, patrick3027 said:

So they stole/copied a bunch of features from HTC Sense, Samsung's TouchWiz, custom roms and custom launchers and called it a day?

Pretty much.

[LAwLz]

35 minutes ago, patrick3027 said:

So they stole/copied a bunch of features from HTC Sense, Samsung's TouchWiz, custom roms and custom launchers and called it a day?

Are you surprised? That has pretty much been the formula since the beginning of Android. That is also the reason why I keep saying that banning OEMs from making the own skins is a terrible idea. It would kill innovation and speed of progress for Android. Like 2/3 of Android features (grabbed that number of out the air by the way, don't have any solid numbers) started out as parts of skins, and I wouldn't be surprised if Windows Phone and iOS owe a similar amount of features to these skins as well.

 

Having these things in stock Android instead of OEM skins is a lot better though, because it gives developers a single API to target and it will work on all phones.