Android Nougat introduces several new features including improved notifications, picture-in-picture video playback, split-screen multitasking, Vulkan graphics support, Daydream VR integration, standalone Allo and Duo messaging and video calling apps, improved Doze battery management, and seamless background app updates. Key additions are tweaked quick settings, expanded notifications, quick reply functionality, and multi-window multitasking options.
2. Android Nougat first embellishment , is its tweaked UI.
User can get instant control toggles on swiping down from the top of the screen, can
activate Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and more much quicker.
Notifications are now more space-efficient, occupying the width of the screen and
sporting smaller fonts.
These can then be expanded and dealt with from within the notification menu.
Google has enabled quick replies for
third partyapp developers.
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3. Android Nougat supports the ability to watch video in a pinned window in the corner
of the screen while another activity runs in the background.
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4. Quick Switch enables the user to instantly switch to last app used by double tapping
the Recent button.
There's also a Clear All button in the Recent menu. Surprisingly, this isn't present in stock
Android Marshmallow.
Google is bringing its own multi-window feature to Android Nougat through the Recent
menu. User needs to simply press the Recent button from within an app and can select a
second app to open alongside it, in a
split-screen view.
User can surf the web while simultaneously
messaging people.
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5. Android Nougat will adopt Vulkan API support, which should improve the quality of
gaming, VR, and other graphically intensive apps considerably on mobile.
Vulkan is designed as a replacement for OpenGL, and promises to make cross-plat-
form game development much easier and more streamlined.
The end result will be more timely, power efficient, and just plain better looking games
on Android smart phones and tablets.
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6. Android Nougat will be the OS where Google fully unleashes its VR plans.
Daydream is Google's new VR platform - a set of VR headset and controller hardware
standards allied to an Android Nougat-based UI that aims to make discovering and
consuming VR content much easier and smoother.
Google's really gunning for a tightly controlled hardware environment here, but from
2017, expect most new flagship phones to support Daydream.
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7. Two of the most exemplary additions in Android Nougat, will be the standalone Allo
and Duo apps.
Allo is Google's new messaging app which incorporates the company's formidable
search, machine-learning and security technologies. It lets the user to conduct web
searches and make bookings from within conversations.
Allo can also suggest replies to messages, based on what it understands from the
words and pictures that have been sent to you. For the tinfoil hat brigade, there'll be a
mode called "Incognito Chat", which activates end-to-end encryption for the messages,
and set messages to expire after a certain time, Snapchat style.
Duo, meanwhile, is Google's new video calling app,
which promises to make video calling as easy as
possible. Can be taken as Google's FaceTime.
User can do things like get previews of callers
before pick up (a feature called Knock Knock),
while calls will be optimised for usage on limited
bandwidth connections.
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8. Google has tightened up the operating system's core components, to the point where
the system requirements have actually dropped.
In addition, Google has worked on the Doze feature it introduced with Android
Marshmallow. Doze figured out when the phone isn’t being actively used and scaled
things back accordingly. This resulted in a dramatic improvement to battery life during
less busy periods.
In Android Nougat, Doze now works whenever the screen is off, not just when there's
a prolonged spell of inactivity.
App makers will also be able to reduce the
amount of background power they consume
in Android Nougat. Apps will install 75 percent
quicker, and take up 50 percent less space.
All in all, Android Nougat should be a lot less
of a system hog than previous versions.
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9. In Android Nougat, Google is introducing Seamless Updates.
This will enable two system images to be run simultaneously, essentially allowing you
to update an app in the background whilst you're using it.
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