Multi-window support. This long-awaited (and long-expected) new feature lets you run multiple apps on-screen at the same time or, more intriguingly, two different parts of the same app.
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Google typically releases the latest Android preview during its I/O developer conference held annually in May. Google will be incorporating the feedback that it receives over the course of the preview program into the development of Android N to have the operating system work as great as possible upon its final release.
A developer preview is a “work in progress” build that is released to app developers prior to a consumer rollout of the final software. That program has just kicked off and you can now register your Pixel C, or Nexus 5X/6P to get an OTA update to Android N.
Just a random Wednesday in March, and Google releases the first Android N developer preview.
There is also a new bundled notifications feature to allow users to group notifications from the same app together – for example individual messages from a messaging app.
Multitasking on Google Android N. It also support a picture-in-picture mode for devices like TVs, something that is particularly good for video playback.
Android N will introduce notifications that customers can reply to inside the notification itself. There are ton of new features, including a huge one we’ve been wanting for a while: multi-window support for phones and tablets. Android fans should note that Google explicitly advises against consumers installing this very early developer preview.
A power-saving mode called Doze was launched with Android Marshmallow, the current update, allowing users to keep their system in a sleep-like state in order to conserve battery life.
You may remain in the Android Beta Program beyond the N release to preview future Android N maintenance releases (MRs). This most welcome improvement allows users to reply to notifications from virtually any app without having to close the shade first, or open an app to view them. To install the Android N Preview through over-the-air updates similar to how regular updates are pushed out, users can sign up in the Android Beta Program.
Now that Android N is in the hands of developers and anyone else looking to flash the early Android N build on their Nexus devices, some testers have looked at the various new features that Android N will offer. “With Android’s Jack compiler, you can now use many popular Java 8 language features, including lambdas and more, on Android versions as far back as Gingerbread.
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As for Google’s name for the Android N version, it could be anything from Nuts to Nutella.
