What's New in Android O

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Android O brings several changes to existing features as well as all new features. With the first developer preview of Android O, we get a glimpse of some of the new features we can expect when it's released later this year. Google also tells us that this is just a few of the things we can expect with the next version of Android

BACKGROUNDLIMITS

Android O brings several changes to existing features as well as all new features. Since it first arrived in 2008, Android has been a very fluid bit of software. The mobile space is always evolving and Android has evolved along with it so it could meet the needs of people like us who use it every day.

With the first developer preview of Android O, we get a glimpse of some of the new features we can expect when it's released later this year. Google also tells us that this is just a few of the things we can expect with the next version of Android.

ADAPTIVEICONS

The Google Pixel Launcher brought adaptive icons, and now Android supports them systemwide and natively.

Options can be given for different shaped masks that define the outside border (think squircles) and icons can be animated. Adaptive icons will be supported in the launcher, shortcuts, device Settings, sharing dialogs, and the app overview screen.

NOTIFICATIONCHANNELS

Android N brought a new framework for notifications and ways for developers to use it so we get more information in a space where real estate is at a premium.

With Android O Google is introducing new Notification channels: grouping notifications together by their type. Notifications are still managed by the app that delivers them, but users can control how things are displayed on a per-channel basis. This way we can decide things like how a news app notifies us or a music player shows a persistent notification. Notification channels is a new way for us to control the rich notifications that Android apps bring to us.

PICTUREINPICTUREFORHANDSETS

Google is moving PiP display support to Android phones.

Currently, Android TV has a native PiP display method but handsets use a standard multi-window view versus an overlay. With the new way of doing things, and apps can be designed so that the supplementary window is strictly for content and controls or other bits of app chrome can be placed elsewhere.

This also brings a new way to handle screen overlays and methods for a device to launch an app or activity (a portion of an app) on a remote display.

SOURCE -android central