What's new in O? >Background limits: Improved battery life and speed >Notification channels - TL;DR notifications can be grouped into categories >Autofill APIs - Native support for password manager apps >PIP for handsets and new windowing features >Font resources in XML >Adaptive icons >Wide-gamut color for apps >Connectivity - Neighbor Awareness Networking, devices can communicate without the need for a wireless cacess point >Keyboard navigation >AAudio API for Pro Audio >WebView enhancements >Java 8 Language APIs and runtime optimizations >Partner platform contributions
I was telling myself that I'd be happy with my phone's software (Android N) and I wouldn't really care much about any further versions. This announcement basically solidified that precognition. I'm already perfectly content with N. None of these features really stick out to me. >>Background limits: Improved battery life and speed my battery life is already fine >>Notification channels - TL;DR notifications can be grouped into categories that's just integrating a feature into the system that most apps already had their own system for. it'll be nice, but I really don't care much. >>Autofill APIs - Native support for password manager apps THIS is the only feature I'm actually looking forward to. That'll be quite nice. >>PIP for handsets and new windowing features splitscreen works fine for this. this'll probably only be useful on tablets. >>Font resources in XML I don't quite understand what this mean... >>Adaptive icons it'll be interesting to see how this ends up. will the user be able to choose if they want a circular or normal icon, or will the device choose for them? how "adaptive" are we talking here? >>Wide-gamut color for apps whatever >>Connectivity - Neighbor Awareness Networking, devices can communicate without the need for a wireless cacess point I don't know enough about this to comment. >>Keyboard navigation once again, useful for tablets. >>AAudio API for Pro Audio I'm not a musician. >>WebView enhancements okay >>Java 8 Language APIs and runtime optimizations okay >>Partner platform contributions okay
So, yeah, Android seems to be have gotten as good as it's gonna get for phones. most of these features are either small or tablet/Chromebook focused.
Jaxson Foster
This update is obviously focusing on developers, and not for end users.
Mason Lopez
true
Nicholas Kelly
>Connectivity - Neighbor Awareness Networking, devices can communicate without the need for a wireless cacess point So how long before somebody creates a botnet that abuses this feature?
Julian Anderson
Will the Moto G5 Plus get this?
Henry Bell
Did you purchase it from your carrier?
Isaac Martinez
Planning on getting it unlocked from Amazon, actually.
Hunter Diaz
it will almost definitely get this. If, on the off chance it doesn't, there will probably be custom roms available. I'd recommend waiting a few months before buying any phone just to make sure it has an active dev community.
Henry Ward
>Oreo When they missed the perfect opportunity of Android Nutella? It's gonna be Android Oatmeal most likely
Kayden Morris
Nutella is trademarked. It's possible that they got a deal with Nabisco to use the Oreo name.
Landon Peterson
Hmm I seem to recall hearing this line before
Caleb Ortiz
What's wrong with that?
Ryan Flores
>tfw still on marshmallow
Sebastian Wood
GOOGLE WON
Caleb Murphy
My Galaxy s7 just got Nougat about a month ago. Fuck everything.
Jonathan Powell
Oh user, all those cool API changes that devs ignore again because they only make apps for Gingerbread or better.
Jace Gray
>Wide-gamut color for apps >whatever
that's pretty fucking big
Jacob Perry
it´s called Feem. A cool app for transfer huge files without need access point, everybody in my college use.
Easton Garcia
>Thoughts? Sounds gay.
Alexander Murphy
Wont really matter because Android O will have like 1% market share.
Thomas Perez
normies use shitty apps that send tracking data to facebook servers and others and that eats their battery. android with only good software installed works fine.
Android O will have wireless mesh capabilites it seems.
Cameron White
except it wont, it's just a marketing blogpost about feature no. 99999999999 that nobody will ever use and disable when setting up a phone because it drains the tiny analdroids battery in 30 minutes
u know its true
Jaxson James
I still use a phone on Android 2.3.3
Ryder Clark
Did they fix the bug in nougat that courses the cpu to spin and force you to reboot the phone?
Alexander Price
sadly no
experienced the same issue
Nicholas Hughes
Yeah, and random reboots
Daniel Miller
Post screenshot
Hunter Richardson
It could become popular once apps make use of it.
Joseph Gonzalez
...
Chase Barnes
Fun fact. You can stop background processes from raping your phone by disabling them from the developers options. Chink ROMs already do this.
Nolan Jenkins
Oh look, they're finally realizing apple was right about background work all along.
Only did they implement their restrictions way too late. Every Android app already learned to hog the user's battery from the background.
Dominic Sullivan
Which settings?
Elijah Garcia
PROBABLY THE ONE WITH """""""""BACKGROUND...""""""""""" IN THE SETTINGS NAME PHAMALAM
Charles Scott
Which kernel version does it use?
Jaxon Sanchez
It's gunna be Oatmeal Cookie.
Charles Gutierrez
Did they really need to switch to Android O for this? I understand it's just Android 8, but the unique names they give it make it seem like a bigger deal than it is.
Then again, I'm still waiting for Android 7 on my Samsung Galaxy S7...
Saw this on Reddit already, which is where Sup Forums gets its content form anyways (hypocrites), and don't have much to add. It's neat that they're trying to crack down on developers, though.
I thought it was Orange due to the colors they're using, but maybe that's just a teaser.
Dominic Cox
>It's neat that they're trying to crack down on developers, though. You phrased this as if the developers did something bad
Samuel Wilson
I don't know about "bad", but maybe overstepping their boundaries is a better word for it.
Such as the thing they're doing with location and limiting background use. Developers seemed to have taken the lazy approach and just hoped for the best. This will require them to actually figure things out.
In fact, for some applications, they will be required to completely redesign the system. Such as Facebook, hopefully. Or maybe even Snapchat.
Ayden Wright
Snapchat is goddamn atrocious on Android, I hope they do something about it.
Samuel Baker
fag
Cooper White
>tripfag calling someone else a fag
Gavin Miller
>using normiechat gas yourself.
Joseph Perry
O(n^n)
Isaac Sullivan
>improved battery life Why do people keep falling for this meme?
Jaxon Evans
It's not a meme. My Android marshmallow device lasts almost an entire day longer than my old kitkat device did.
Ryder Brooks
Found the jew.
Landon Fisher
They keep bringing out new android versions when only like %5 have nougat. This is just another planned obsolescence isn't it.
Jacob Morris
All Google can do is provide the OS. And breaking changes like the ones they are making here require bumping the major version.
It's not their fault the goyim will go to the cheapest merchant they can find, even if said merchant brings out a new product every week and immediately drops support for all goyim who only have the "old" version.
Asher Russell
>release new os every year >OEMs refuse to update old devices to force you to upgrade to their overpriced garbage
iOS is the only way to go and i fucking hate apple.
Matthew Mitchell
WHY THE FUCK CANT THERE BE A GODDAMN CLEAN VERSION OF ANDROID FOR EVERYONE TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL ON THEIR PHONES
>keyboard navigation >only useful for tablets You forgot about phones with keyboard on them, user :^) Android O is gonna make things great
Adrian Ross
>Another minor iteration that brings little to the table >No news about Andromeda
Wake me up when Google or Apple start giving a shit about convergence instead of changing the notifications tray for the twelvth time
Asher Gray
Organic lentill soup
Joseph Ward
Wasn't Kitkat trademarked as well?
Bentley Ross
WAKE me up inside Can't wake up
Connor Wood
Ironically, all updates "focused on developers" seem to improve the user experience much more than any gimmicky feature the "user focused" updates introduce, i.e. the switch to ART.
Jaxson Wood
>more features >more botnet >less security
It's like Google doesn't care about closing their security issues.
