How is Android Nougat – DinSide

As with Apple also has Google released a new version of Android every autumn in recent years.

And tradition has it named after a dessert or confection – the new version is called Nougat, and then the successor Marshmallow, Lollipop, KitKat, Jelly Bean and all the others lick contractions.

Apple, for its part, uses ordinary numbers, and again this fall will iOS 10.

only Nexus yet

How quickly the various manufacturers update their phones and which models get the new Android version is highly variable.

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But one thing is certain – you have a Nexus phone of recent vintage, you will always be one of the first to get the new Android version. These phones run namely a “clean” version of Android as it comes from Google, without their own adaptations.

Want Android Nougat already today, you are in other words, need to have a Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 (all phones), Nexus 9 ( tablet), Nexus Player (TV adapter) or a Google Pixel C (laptops).

First off among other manufacturers seem to be LG’s upcoming V20; sequel to V10.

the update is rolled out by Google within the next few weeks to these devices, but there is a trick to jump the queue.

Subscribe to the beta program to jump the queue

by participating in the Android beta program you can test new versions before everyone else. Nougat edition of Android has been in beta since March this year, but if you join the beta program today, you get the completed version.

you do this by pointing your browser to Android beta program, sign in with your Google account and sign on the device; Thus, if you have one of the above.

REGISTER: By enrolling your device in Android beta program, you can access nougat within a few seconds. Photo: PÅL JOAKIM OLSEN more

When we tried, we got at least a notice of the update after only a few seconds, and it seems to be the final edition.

Afterwards you doing enough advised to notify the unit of the beta program again; at least if it is a device you use in your daily since beta release can often be unstable and may contain errors.

This is a new

So – what’s new in this edition of Android? Yes, a lot of things, but much of it is under the hood. Visually and functionally, it is not terribly much new that gets us to widen their eyes, but here are the essentials:

• Split screen
  Keeps you ever program switch button, adding the active application in the top half of the image, so that you can then which app to run in the other half. How much space each app takes up on the screen can be adjusted by dragging the divider in the middle.

  This is something other manufacturers have added that functionality for the longest, but it is now therefore available on all phones.

• quickly switch
  Pressing twice quickly on the same button, you switch instantly between the current and previous app.
• Less space use shortcuts
  to top notification bar is now shortcuts to WiFi, Bluetooth, and more made smaller, and you can also easily select which buttons to be there.
• easy switching between multiple languages ​​
  Hands what you write both Norwegian and English? Now you can add more languages ​​as default language so you can easily switch between them when writing SMS, emails and other things. It also works with AutoCorrect and such. Apropos Android now has 1,500 new emoji with Unicode 9.0 update.
• Reply directly from notification bar
  Notification field has gotten even more functionality in Nougat. Now you can respond to notifications directly from the notification bar without having to open the app first; For example, when you receive an SMS or Facebook message. Notifications from the same app will now be grouped, and you can tap in such a group to see more details.
• A lot little things here and there
  Other than that there is not very much you are going to discover at first glance, but there are a number of little things here and there, such as that each menu under settings have a quick recap (number apps installed, the remaining battery and the kind).

Better battery Life

Visually it is thus not terribly many news, but it’s also made changes to Android that you do not direct can see , but you definitely should note.

Doze feature introduced in Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) and works so that the phone uses less power when it is stationary. When providing the operating system partly grouping background activity from apps, so it occurs in batches, rather than continuously.

This feature is now extended so that it also turn to when your phone is in your pocket, or not is the direct use. It should improve battery life, according to Google.

Better game performance

Google introduces Vulkan in Android 7.0, which allows gamers to communicate more directly with the graphics chip. It enables game performance improves, there will be possible to offer even better graphics.

BETTER ON GAME: Vulkan in Android 7.0 make sure the game will flow even better than before . View more

Android 7.0 also comes Daydream. In practice this is basic support for VR (Virtual Reality), where you by putting your phone into a compatible eyeglass get the whole operating system in VR mode.

Mark however you then need a Daydream compatible phone (and a Daydream compatible glasses, and optionally a Daydream compatible controller). Currently does not apply some of the models on the market, so if you are very keen VR makes you may want to wait until the next round of top models.

Also security is updated to Android Nougat, including with encryption file level, security updates in the background and new enterprise features for those using Android phones at work.

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