What is android nougat

Made for you

With more ways to make Android your own, Android Nougat is our sweetest release yet.

The OS that speaks your languages

Bring your words to life with updated and entirely new emoji, and the ability to use two or more languages at the same time.

Over 1500 emoji including 72 new ones

Multi Locale language settings

Be in two places at once

Now you can switch between apps with a double tap, and run two apps side by side. So go ahead and watch a movie while texting, or read a recipe with your timer open.

Multi-window view

Quick switch between apps

Experience Android in a new dimension

Vulkan™ API is a game changer with high-performance 3D graphics. On supported devices, see apps spring to life with sharper graphics and eye-candy effects.

Vulkan version of Need for Speed™ No Limits, available on Google Play

Enjoy simple, high quality virtual reality

With VR mode, Android Nougat is ready to transport you to new worlds. Available on Daydream-ready phones.

Keep on keeping on
with a smarter battery

Doze on the Go

Doze now helps save battery power even when you’re on the move. So your device will still go into low power usage while you carry it in your pocket or purse.

Stay in the moment

Android Nougat makes it easier to take action in the moment, with more personalised settings and smarter notifications.

Customised Quick Settings

Rearrange your Quick Setting tiles so you can get to what you want faster.

Notification Direct Reply

Mini conversations within your notifications let you reply on the go – without opening any app.

Bundled notifications

See what’s new at a glance with bundled notifications from apps. Simply tap to expand and view more info without having to open the app.

More ways to make Android yours

Android Nougat opens up more ways for you to personalise your Android device. Decide how your data is used, the way that you’re notified and what your display looks like.

Data Saver

Limit how much data your device uses with Data Saver. When Data Saver is turned on, apps in the background won’t be able to access mobile data.

Notification Controls

When a notification pops up, just press and hold to toggle the settings. For instance, you can silence future alerts from an app in the notification itself.

Display size

Not only can you change the size of the text on your device, but the size of the icons and the experience itself.

Security is at the heart
of all that we do

Your safety and privacy are important. As always, Android is built with powerful layers of security and encryption to keep your private data private. With Android Nougat, we’ve also added new features.

Seamless Updates

On select new devices, software updates download in the background, so you won’t have to wait while your device syncs with the latest security tools.

File-based encryption

By encrypting at the file level, Android can better isolate and protect files for individual users on your device.

Direct Boot

Starting your device is faster and apps run securely even before you enter your password.

The New LG V20

The first new smartphone that comes with Android Nougat, straight out of the box. Coming soon.

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Android Nougat: Everything you need to know

Android Nougat is Google’s way of refining what we already have and adding some essential features to an operating system they were already happy with.

The past two years have shown us how Google was shifting its design language on the phones it sells itself and the apps and services that come on your phone. Android itself has followed this trend, and with Marshmallow, we saw a flat but bold design that tied everything together.

Android Nougat doesn’t make major changes to the way your phone looks or the way it «feels», but what Google has done under the hood brings some new features — and much-needed polish — to our favorite smartphone operating system.

Android Nougat makes updates faster and easier

When it’s time for your phone or tablet to get updated, you won’t have to do anything. While you’re doing the things you normally do all the hard work is done in the background — very similar to the upgrade experience on Chrome OS. The only thing you need to do is restart your phone to finish things up.

Here’s Google’s succinct explanation of the situation:

Android Nougat also adds some important new features to help keep users safer and more secure. Inspired by how Chromebooks apply updates, we’re introducing seamless updates, so that new Android devices built on Nougat can install system updates in the background. This means that the next time a user powers up their device, new devices can automatically and seamlessly switch into the new updated system image.

Changes to what’s called the run-time compiler also mean that you won’t have to wait as long while all your apps are optimizing once you do restart — we’ve all been there watching an «Optimizing . » screen for 30 minutes after an OTA update.

Multi-window multitasking

Sometimes when you’re doing two things at once it’s handy to be able to see them both at the same time. That’s what Multi-window is: more than one «window» on your phone’s screen.

We’ve seen a similar feature with the same name from Samsung (and to a lesser extent LG) for a while, but Google has built things in a way that any app will just work, without the developer — or you — doing anything special. The screen will be split 50/50 by default, and it’s quick to pull up different apps on the top and bottom on a phone or left and right on a tablet.

For devices with larger screens, there’s also a freeform mode that lets you change a window’s size and picture-in-picture mode is supported for apps running on Android TV.

Even better notifications

With Android Nougat, you can reply to your notifications directly from their spot in the tray. You won’t have to open the app or install anything extra, either. Once the folks who built your app support the feature, it will just work.

Don’t worry, though. When you need to see more or do more than just send a quick reply, you can still tap the notification to open an app and see everything. And with the better bundling of multiple notifications from the same app, you’ll be able to tell when you need to see everything even easier.

Your phone will feel faster and use less battery

Google’s «Project Doze» — its code name for ways to have your phone use less battery while it’s not in your hands with the screen on — that was introduced with Marshmallow has gotten a major update in Nougat. While it previously worked great while the phone was sitting still and not plugged in, now it works while it’s in your pocket or purse. How it does it hasn’t changed much; once your phone’s screen has been off for a while, it stops doing things in the background all the time and instead uses what Google calls «windows» to check for new messages or do things like update your location.

Better ways to manage memory and when (and how) apps can run in the background (Google’s «Project Svelte») mean that you won’t have as much unnecessary stuff happening when you weren’t expecting it to happen. By only allowing things that you really need to run, your phone will perform better and use less battery.

Using less mobile data

Overage charges from your phone company suck. With Android Nougat new tools can help keep them from happening.

When you’re on a metered connection (one that’s not unlimited) — cellular or Wi-Fi — the new Data Saver setting can block background random data usage and restrict things like checking for tweets or emails so that your phone uses less data.

You can tell Data Saver to ignore certain apps, and while it’s active you’ll have an icon in your notifications to let you know what’s up.

More human emoji

In addition to 72 new glyphs, Android 7.0 has over 1,500 emoji, many of which have been revamped to look a bit more. human. Traditionally, Android emoji have been cartoony, which has encouraged other manufacturers like Samsung and LG to write their own.

More: Nougat changes Android’s emoji to look like people

Improved security

Keeping your data private and personal is important. New features in Android Nougat make things even more secure.

When you start your phone, some apps are able to partially work before you sign in with your password or PIN. Things like the actual phone app or your text messages can still come in, your alarm will still work and any accessibility features needed to better interact with your phone can still run. Other apps and their data will remain unavailable and/or encrypted.

Once you sign in, everything will work normally.

This feature helps keep your data safe if your phone gets lost or stolen, and synergizes well with the remote features of Android Device Manager.

With Android Nougat, you can give an app access to a certain folder (like your picture library) without letting it have access to all of your external (SD card) storage.

Only granting permission to the folders an app needs to function is the best practice when it comes to security. Scoped directories do just that.

For apps targeted for Android Nougat, the geolocation API is allowed over secure origins (over HTTPS.) This policy is designed to protect users’ private information when they’re using an insecure connection.

Android For Work

If you use your personal Android phone on the job through a managed system, changes are coming.

For us, things will mostly look and act the same — but better tools and easier ways to set things up mean your IT guy might not be so busy (or so grumpy) and everyone’s information will be safer and more secure.

The things we could see, like not being able to use an app we love on company time or being forced to a certain network, depend on what your company needs and how they have things set up. Be sure to go over any questions with your hopefully less-grumpy IT guy if you have them.

Language and locale

If you have your phone set to a specific region — let’s say the French-speaking portion of Switzerland — your phone will now try to use a similar region setting if it can’t find a specific match. In our example, that means an app can display text and numerical data for standard French instead of just using the default language settings if Swiss localization wasn’t included.

You can also select multiple languages (or regionalizations of the same language) in an order of importance — if an app you’re using is localized for multiple languages you’ll see your top pick — if it’s set up for one but not all of your languages, it’ll pick the highest one it can.

Android TV recording and Picture-in-Picture

Basic DVR functionality is coming to Android TV with 7.0. Besides basic controls like Play or Rewind, you’ll be able to save multiple sessions. This means you can schedule recordings or record as you watch. With Picture-in-picture support you’ll also be able to go into the settings to schedule a recording without missing any of your show.

This should be a great feature for Televisions that come with Android TV installed.

New accessibility features

Not all of us are the same and have the same needs. Better accessibility features in Android Nougat make it easier for everyone to be able to use their phone.

New ways of zooming in on what you see on your screen or adjusting the size of text make a big difference for folks who need them and bringing accessibility features like TalkBack and a custom display resolution to the initial setup process means it’s easier to get started, too.

New features in Android 7.1

Android 7.0 ushered in all the above features. Android 7.1, which shipped with the Google Pixel phones and subsequently came to the Nexus lineup, brings a couple of interesting new tidbits to the fore.

In particular, users can take advantage of rounded icons on the Pixel Launcher home screen, along with app shortcuts. And Android 7.1.1 adds support for so-called Image Keyboards — things like GIF keyboards — which are very fun and quite useful.

This post was originally published in August 2016. It was updated in January 2017 with information about Android 7.1.1.

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Обычный Android против упрощённого Android Go для дешёвых смартфонов: в чем различия

Android Go — это обычный Android, разработанный и оптимизированный специально для недорогих смартфонов с 2 ГБ оперативной памяти или меньше. По словам разработчиков, приложения на такой ОС открываются на 15% быстрее, чем на обычной. В конце концов, здесь нет «наворотов», которые добавляют тяжёлые сторонние оболочки, зачастую замедляющие работу смартфона.

Ещё важно то, что Android Go не «поставляется» напрямую от Google — по данным Android Authority, система дорабатывается отдельными производителями и в таком виде устанавливается на девайсы. За выпуск обновлений также отвечает конечный вендор.

Представленная в 2018 году «облегчённая» система постоянно совершенствуется. Она регулярно пополняется некоторыми фишками «старшего собрата». В этой статье я сравнил чистую версию «зелёного робота» с упрощённой Android 10 Go на Nokia 1.4 и выделил наиболее значимые отличия.

Интерфейс: различий мало

Различия во внешнем виде обеих систем минимальны. Шторка уведомлений и быстрых настроек, сами настройки и уведомления в Android Go выглядят точно так же, как и на старшей версии Android 10.

Меню приложений выглядит аналогично, за исключением отсутствия панели рекомендуемых программ.

А вот список недавних приложений намного проще: превью меньше, закрывается софт свайпом вправо, а не вверх, кнопка «Очистить все» находится в самом низу, а не в левой части всего меню.

Фишки: Android Go приятно удивляет

Если сравнивать функционал двух систем, то разницу здесь найти тоже непросто.

Самое заметное отличие — навигация в системе. В Android Go недоступны жесты — только классическое управление тремя кнопками.

Кроме того, упрощённая ОС не даёт возможности добавлять ярлыки из Google Chrome на рабочий стол. Зато в Android 10 Go есть системная тёмная тема и даже раздел «Цифровое благополучие», в котором можно отслеживать время, проведённое в том или ином приложении.

В остальном же упрощённая система даже получила мелкие фишки вроде возможности делиться паролем от сетей Wi-Fi с помощью QR-кода.

Немаловажен тот факт, что на смартфон с Android Go предустановлены специальные версии приложений от Google: «Галерея Go», Google Go, Files, Camera Go. Они обладают урезанным функционалом и более простым дизайном, но потребляют меньше ресурсов. Ничто не мешает установить полноценные аналоги этих программ — они доступны к скачиванию из Play Store.

Личный опыт использования: упрощения почти незаметны

На самом деле, Android Go мало чём отличается от обычного «зелёного робота». Больше всего, конечно, не хватает жестового управления. В остальном же обычная ОС без лишений, только некоторые упрощённые меню периодически напоминают о том, что я пользуюсь бюджетным смартфоном. Go-приложения вполне удобные, лично меня огорчило только отсутствие синхронизации c Google Photo. Но, как я говорил выше, я могу установить полноценную версию программы и пользоваться ей. Приятно, что смартфон с 3 ГБ ОЗУ может держать десяток различных приложений в фоне — думаю, в этом тоже заслуга Android Go.

Вывод

Сравнивая бок о бок полноценный Android и Android 10 Go, сложно найти кардинальные отличия. «Облегченная» система почти полностью повторяет интерфейс и функционал обычной ОС. Разница лишь в количестве предустановленных приложений, дизайне некоторых системных меню и наличии незначительных фич. Основная работа была проведена «под капотом» — улучшили менеджмент памяти, добавили специальное шифрование, уменьшили вес системы.

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