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. Experience Android in a new dimension Vulkan API is a game changer with high-performance 3D graphics. On supported devices, see apps leap to life with sharper graphics and eye-candy effects. Enjoy your favorite apps in virtual reality With Virtual Reality mode, Android Nougat is ready to transport you to new worlds. Coming soon with Daydream-ready phones. Custom 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 fly - 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 personalize your Android device. Decide how your data is used, the way 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 cell 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 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.

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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. Find out more about Android Security. Introducing The New LG V20 The first new smartphone that comes with Android Nougat, straight out of the box. Coming soon. See all features. JIT compiler: The new JIT compiler improves runtime device performance, reduces the amount of storage space required for apps and makes app and system updates much faster. VR mode: With VR mode, Android Nougat is ready to transport you to new worlds.

Coming soon with Daydream and Daydream-ready phones. See apps spring to life with sharper graphics and eye-candy effects. Data saver: Limit how much data your device uses with Data Saver. Split-screen mode: Now you can multitask with ease. Run two apps side by side in split-screen mode — watch a movie while texting, or read a recipe with your timer open. Picture-in-picture mode: On Android TV, you can continue watching your current video while browsing or changing settings. Quick switch: Double tap the Overview button to switch between your two most recently used apps. Simply tap to view each alert. Direct reply: Direct reply lets you quickly reply to a message, directly from within the notification shade.

So, you no longer need to launch the app to send a quick response. Notification controls: When a notification pops up, just press and hold to toggle the settings. System usability improvements. Customisable Quick Settings: Rearrange your Quick Setting tiles so you can get to what you want faster. Quick Settings bar: Quick Settings has been redesigned so you can get faster access to top Quick Settings tiles directly in the notification shade. Improved Settings navigation: Find the right setting faster with an updated navigation menu in Settings. Settings suggestions: Within Settings, get suggestions for how to get even more out of your device. Emergency information: Emergency Information lets you add information such as name, blood type, allergies and an emergency contact so that emergency responders can view this information through your device's lock screen.

Lockscreen wallpaper: You can now have different wallpapers on your device's homescreen and lockscreen. Unicode 9 emoji: Bring your words to life with all-new emoji, including redesigned human emoji with multiple skin tones. Direct boot: When restarting your device, Direct Boot helps it start up faster and ensures that important communications still run. So before you even put in your password, you'll still get that important text message and hear your alarm clock ring. Seamless software updates: On select, new devices running Android Nougat, OS updates can download in the background, so you can go on with your day while your device syncs with the latest OS.

File-based encryption: Building on top of our security platform, Android Nougat introduces file-based encryption. By encrypting at the file level instead of the block level, Android can better isolate and protect files for individual users on your device. Scoped folder access: Apps can request access to specific folders that you can allow or deny access to just like app runtime permissions. This is a reduced-scope version of the Storage permission for Apps that only need access to certain folders. It can also allow Apps to request direct access to removable media on devices with that hardware. Trusted face: Trusted face, a part of Smart Lock, makes unlocking even easier thanks to a new face recogniser. The new recogniser is less sensitive to conditions like lighting, facial decorations eyewear, facial hair, etc. Available on select devices. Improved system backup coverage: More device settings are covered by Android Backup, including accessibility settings, run-time permissions for apps, Wi-Fi hotspot settings and Wi-Fi network restrictions.

Multi-locale support: Select multiple locales in Settings to tailor experiences for you, such as showing search results in multiple languages and not offering to translate web pages in a language you already know. New languages supported: Coupled with allowing you to select multiple languages preferences, Android Nougat allows you to select from new languages and 25 locales for commonly used languages such as English, Spanish, French and Arabic. This enables Apps to better support and understand your language preferences, even if your devices lacks official support for it. Set magnification gesture, font size, display size and TalkBack, straight out of the box.

Android 7. This document highlights what's new for developers. Make sure check out the Android 7. To learn more about the consumer features of Android 7. In Android 7. Especially on tablets and other larger-screen devices, multi-window support gives you new ways to engage users. You can even enable drag-and-drop in your app to let users conveniently drag content to or from your app — a great way to enhance your user experience. It's straightforward to add multi-window support to your app and configure how it handles multi-window display. For example, you can specify your activity's minimum allowable dimensions, preventing users from resizing the activity below that size.

You can also disable multi-window display for your app, which ensures that the system will only show your app in full-screen mode. For more information, see the Multi-Window Support developer documentation. Some of the changes include:. To learn how to implement the new features, see the Notifications guide. The JIT compiler complements ART's current Ahead of Time AOT compiler and helps improve runtime performance, save storage space, and speed up app updates and system updates. For example, ART maintains a profile of each app's hot methods and can precompile and cache those methods for best performance. It leaves other parts of the app uncompiled until they are actually used.

Besides improving performance for key parts of the app, profile-guided compilation helps reduce an app's overall RAM footprint, including associated binaries. This feature is especially important on low-memory devices. ART manages profile-guided compilation in a way that minimizes impact on the device battery. It does precompilation only when then the device is idle and charging, saving time and battery by doing that work in advance. One of the most tangible benefits of ART's JIT compiler is the speed of app installs and system updates. Even large apps that required several minutes to optimize and install in Android 6. System updates are also faster, since there's no more optimizing step. Android 6. Now in Android 7. Any time the screen is off for a period of time and the device is unplugged, Doze applies a subset of the familiar CPU and network restrictions to apps.

This means users can save battery even when carrying their devices in their pockets. Figure 3. Doze now applies restrictions to improve battery life even when the device is not stationary. A short time after the screen turns off while the device is on battery, Doze restricts network access and defers jobs and syncs. Turning the screen on or plugging in the device brings the device out of Doze. When the device is stationary again, with screen off and on battery for a period of time, Doze applies the full CPU and network restrictions on PowerManager. The best practices for adapting your app to Doze are the same whether the device is moving or not, so if you already updated your app to gracefully handle Doze, you're all set. If not, start adapting your app to Doze now. Project Svelte is an ongoing effort to minimize RAM use by system and apps across the range of Android devices in the ecosystem.

Background processing is an essential part of most apps. When handled right, it can make your user experience amazing — immediate, fast, and context-aware. When not handled right, background processing can needlessly consume RAM and battery and affect system performance for other apps. Since Android 5. Apps can schedule jobs while letting the system optimize based on memory, power, and connectivity conditions. JobScheduler offers control and simplicity, and we want all apps to use it. Another good option is GCMNetworkManager , part of Google Play Services, which offers similar job scheduling with compatibility across legacy versions of Android. We're continuing to extend JobScheduler and GCMNetworkManager to meet more of your use cases — for example, in Android 7. At the same time we're starting to deprecate some of the older patterns that can reduce system performance, especially on low-memory devices.

If your app is receiving these, take advantage of the Android 7. Take a look at the Background Optimizations documentation for details. A SurfaceView object's content position is now updated synchronously with the containing app content. One result of this change is that simple translations or scales of a video playing in a SurfaceView no longer produce black bars alongside the view as it moves. Starting with Android 7. Figure 4. Data Saver in Settings. Over the life of a mobile device, the cost of a cellular data plan typically exceeds the cost of the device itself. For many users, cellular data is an expensive resource that they want to conserve. Data Saver gives users control over how apps use cellular data and lets developers provide more efficient service when Data Saver is on. When a user enables Data Saver in Settings and the device is on a metered network, the system blocks background data usage and signals apps to use less data in the foreground wherever possible — such as by limiting bit rate for streaming, reducing image quality, deferring optimistic precaching, and so on.

Users can allow specific apps to allow background metered data usage even when Data Saver is turned on. All apps should check whether the user has enabled Data Saver and make an effort to limit foreground and background data usage. Vulkan is designed from the ground up to minimize CPU overhead in the driver, and allow your application to control GPU operation more directly. Vulkan also enables better parallelization by allowing multiple threads to perform work such as command buffer construction at once. Vulkan is only available to apps on devices with Vulkan-capable hardware, such as Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Nexus Player.

We're working closely with our partners to bring Vulkan to more devices as soon as possible. Figure 5. Quick Settings tiles in the notification shade. Quick Settings is a popular and simple way to expose key settings and actions, directly from the notification shade. We've added more room for additional Quick Settings tiles, which users can access across a paginated display area by swiping left or right. We've also given users control over what Quick Settings tiles appear and where they are displayed — users can add or move tiles just by dragging and dropping them. For developers, Android 7. Quick Settings tiles are reserved for controls or actions that are either urgently required or frequently used, and should not be used as shortcuts to launching an app.

For information about creating an app tile, see the reference documentation for Tile. The default SMS app, the default phone app, and carrier apps can read from and write to the blocked-number list. The list is not accessible to other apps. By making number blocking a standard feature of the platform, Android provides a consistent way for apps to support number blocking across a wide range of devices. Among the other benefits that apps can take advantage of are:. Additionally, carrier app integration through Android means that carriers can read the blocked numbers list on the device and perform service-side blocking for the user in order to stop unwanted calls and texts from reaching the user through any medium, such as a VOIP endpoint or forwarding phones. For more information, see the reference documentation for BlockedNumberContract. The phone app does this by implementing the new CallScreeningService , which allows the phone app to perform a number of actions based on an incoming call's Call.

Details , such as:. For more information, see the reference documentation for CallScreeningService. Apps can use a new API to get the user's selected locales and then offer more sophisticated user experiences for multi-locale users — such as showing search results in multiple languages and not offering to translate webpages in a language the user already knows. Along with multi-locale support, Android 7. It offers more than 25 variants each for commonly used languages such as English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. It also adds partial support for more than new languages. Apps can get the list of locales set by the user by calling LocaleList. To support the expanded number of locales, Android 7. Make sure that you test and verify that your apps working as expected with the new resource resolution logic. To learn about the new resource-resolution behavior and the best practices you should follow, see Multilingual Support.

If your app supports emojis, follow the guidelines below to take advantage of these emoji-related features. icu package. Migration is easy, and mostly entails simply changing from the com. icu namespace to android. If you are already using an ICU4J bundle in your apps, switching to the android. icu APIs provided in the Android framework can produce substantial savings in APK size. To learn more about the Android ICU4J APIs, see ICU4J Support. Starting with Chrome version 51 on Android 7. This approach improves memory usage on the device itself and also reduces the bandwidth required to keep WebView up to date as the standalone WebView APK will no longer be updated as long as Chrome remains enabled. You can choose your WebView provider by enabling Developer Options and selecting WebView implementation. You can use any compatible Chrome version Dev, Beta or Stable that is installed on your device or the standalone Webview APK to act as the WebView implementation. Starting with Chrome version 51 in Android 7.

We're looking for feedback on compatibility and runtime performance in N before enabling multiprocess WebView in a future version of Android.

For more information, see the reference documentation for CallScreeningService. See apps spring to life with sharper graphics and eye candy effects. Behavior changes. That's the typical question that we're not going to be able to answer with a few lines. Migration is easy, and mostly entails simply changing from the com. By default, apps that target Android 7.

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