Android 7.0 Nougat: Release, Features und News

Android 7.0 Nougat: Release, Features und News

Android 7.0 nougat is the successor of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. He brings the multi window mode, optimizes the power-saving features and embellished the animations. Here we show you the new features of Android 7.0 nougat.

Android 7.0 nougat: these smartphones and tablets will get the update
Android 6.0 Marshmallow: features and patches
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Android-nougat-release
Surface features
Child multitasking
Multi window
Night reading mode
The notification system is more complex
New Schnelleinstellungs menu
Revised Setup menu
Beautiful animations
Multilingual Menus
Technical innovations
Real Android-7.0-nougat apps
Quick start
Continue decreasing battery consumption
Virgin VR and daydream
Volcano API for better games graphics
No "Apps be optimized" more updates
New technologies
When will Android 7.0 nougat ready?
Android will be published in August or September 2016 nougat. The timeline provides the release in the third quarter of 2016. The developer preview of Android you can install you already on your nexus Smartphone nougat, because Google has now released the fourth release of the development version to download. How you install this developer release, we show you the separate article:

Android-nougat-update: Summary for smartphones and tablets
Android nougat: new interface features
In the following, we show what new features we have discovered in the Preview versions of Android 7.0 nougat.

Recently opened apps: overview is intelligent

The recents smarter and finally be equipped with a clear all button. Intelligent, because long-ignored cards automatically remove from the list.

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Finally, there is the often requested clear all button. / © ANDROIDPIT
Multi window mode

The use of the new multi window feature is easy. To tap the button for recently opened apps, touch one of the cards and bring them to the top of the screen. Tap then the second app, so that it is displayed on the lower half of the screen. Pushes the black bar in the Middle, to change the size ratio. To stop the split-screen mode, you need to hold only the soft button for the recently opened apps.

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Touches on the square for the multi-window-mode. / © ANDROIDPIT
The system UI tuner can you access to multi windowed mode change. Activate your enable split-screen swipe up gesture, needs to wipe her only from the bottom on the right navigation button. Then moves the active window in the upper third, while the lower two-thirds of the active apps on are tiled.

Night mode in the quick settings

The night mode finally slips in the quick settings on. The UI tuner item is therefore included in the circle of the official Android nougat features. It works similar like the iOS 9.3 feature:, activate the mode, the blue tones are lowered. The image becomes a reddish tinge and and to work less tiring in the evening hours.

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You must first get the night mode from the additional quick settings out. / © ANDROIDPIT
You can press and hold also the Schnelleinstellungs button for the night mode. In the underlying configuration, you can set that night mode is automatically activated. This automatic expires after which parameters, is not clear but.

New prioritization of the notifications

The notification system introduced with Android lollipop receives a new priority level. Previously, you could classify app notifications in five categories and determine when and how the notifications should be shown you. This gradation was resorted in the second developer preview and their meanings have changed slightly.


Android police faces old and new sorting:

Here are the 5 full importance settings from the first dev Preview:

Blocked - never show these notifications
Low importance - silently show at the bottom of the notification list
Normal importance – silently show these notifications
At notifications list high importance - show the top of the and make sound
Urgent importance - peek onto the screen and make sound.
And the new 6 full importance settings from dev Preview 2:

Blocked - never show these notifications
Min importance – silently show at the bottom of the notification list
Low importance - silently show these notifications
Normal importance - allow these notifications to make sounds
High importance - peek on to the screen and allow sound
Urgent importance - show at the top of the notifications list, peek onto the screen and allow sound.
New quick settings

Finally, your also in stock Android you can edit the entries in the quick settings. Previously, that was only in the user interface of some Smartphone manufacturer. Now, this flexibility is a native feature of Android. In addition, the first five quick settings are displayed you the notifications.

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The first five quick settings are accessible after first wiping. / © ANDROIDPIT
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You can freely choose the entries and sort. / © ANDROIDPIT
In the long term it should become easier for app developers and phone manufacturers to place their own entries in the quick settings. Thus, the functionality of this part of the Android's interface is finally significantly upgraded. App developers should use them for their apps. That led to Google in some versions of preview with the calculator app. The special thing about it: So launched apps can be also operated without to unlock your phone.

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The computer is used as an example for the new Quicksettings API. / © ANDROIDPIT
Better structure and proposals in the settings

The Setup was finally better structured: all main entries of the settings can summon at any time from the left. Go in a child menu item, come this way faster in a different heading. Furthermore, proposals are in the top two places you, so that you hit on frequently accessed settings there.

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Reorder settings and there are proposals. / © ANDROIDPIT
The settings provide significantly more information at a glance. Already in the first overview, you can see the basic guide to data usage, volume, installed apps and more.

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The Android-N settings provide more info at a glance. / © ANDROIDPIT
Better animations

The quick settings are now even more beautiful animated. The new, constantly visible quick settings in the first row move now against each other in the view, since Android L.


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Multilingualism

At the same time, you can set nougat more than a system language from Android 7.0. This caused on our test device for a rather odd behavior after we had English as primary and German as a secondary language. The main level of the settings was then still displayed on German were the menus, however, including in the English language.

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Sounds volume vs. wrestler... Android is nougat to bilingual teaching. / © ANDROIDPIT
Technical innovations in Android 7.0 nougat
API-level 24: Finally real Android-nougat-apps

Google draw the line when developing new programming interface for Android nougat. Thus, also the Entwicklerungsumgebung is finally able to package apps against the so-called API level 24 for the play store. For you this means: native Android-nougat-apps play store.

Typically, apps in beta channels are the first using new system features. WhatsApp, Facebook, Nova Launcher or Spotify are well-known apps with beta programs. Registers you for the betas, if your Android uses 7.0 nougat and sends us an early screenshots if you can see the new features.

Faster start

We have had to compete against two nexus 6 p; the first Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and the other with the first developer preview of Android nougat. Both devices were encrypted hardware and had installed about the same many apps. The test device with Android was actually more quickly ready for operation when the marshmallow-nougat.

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