After several months of rumors and speculation about what could bring us Android N, the new version of the operating system is now available for developers. There is still some time left before we begin to receive it in our devices, since these days they are updating to Android 6 Marshmallow, Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. In any case, we can finally tell you officially, all the new arrivals that will arrive in the near future to our tablets and android mobiles.
It is still a version in development and testing, to which some changes will be made before its final arrival, but we can already reveal some details.
What's new in Android N
Split screen multitasking
If you have a Samsung tablet, you already know what we are talking about, because the Korean brand (and some others) had included it in their customization layers. In the new version of Android, we will be able to split the screen in two for work with two different applications at the same time. In this way, for example, we can have a text editor and a website open in the browser and see them both at the same time, natively in Android, not in user layers as before.
Direct response in notifications
From now on, if you receive a WhatsApp and want to answer it quickly, you won't need to enter the application, but you can do it directly from the notification bar. In principle, this option will appear automatically in Hangouts, although it is more than likely that applications such as the aforementioned WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook Messenger, adopt it sooner rather than later.
This option will be within a Completely revamped notification bar, although the reality is that this is the most important novelty that we will find in it. What we do not know is how each application and its services will adapt to this new option. For example, we don't know if when replying from the notification bar, the famous double blue check of WhatsApp or if the messages will continue to appear as unread.
Notifications grouped by app
From now on, if you have multiple notifications from the same app, they will appear to you grouped. This is much more comfortable for those who receive many notifications throughout the day or when we spend a long time without looking at the mobile, since all of us who know these situations know how crazy it can be to navigate between dozens of notifications.
Elimination of processes that affect autonomy
Battery life is one of the biggest problems with most smartphones. Android will try to improve this problem by elimination of all those processes that are not necessary and that is causing consumption to be greater than desired. Android N will have the ability to do so even when the mobile is in sleep mode, so that the autonomy improves considerably.
Java8 support
One of the best news that has come from the hand of Android N, is the fact that it will now offer Java8 support. This is excellent news for developers, who will now only have to adapt code from other applications, without having to completely rewrite it.
For the user, this will probably mean that some features of programs that were available for other platforms, but that had been left out of Android, due to the Java problem, can reach us in this way. whatever facilitate the work of developers to create new applications for us, always translates into a greater offer.
When will we see Android N?
As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, Google still plans to make some changes to Android N, so it won't be until End of the year, when you get to have a market share between mobile and tablet operating system, important enough.
As usually happens with updates, they will be distributed little by little and if you have an old Android device, without wishing to be doomed, it is likely that you will never see this version in your hands.
Can I try Android N now?
The developer version of Android N is available now, but only for Nexus devices. However, we have had news that has unpleasantly surprised us and that is that the Nexus 5 has been left out from the list of android phones, which can install this system. The models Nexus 5X, 6, 6P, 9, 9G, Player and Pixel C yes you can try now, this version for developers.
Which of the news Android N did you find it more interesting? Is there something you expected from the new version of the operating system that has not finally reached port? We invite you to share your opinion with us, in the comments section, at the bottom of this article.