The Android Nougat! What's new?

Thanks to Google, Android devices will be getting new power upgrades this coming fall.

The great online company has finally revealed that is coming generation would be called Android Nougat.

As we all know, the previous versions were also named after sweet treats: Marshmallow, Lollipop and KitKat.

Initially Google opened  suggestions for the name it was previously called Android N, and millions of voters submitted their choices.

There will be new cool features accompanying this coming version. And this brings the question...

When can I get Android Nougat?
Google will now begin rolling out the new software later this year, with the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X smartphones.

Other companies will then start rolling out Android Nougat to users, with the likes of Samsung, HTC and LG set to update users by the end of the year, or early 2017 at the latest.

Android N, or Android 7.0, will bring a number of long-awaited features. Among the new features are better battery life and power performance, thanks to the new Doze feature which is able to put your device into a low-power mode when it detects the phone isn't moving.

Also included in the new release is better support for virtual reality games and apps, linking in to Google's new Daydream VR headset, and a new night mode which will cut down on harmful light when using your phone late at night.

Split screen is here! On Android!
Android phones will now also support split-screen apps, so two apps will now be able to run side by side or one above the other, much like Apple's existing iOS feature.
Split-screen apps are one of many new Android Nougat features

Google has also tweaked how Android devices handle notifications, as the new Direct Reply feature lets users can quickly respond to text messages or update task lists directly within the notification interface. 

Notification bundle.
all of your text messages, Facebook prompts, calendar reminders will be lumped together when you drag down the notification shade.

Reduced time taken in app installation

Android's new version name is officially "Nougat"

Google has made it known to the public its next version of Android: Nougat. Great...


I'm my opinion Nutella would have sounded better or more exwouldg. I would have taken ‘New York Cheesecake,’ which is the codename Google used for the OS.

Some other users would have preferred "Nipples" but hey, Google has made its decision right?
In an interesting note, the company used Snapchat as a Medium to reveal the name for the first time. (yay Snapchat!)

It also showcased some of the other names that had considered, though it didn’t reveal if Nougat was one of the top choice in its pick-a-name user contest.

Anyway, that settles that. Now we just wait until Nougat is actually released sometime this fall.
Cheers.

Google emerges victorious in $9 Billion Android Trial

A US jury gave Google a noteworthy triumph on Thursday in a long-running copyright fight with Oracle Corp over Android programming used to run the majority of the world's cell phones.

The jury collectively maintained cases by Google that its utilization of Oracle's Java advancement stage to make Android was ensured under the reasonable use procurement of copyright law, concluding trial without Oracle winning any of the $9 billion (generally Rs. 60,350 crores) in harms it asked.

Prophet said it saw numerous grounds to advance and would do as such. "We firmly trust that Google created Android by illicitly replicating center Java innovation to hurry into the cell phone market," Oracle General Counsel Dorian Daley said in an announcement.

Letters in order Inc's Google in an announcement called the decision "a win for the Android biological community, for the Java programming group, and for programming engineers who depend on open and free programming dialects to construct creative shopper items."

The trial was nearly viewed by programming engineers, who dreaded an Oracle triumph could goad more programming copyright claims.

Google depended on prominent witnesses like Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to persuade hearers it utilized Java to make its own inventive item, instead of take another organization's licensed innovation, as Oracle guaranteed.

In the retrial at US District Court in San Francisco, Oracle said Google's Android working framework abused its copyright on parts of Java. Letters in order's Google unit said it ought to have the capacity to utilize Java without paying an expense under reasonable use.

A trial in 2012 finished in a halted jury.

Shares of Oracle and Alphabet were minimal changed in twilight exchange taking after the decision.

After the main trial, US District Judge William Alsup decided that the components of Java at issue were not qualified for copyright assurance by any stretch of the imagination. A government offers court differ in 2014, deciding that scripting language that associates programs - known as application programming interfaces, or APIs - can be copyrighted.

A surge of copyright claims has neglected to emerge in the two years since that government offers court administering, proposing Oracle's claim won't eventually widy affect the division.

Under US copyright law, "reasonable use" permits constrained utilization of material without gaining authorization from the rights holder for purposes, for example, research.

Amid retrial, Oracle lawyers regarded Google's guards the "reasonable use pardon."

source: Gadget 360