developer Android Nougat Developer Preview 5 The fifth preview of latest Android Nougat mobile for developers is available for download now. We look at the new tweaks and key features of this eagerly awaited mobile OS – Raj Kumar Maurya

ndroid Nougat looks a lot like With this feature, you are able to run or use two apps Marshmallow but under the layer, you will simultaneously. By the way, this feature is already being find lots of tweaks and improvements. The used by some other brands such as LG and Arelease date for which has been confirmed Samsung, as they have integrated this option in their for Q3, 2016. custom skin a few years back. Stock Multi-Window feature Here are all the major new features that we expect in Android tablets could be something which is really to see in the final version. Compatibility mode. beneficial for an enterprise. You can resize the windows of simultaneously opened apps on-the-fly. There’s also a new Compatibility mode picture-in-picture mode option for Android TV that works Right now, Android N Developer preview 2 is just like minimized video in YouTube. available only for Nexus devices but it will be soon available for other devices. So, if you have a Nexus Direct Reply notifications device you can flash it manually to experience the new features of “N”. After flashing, if you wish to receive OTA updates then you need to enroll your device into the Android Beta Program. You can enroll your device at any time to receive the next preview update over the air.

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Multi-window mode

Android N is now going to save your time when you are in a hurry or in some meeting. This new feature is called Direct Reply. Through this, you won’t need to jump or leave your current window to answer an incoming message. What you instead need to do is to tap on the notification reply button that appears at the top of the screen. This feature will prove to be a great benefit for a messenger like WhatsApp.

New quick settings menu Nowadays, 3 GB or 4 GB RAM is easily available on the Previously, if you want to switch on/off your Wi-Fi, smartphone. But of what use is such high memory or to access any other shortcut, you were if you are not able do to true multitasking? Google required to pull the notifications bar down two times to has included this unexpected feature in Android reveal the quick settings menu. But now, you get a new N to fulfill high memory availability—Multiscreen. and stylish quick settings menu on the top. It looks like

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the one Samsung, LG, and some other custom Android manufacturers use.

Bundled notifications Google also announced that the notifications card’s form will group together with the same app. For example, if the notifications come from WhatsApp, then it will be grouped together and to know who has sent , you can expand them into individual notifications by using the two-finger gesture or by tapping the all-new one expansion button.

Google has added two new features to manage the background running applications. In stock Android, if you want to close all background running applications, you need to tap on the multitask button from the navigation bar and swipe all running background applications one by one to kill them. But in Android N, Google simplifies this process by adding a Clear All option at the top of the multitasking menu. This option allows you to close all applications running in the background with a single tap. The second feature is, if you double tap on the recent multitasking button on the navigation bar then it will let you jump back to the previous application. Beside all these major changes Google appears to have introduced a new platform based on Android. This will be a great effort from Google and will give a great push to and it successor. Via Google’s Daydream VR platform all applications such Play Store, Street View, YouTube and many others will support VR. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] AUGUST 2016 PCQuest 73