Google has officially announced, yesterday afternoon, the name of the new version of its operating system for smartphones, Android 8.0 Oreo, and with it, they have explained the news that it will include.

After almost a year of speculation about what the name of the new version of Android would be, Google, in the absence of a few weeks for its deployment, has officially announced that the next name of its operating system will be: Android 8.0 Oreo. In keeping with Google's tradition of naming the Android versions after sweets and candies, this time it was the turn of the famous cookie brand, as it was previously Kit Kat.

For the lucky owners of a Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel Xl, Google Pixel C tablet; you are a member of the beta program, you can update to Android Orero today. If you are not in the beta program, you will still have to wait a few days or weeks to get hold of it. The rest of smartphones will depend on their manufacturer. The sooner they adapt Android Oreo to their customization layers, the sooner it can be updated. This process tends to take a long time, hence the Android fragmentation problem.

What's new in Android 8.0 Oreo

Each version of Android comes loaded with different novelties that improve both the performance and the battery life of the terminals, as well as the user experience.

Notification management

Notifications improved a lot with Android 7.0 Nougat, but they could be improved. Android Oreo has a more intelligent management of notifications, grouping by applications and by contacts. Also, Google has added the ability to remember a notification later, so that those notifications that we cannot read at the moment, will sound again later in the time that we have established. And finally, as some layers of customization and launchers already do, a notification counter has been added to the application icons.

Battery and performance improvement

Like every year, Google makes "big" improvements to its system in terms of battery life and performance. This year, Android Oreo has what it calls Fluid Experience. Which translates into an improvement in the performance and fluidity of our smartphones. As for the battery, Google has added a new improved background activity system, with three different levels of activity to better control consumption.

Mode Picture in Picture, smart text and auto-fill

Finally, the days when you couldn't use your mobile while playing a video are over. With mode Picture in Picture you can create a floating window where the video you were watching or the video call you were making will be played, all natively, since some layers already included this function.

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Another novelty is the inclusion of smart text selection. When we select a text to copy or share, Android Oreo will know if it is a phone number, an address, a name, etc; giving you different actions to perform. And along with this, auto-filling of text has been implemented natively, in the style of Google Chrome forms but throughout the system.

Conclusion

All these news that Android Oreo will bring are very good, but, the most important thing that this Android Oreo brings is Project Treble. A project that Google presented at the Google I / O this year, and which consisted of dividing the system into several modules so that modifications were easier to carry out and therefore mobiles were more accessible to updates, being more It is possible to end the famous fragmentation that Apple has managed to combat so well with its iOS.

Source: Android