Final Developer Preview Released Of Android 7 "Nougat"

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 18 July 2016 at 01:17 PM EDT. 14 Comments
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Dave Burke, VP of Engineering for Android at Google, announced the final developer preview today of Android 7.0 "Nougat". This marks the last milestone release before the public rollout of Android 7.0 devices later this summer.

Today's Android 7.0 Nougat Developer Preview 5 release ships with the final APIs, the latest system behavior and UI changes, and various bug fixes and optimizations.

Android 7.0 has been working on Doze on the Go, background optimizatioms, security/permission improvements, developer multi-window support, and a range of other new features.

More details on this near-final release of Android 7 Nougat via android-developers.blogspot.com.
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