Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

Google Releases Early Developer Preview Of "Android N"

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 9 March 2016 at 01:25 PM EST. 14 Comments

In a surprise move and while Android Marshmallow adoption isn't yet too great, the first developer preview release of Android N is now available.

Google released an early developer preview of Android N today. Android N so far offers improved notifications, a split-screen view for some level of application multi-tasking, a picture-in-picture mode, more power-saving improvements, and more. Additional features for Android N are still expected with this just being a very early developer preview.

Today's Android N developer preview can be downloaded via the factory images page while the Android beta page is still 404'ing as of writing this quick article.

14 Comments

Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs

Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability

Chrome 121 Adds New CSS & WebGPU Features

The Mainline Linux Kernel To Finally Support The Google Tensor GS101 SoC & Pixel 6

Chrome 120 Released With Theora Support Evaporating, Adds WebGPU & CSS Improvements

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.