Android N dev preview

Man my phone and tablet just got Lollipop, will probably never get Android M/6.0, and now 7.0 is already out as a preview. :\

 

My BlackBerry Priv is still on Lollipop and we just dying to get Marshmallow. This will probably never come to BlackBerry.

 

My Note 3 is still on kitkat and I have no intentions to update to Lolipop, doesn't bring anything new I want and breaks few other things along the way (was my wife pissed at me for updating her phone to Lollipop) . I actually don't remember when was the last time I updated something and was blown away by improvements: it wasn't the Win 7 to Win8 to Win 8.1 to Win 10 for sure and neither was Android updates. Grass always looks greener on the other side, but it really isn't.

 

Lollipop was more of a UI change and smoothing/polishing Android animations. Marshmallow is a huge jump with Doze, individualized app permissions, Google Now on tap, and more fingerprint API stuff. Lollipop and Android N are more evolutions where as 4.x/6.0 are more revolutions.

 

I'm still on KitKat due to xposed modules working on it and root being easy to achieve... Can set app permissions etc... Through root.

 

I'm excited for split-screen multitasking on my Nexus 9.

 

Samsung can't even seem to push Marsh... I wish I never dropped my nexus 6....... I will be flashing my nexus 7 if I ever get the energy to do it... I have stuff going on that makes me exhausted and such... I didn't even remember I had the 7 until just now.

Edit:
I just watched the video... Apple is losing to Google this year. I'm impressed and that's not easy to do right now... Multiwindow was a Samsung idea that never worked right... Google just destroyed third party skins because they finally implemented everything anyone could want... I see a lot of iPhone and other iOS devices being dumped en masse in the near future unless Apple can finally make their devices more appealing which means they'll have to kill both their insane control and match Google. I've always been a fan of HTC because Sense was so light and unlocking your phone meant going to the website and getting a code. Google finally has an OS that makes iOS an embarrassment and its not even finished. Google will also probably implement what they've wanted to for years - the end of fragmentation. When the investors start seeing what Google did, stocks will plummet because none of us have a reason, besides the Note, to buy custom skins anymore. Should be an interesting year...

 

Nice. I have the oldest Android phone at home (One M8, amongst a Note 5, Galaxy S6 and G4) and oddly enough, I have the newest software: Sense 7 running on Android MM 6.0. HTC has never failed to deliver on its updates; that and Sense being the best non-stock Android skin ever developed are very good reasons to get an HTC phone. Too bad they can't market their phones for nuts.

 

I think I have that on my Note3 for at least 2 years, did they finally fix sd card access, or they kill it for good now?

 

And I had split-screen on my Galaxy S3 since 2012. I didn't say that this was the first implementation of split-screen multitasking in Android. It wasn't; Samsung and LG were ahead of vanilla Android in this respect, and I know it. It's just that I happen to own a device that has not had it until now but is a form factor where it would be genuinely useful.

 

I read this news earlier today i wonder what are the changes or the updates.

 

The big ones are improved Doze (which now reduces standby battery drain while in your pocket, not just stationary on a table) and split-screen multitasking. You can now do inline replies to notifications. There's also a bunch of UI tweaks, including improved quick-toggles and full-screen-width notifications (instead of the "card"-like design which arguably looked cleaner but wasted a lot of space).