Reduction in the use of resources and battery on behalf of apps running in the background.
Compatibility with multiple screens to connect our phone to an external monitor.New range of emojis and emoticons to be used in our instant messaging and social network apps.Option to automatically activate reliable WiFi networks even when disabled.Smart text selector to carry out actions on the marked text in the corresponding app.Changes to the way we manage the installation of APKs from unknown sources.Possibility to add our own ringtones and notification sounds.Renovation of the settings bar and quick settings menu.Autofill system for usernames and passwords inherited from Google Chrome.Notification dots that appear next to the icon of each application.Hierarchization of notifications granting priority to the most important ones.
Possibility to postpone notifications and schedule when we wish to receive them. Notification channels to configure which notifications we want to receive from each app. New 2-layer adaptive icons to normalize the logos of different apps. Picture in Picture (PiP) mode: tiny floating window with videos whilst we use another app in full-screen mode. Main features and functions of Android 8 OreoĪs we said before, this implementation of Android comes along with a long list of new features focused on making the most of our phone's performance and that we can summarize in the following features: The successor of Android 7 Nougat is finally here.īut beyond the name that has had us worried over the last few months (especially since the first developer preview was released back in March of 2017), this new version of the most popular mobile platform in the world is full of new features to turn it into the smartest, most powerful, and fastest mobile OS at present and that intends to wipe out the so-called Android fragmentation once and for all thanks to the Treble project. After speculating about the possible name of the sweet, candy or chocolate that would come along in this version of Android, we now know that it will be officially called Android 8 Oreo, as a tribute to one of the most famous cookies in the world, that cream sandwich with two round chocolate biscuits. 
We finally know one of the best kept secrets to the date: the name of the new version of Google's mobile operating system that until now was simply known as Android O.
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