At least, not suck entirely. We saw dynamic range adjustments improve the whole of the picture we Insta'd with the latest Android 8.1 developer preview.
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If you have a problem and happen to have forgotten your unlock code for some reason, you better hope you don't need a factory reset.
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Android app developers are being urged to work on their products and implement new APIs in time for Android O's final launch in mere months.
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An unreleased, but visible feature in the settings menu of Android O preview devices is a nifty little feature for those who turn Wi-Fi off often.
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The first developer preview has been released to the wild. We've played around with it for a day and let a somewhat depressing feeling sink in...
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Those on the Android Beta Program won't have access to this first Android O Developer Preview. A ton of new APIs and interface tweaks are here.
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The Pixel C finally gets a launcher of its namesake while the Nexus 6P finally gains something its lesser sibling could do since a while back.
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Developers will be able to address users' concerns (real or fake) directly as soon as iOS 10.3 takes hold in a few months' time.
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If you've linked up an Android Wear watch with an iPhone or iPad, you'll soon be able to get apps working more easily with this major update.
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How will Google steer itself in a post-Nexus era? Where it could call its phones its own (despite us knowing the original device manufacturer)?
Well, the answer is to make a couple of smartwatches and do business like it has done with the Nexus brand.
Product manager of Android Wear Jeff Chang spoke to The Verge about Google’s first two Android Wear flagship watches that will be made and solely branded by a manufacturing partner familiar to the platform — no “Google” or “Pixel” here.
In fact, he alluded to the Nexus smartphone program when talking about Google’s plot for smartwatches and argued against working with more partners for more wearables.
“We’ve enabled a lot of diversity with our hardware partners to target different types of consumers and preferences,” Chang said.
To that point, Google recently picked up staff from one of its newfound competitors, Cronologics.
That said, there’s definitely more to come from these partners in 2017. The “first-party” watches which will launch with an updated Android Wear operating system have a target launch time within the first quarter. Other OEMs will make announcements at CES in Las Vegas and at the jewelry-focused Baselworld in Switzerland late in March. We suspect that there will be a split between announcements from our “meat and potatoes” manufacturers and the more traditional and luxury watch brands. Google will back these releases as best it can.
For the rest of us waiting for Android Wear 2.0 on our current smartwatches, you can expect an update for the following products right after Google’s flagship announcement:
The update will also follow a fifth Developer Preview for the platform coming in January — a package that will feature Google Assistant and Android Pay on select NFC-enabled devices (take the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE). Android Wear 2.0 feature compatibility will be different between Android and iOS, but Android Pay will work universally.
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If you’re using your smartwatch as a smart replacement for your smartphone, you’re probably like many of us: not wanting to bother with our pockets so often. But alas, in the latest developer preview for Android Wear 2.0, we’ll find a few features that not only keep us tethered to our phones, but actually encourage us.
The encouraging factor? A new OAuth API that’ll give high-privilege Android Wear apps (which can soon be downloaded directly from the watch itself) one-tap approval through your Android phone or iPhone. You can even choose which Google account you’ll be using for the app.
If a standalone Wear app works better with a paired device, developers can now pop dialogues to get users to the Play Store to install the phone app.
Android Wear 1.0 apps that come pre-packaged with a general Android app will be separated. If users install the latter from the Play Store, they’ll be prompted through a notification to install it or they can head to a new section of the Android Wear Play Store called “Apps you’ve used” to download the Wear app.
Other changes include the return of the swipe-to-dismiss paradigm, the revised mapping of hardware buttons to “power,” action and navigation drawers, a curved interface and a screen burn-in protection function.
This is the fourth developer package for Android Wear’s major revision, with at least one more expected soon. Wear 2.0 was originally set to be released this year, but is currently on track to be released with Google-branded hardware early next year.
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The images are ready and out there and so will be the over-the-air updates in a few weeks’ time.
Android 7.1.1 Nougat, the first iterative software update for the new Google Pixel and Pixel XL, has been released to the devices and is being distributed to eligible devices over what we believe to be the next several days via general OTA or Android Beta Program OTA, if applicable — in addition to the Pixels, those are the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 6, both Wi-Fi and LTE versions of the Nexus 9, the Pixel C and the General Mobile 4G on Android One.
The update brings the API level to 25 and standardizes bottom-paradigm navigation menus in apps, robust support for image keyboards, app shortcuts and more.
Images are available to be flashed from the Google developers file bay. Excluded at this point are Nexus 6P users on Verizon and the Nexus 6, but we suppose proper updates for those devices will come in time.
Verizon has also listed Android 7.1.1 availability on its site. A full list of fixes and improvements can be found here, but major changes have to do with voicemail, corrupted text and call medium preferences (Wi-Fi versus cellular).
Build names are different per device category:
Android Maintenance Previews continue to be built and devices enrolled in the Android Beta Program will be updated when they are released.
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If you’d like for your Nexus device to be a little more like those Pixel devices, jump on the Android Beta Program or flash the latest images available from the Android Developers site.
Google dropped the second Developer Preview of Android 7.1 for the latest Nexus devices today. Only the Nexus Player, the Nexus 6 and the General Mobile 4G are missing from the image load, so we presume that those devices have yet to receive the OTA on the beta program just yet.
This is the “final update” for the preview, so as soon as we’ll get to whatever date in December, we’ll be seeing the official release of Android 7.1.1. In the meantime, developers can now work with new Android Studio tools and emulate API Level 25. User interface is near-final, though we aren’t completely sure if we will see the two new Moves that some Canadian Pixel units got today.
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The battle for a night viewing mode on the Nexus phones has been a hard fought one and Google’s actions in introducing it, then removing it, then pulling an obstruction act on its availability has only frustrated many developers who have wanted a first-party solution to the saving their eyes from straining blue light.
We heard a while back that the Android Engineering Team were pin-focused on getting a usable, efficient solution for making it work between the right hardware and tricks in software. It makes sense to have the right hardware parts produce visible results as software keeps working within its color gamut to product right-looking screenshots.
The kerfuffle has ended up at a point where the Pixel and the Pixel XL now have a Night Light mode while the 2015 Nexus devices are left without driver support for the proper hardware composition. And it has been this way even with the Android 7.1 Developer Preview.
As developers have taken to the AOSP Issue Tracker forums to complain to Google to extend some sort of night reading mode for the Nexus 5X and 6P, one project member has marked the feature down for a future release.
We’re not sure how far down the future we’re talking about, but the hope is back and so might be the feature. Whether it will be a permanent player is also yet to be seen.
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