The largest is in the smallest details
Android you get a real hard time. identity and personality. In large part, this is due to the freedom they have always offered for anyone to fully customize the operating system. This has always been one of the badges of Android, but recent years have seen an effort to redesign the platform and give it a unique style and, above all, himself. So much so that in recent years we have not seen a drastic or radical change in the system interface. It seems that they have succeeded
But evolution does not stop, Android Nougat is the latest step towards that ideal system.; and I could have been better.
One of the biggest “culprits” for this is Matias Duarte, current vice president of design at Google (although I like to see as the main culprit. Duarte arrived in 2010 to give a facelift to Android from version 3.0 (Honeycomb) and so it was, only that the system was very limited in devices. His real vision begin to see much more present from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but it was not until Android 5.0 Lollipop would come the final, at the end of 2014.
from there, Android what he has done is to polish their bases, improve what we can improve and add more features and attractive things to its interface . But the design and, of course, the user interface in some way has remained like. it is a foundation that Google has established and did not change dramatically.
One of those bases is Material Design, the interface created (of course) also Duarte now we see not only present in Android and its applications (either native or third party), but also in the Chrome browser, Chrome OS in Android Wear and in general all products of the company.
And here comes Android Nougat, to further consolidate the entire portfolio of products Google under a single style, but not before finish polishing everything can polish and add a few features and functions that make it all work better.
best of Nougat is that you do not see with the naked eye
I have read and heard some criticism that nougat “does not deserve to be called a major update (7.0) since it does not change many things.” You may not change at first, but the improvements are there. The mobile work much better than before, from multitasking to battery consumption and mobile data.
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first we need changes and developments are yes. The new notification center is wonderful to manage all alerts and warnings that you receive from the thousand and one applications we all use, customize exactly what you want to receive and in what time do not want to be bothered by anyone (with a few exceptions, if you want to include them) . Almost all of this and you could do it earlier, but it was so cumbersome that many simply spent and we put the mobile in silence for hours. Now, all you can set with a couple of clicks ( touch screen? ) on the notification center.
For example, when you receive notification can move it to the left to choose if you want to block future notifications of this, or display them silently, among others.
And of course, there is the case of multitasking, now Android Nougat is ideally thought the big screens. Which was expected, since today all mobile come with screens of a size of 5 “ figure class =>. “
in Nougat simply by holding down on the button in a square that is in the lower right corner of the screen (and is known as “button multitasking”) you can choose to split your screen into two parts, and thus enjoy two apps simultaneously. of course, this depends on the developer activate feature. Some like YouTube, WhatsApp and Telegram already have this, but for some reason the official Twitter app not. So you will see a video and talk on WhatsApp at a time, or text easily spend an app to another by dragging.
But as I said, the best is in the details. And what you do not see at a glance what Nougat makes it so special.
beyond multitasking and notifications Nougat adds a number of functions that work without you noticing, to improve the user experience. For example, the “Doze” mode to save battery now works intelligently and know the time when you do not use the phone so you’re moving (previously only made it if you left the terminal on a flat and immobile surface), which will prevent consume a lot of battery. It has also improved the whole way in which the mobile is updated and installed applications, which is much faster reboots. And soon even be able to use applications without installing them, thanks to Instant Apps
In general, Google what he wanted with Nougat was polishing a system that already has personality and is full of good and useful features to make it even better. For months I have in the process of testing development versions of Nougat and return to the official version of Android Mashmallow, and since then I have not felt the need to customize the mobile beyond allowing me the system itself. Everything works so well and can do so many things that satisfy me for my day.
Root My days are in the past (because of course that I had. Who would not?)
it’s nice to see how after years since he made the last wash face end Android has come to this point. The road was always clear, but at first had much to do. Nougat is not perfect, but it is the best thing that happened to the system in years. And today has nothing to envy to other platforms …
… except applications. Android still needs a lot of those great applications that are only in iOS. One step at a time, I guess
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