Android "Oreo" is the eighth major version of the Android mobile operating system . It was first released as an alpha developer developer preview on March 21, 2017 and finally released to the public on August 21, 2017.
Google unveiled a statue of the dessert-themed update at 14th Street Park in Manhattan, close to the original Nabisco factory that created the first Oreo.
Features
2x faster:
Get started on your favorite tasks more quickly with 2x the boot speed when powering up*
*boot time as measured on Google Pixel
*boot time as measured on Google Pixel
Background limits:
Android Oreo helps minimize background activity in the apps you use least, it's the super power you can't even see.
Autofill:
With your permission, Autofill remembers your logins to get you into your favorite apps at supersonic speed.
User experience
Notifications can be snoozed, and batched into topic-based groups known as "channels". The "Settings" app features a new design, with a white theme and deeper categorization of different settings. Android TV features a new launcher. Google claims faster startup times from a powered-off state, and improved battery life by minimizing background activity for infrequently used apps.
Platform
Android Oreo adds support for Neighborhood Aware Networking (NAN) for Wi-Fi based on Wi-Fi Aware, wide color gamuts in apps,an API for autofillers, multiprocess and Google Safe Browsing support for Web Views, an API to allow system-level integration for VoIP apps, and launching activities on remote displays.
Android Oreo supports new emoji that were included in the Unicode 10 standard. A new emoji font was also introduced, which notably redesigns its face figures to use a traditional circular shape, as opposed to the "blob" design that was introduced on Android "KitKat".
Android Oreo introduces a new automatic repair system known as "Rescue Party"; if the operating system detects that core system components are persistently crashing during startup, it will automatically perform a series of escalating repair steps. If all automatic repair steps are exhausted, the device will reboot into recovery mode and offer to perform a factory reset.
A tailored distribution for low-end devices known as Android Go is also being made available, which will be used on all devices with 1 GB of RAM or less. These devices will ship with platform optimizations designed to reduce mobile data usage (including enabling Data Saver mode by default), and a special suite of Google Mobile Services designed to be less resource- and bandwidth-intensive. Google Play Store will also highlight lightweight apps suited for these devices.
Security
Android Oreo re-brands automatic scanning of Google Play Store and sideloaded apps as "Google Play Protect", and gives the feature, as well as Find My Device (formerly Android Device Manager) higher prominence in the Security menu of the Settings app. As opposed to a single, system-wide setting for enabling the installation of apps from sources outside of the Google Play Store, this function is now implemented as a permission that can be granted to individual apps (i.e. clients for third-party app repositories such as Amazon Appstore and F-Droid). Verified boot now includes a "Rollback Protection" feature, which enforces a restriction on rolling back the device to a previous version of Android, aimed at avoiding a potential thief from bypassing security measures by installing a previous version of the operating system that doesn't have them in place.
The following devices will be getting Oreo:
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