Google is done with leaks of Android. It's slowly letting Android N unfold.
The second developer preview for Google’s upcoming Android N is out. The new update brings Vulkan 3D rendering APIs to Android, which is going to enhance graphic intensive tasks, like gaming. If you followed Samsung’s launch of the Galaxy S7 Edge and S7 flagships, you’d know that these are already supported in the company’s newest flagship devices. “Vulkan is a new 3D rendering API which we’ve helped to develop as a member of Khronos, geared at providing explicit, low-overhead GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) control to developers and offers a significant boost in performance for draw-call heavy applications. Vulkan’s reduction of CPU overhead allows some synthetic benchmarks to see as much as 10 times the draw-call throughput on a single core as compared to OpenGL ES. Combined with a threading-friendly API design which allows multiple cores to be used in parallel with high efficiency, this offers a significant boost in performance for draw-call heavy applications. With Android N, we’ve made Vulkan a part of the platform; you can try it out on supported devices running Developer Preview 2,” writes Google, on its Android developer blog.
Google’s Android N also brings app shortcuts, which allows apps to put specific task shortcuts into the Android launcher. Another significant update is to emojis. Google is adding Emoji Unicode 9 support to Android N, which brings more human-like emojis, instead of generic emojis that we’ve been using so far. The company urges keyboard messaging developers to start using these emojis in their applications.
If you’re enrolled in the Android Beta Program, you’ll get the update over-the-air. Alternatively, you can also flash the update manually. We’ll be doing this to our Nexus devices soon and will have updates for you.
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