Ars has an in-depth review of Android 7.0 Nougat, so sit back, relax, and have fun.
After a lengthy Developer Preview program starting in March, the final version of Android 7.0 (codenamed “Nougat”) is finally launching today. The OS update will slowly begin to rollout to devices over the next few weeks. This year, Google is adding even more form factors to the world’s most popular operating system. After tackling watches, phones, tablets, TVs, and cars, Nougat brings platform improvements aimed at virtual reality headsets and – with some help from Chrome OS – also targets laptops and desktops.
For Android’s primary platform (still phones and tablets), there’s a myriad of improvements. Nougat brings a new multitasking split screen mode, a redesigned notification panel, an adjustable UI scale, and fresh emoji. Nougat also sports numerous under-the-hood improvements, like changes to the Android Runtime, updates to the battery saving “Doze” mode, and developer goodies like Vulkan and Java 8 support.
Why does scrolling to the bottom of a page in the article auto-load the next one? It seriously messes with how I read webpages.
Yes, it’s hugely annoying on arstechnica.com and also seen on other sites like news.com. If I pick an article to read from an index page, I expect to load and read *one* article, not an infinite number.
I suspect it’s so that the site can claim extra “article reads” to fiddle their viewing figures, but to the end-user, it confuses them and causes wasted time/network bandwidth.
Actually I quite like that a multi-page article shows up all on one page, rather than needing to click through multiple pages.
I’m sure the end-result is the same as far as “look how many page views we got!!!!!!1111” side of things, but less annoying for a UX perspective.
I still miss the days when a whole article would be one page that loads only once, though!
One more aspect for multi page articles:
totalAdsForArticle = adsPerPage * numOfPages
You can finally have split screen apps, which makes sense on a tablet. So I will be using that a lot on my Nexus tablet. They (Google) seem to add features in each version of Android that other manufacturers (Samsung, HTC, etc.) have added on top of Android for years. Guess that means it is a good thing then those manufactures won’t have to work hard to keep up those features, as it is baked into core Android.
Except that they’ll all insist on maintaining their own, incompatible versions of these features. As if we haven’t seen that before.
I was going to say… pretty much all of those features have been included in the past few Samsung devices. Every time someone has told me “Stock Android is so awesome!” I’d try using it on something and think “hey, where are all these features… oh, they’re not on stock.. yeah that’s nice, I’ll go back to using my tablet/note the way it was meant be used.” That’s why I never understood Cyanogenmod on any of the Note phones, since while it sort of supports the S-Pen, it feels very much a hack. But then there were a lot of other features that were just missing.
I also think this every time I’m tempted to get a Nexus.
You can easily add any feature you construed as missing. I for one would rather start with a clean slate, a system that takes up less than 750MB of RAM. Than one like Samsung TouchWiz that comes with more features anyone would ever use, takes up almost 2.5GB of RAM before a single app is started, lags more than any other current Android version on the market, etc. TouchWiz is just bloatware, the new Android 7 vanilla version is absolutely fantastic, easily beating out any previous skinned or custom version of Android from any manufacturer.
Edited 2016-08-24 10:19 UTC
You can’t, actually. Just because you don’t use those features doesn’t mean nobody uses them.
I used to use a Note 2. Then I switched to a Nexus 6.
I don’t know what TouchWiz does because I honestly didn’t miss anything about it.
I wonder if split screen will fix all those apps that insist on displaying tilted 90° on a landscape screen… Not that I expect that ASUS will ever release a Nougat update for the Transformer TF700. 🙁
You really should have never had this issue as there has been a fix available for years now. Just install the simple app, “Set Orientation”, than select, “Automatic”, after opening it, done. Now every app will be displayed at the current orientation of your tablet, even Instagram. Haven’t you ever bothered looking up a solution far this?
Nah, I just deleted those crappy bugged apps. I already spend far to much time fixing other people’s bugs. Thanks for the tip tho.
If you still have the TF700 install a custom firmware. ZombiePop resurrected for me something that was unusable.
Apparently spotted at a mass produced Android oriented CPU:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/22/samsung_m1_core/
Or maybe is just merchandising spin:
“AMD’s Zen architect Mike Clark confirmed to us his micro-architecture [also] uses a hashed perceptron system in its branch prediction. “Maybe I should have called it a neural net,” he added.”
True neural electronic [and future spin memory] materials can’t be embedded onto regular silicon.
Being closed HW, most probable SQ is that We’ll never know.
Neural networks have been embedded in silicon for over ten years now.
“True neural electronic …” means what, one guy said “here’s my personal definition which is TRUE and all the rest of you are wrong.” In other words, it means nothing.