Google Android 8.0 Oreo

With the latest version of Android, Google aims to make its mobile OS more efficient and comfortable, both under the hood and in your hand.

Notification Snooze and Channels

With Oreo, you can swipe partway left or right to reveal Snooze and Notification Channel settings. Tap clock to snooze the notification temporarily. Tap the cog to edit what kind of notifications you receive from a given app.

Notification Channels

With Notification Channels, you can opt out of certain kinds of notifications or all notifications from a specific app.

Notifications By Account

In addition to specific kinds of notifications, some apps allow you to tweak your notification settings by account.

Snazzier Notifications

Notifications now come in colors!

A Picture of Picture-in-Picture

Never miss a minute of video. Now, tapping the home button while video plays in supported apps shrinks the video to a tiny window that hovers over all your activities.

Google Play Protect

Google has always guarded its app store against bad behavior, but that security is now more visible to users with Play Protect.

Autofill

The new autofill feature lets you replay passwords you've saved with Google. The Autofill API will allow developers to offer their apps as autofill providers.

Progress?

Android Oreo places new limitations on the background data and location information that apps can access. The goal is to improve battery life and overall device performance. Unfortunately, I noticed this alert more than any power gains.