All About Android Nougat As Told By Android Engineers Techworm

Night Mode in Android Nougat

Night Mode seems to be theme for every smartphone ever since Apple released its own Night Shift feature on iOS 9. While there are third party solutions on Android, Android smartphone users will prefer something native done about night mode. The Google engineers explained that though the night mode feature was being considered for Android Nougat, Google decided to pull it out at the last minute. The reason was that they simply felt that the feature wasn’t ready for prime time and that there were still resource, particularly battery, issues to be resolved. Another night mode was also pulled down for a slightly similar reason. Except here, there just weren’t enough developers and designers free to check if anything has been visually or functionally broken by the feature.

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Java

Many Redditors queried the Google engineers about Android’s dependence on Kava as its core programming language. Some the controversy with Java are the recent scandals revolving around Oracle’s (mis)management of Java. Google engineers replied that Android isn’t really in a position to switch languages now, even to Java-based forks of the language. Google still firmly believes in the language, at least as far as it is useful for Android, and will keep on leveraging and supporting it.

Fragmentation of Android

The topic of version fragmentation also came up, especially in light of Android’s availability on more than just smartphones and tablets. Google engineers said that the support library includes many new features for other, older versions of Android. They said that future updates will keep that in mind.

Bug Reports

Google engineers assured the Redditors that they have a full fledged team for combing through bugs to weed out the real ones from false positives or already fixed bugs.

Android Nougat OEM Release

Almost all rom Redditors had one question. When will Android Nougat OEM version be out and when will OEMs start adopting Android Nougat? Google engineers did not answer that one! SOURCE: Reddit