Android N Preview: Here's everything that you need to know

Google was quite early with this new version of Android code named Android N. Android N seems to be the redesign of the latest version Android 6 (Marshmallow). This release of Android N is just a preview version, which gives us a good indication of where android is heading and what we can expect in the full release.

Taking a look at this preview version we can assume that android N will be packed with some awesome features. Some major changes that we get in this preview version are:

1. Split Screen multitasking:

This feature was already included in Samsung devices back in 2013 and later in 2015 apple added this feature in their new iPad pro to take advantage of the big screen it has, and now the stock Android supports it. The good thing about stock android supporting Split Screen Multitasking is that all the apps on the play store will be able to take advantage of this feature. Samsung's split screen multitasking is not that smooth, and only their own apps support it. But now developers can configure their apps to work on split screens.

2. New customized notification pannel:

Android likes to make sure you catch up with notifications and quickly interact with them, so the new notification pannel is more informative and interactive. It gives you more details about the notification. You can quickly reply to a text message right from your notification pannel, and this feature is something we've already seen in ios devices. Also there is a small row of quick settings on the notification pannel, now you don't have to swipe two times for the quick settings.

3. Redesigned Settings app:

The settings in the new Android is like that of Marshmallow's but now it is much informative. It gives you some quick info about a category, for example you get to see what wifi or Bluetooth connection you are connected to, how much storage is used and how much is free, what is the battery percentage, etc. Also there is a side pannel(Navigation drawer) for you to quickly jump into other categories, for example, you can directly jump from wifi settings to storage settings, this might save you some clicks.

These are the major changes that you can see in the Developer preview. There are still some new features and improvements like the Night Mode, which makes the theme of some of the apps like settings to go dark, which can be made to enable after sunet automatically. There is a new improved Doze, that again saves the batter more efficiently. And the App drawer is not gone. There are still more to see, this is just the first preview version.