Came the second version of the Android N Tests – Pplware

Every year, steadily, Google presents its new version of Android. Following a well-defined nomenclature, 2016 is the year of Android N.

The first test version came just over a month, showing all the news and now came the second test version with a lot more of updates.

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the first version of the Android N tests all surprised by the way it was announced. Outside the conference I / O, which is usually made known, Google released for Nexus the first version of Android N tests.

If the novelties presented at that time showed that N will be continued than Google was developing for Android, the second test version shows that the work is moving in the right direction and that there are important news.

besides the usual improvements and bug fixes, as those associated with wireless networks and instant answers, Google has some important news that was developing.

Vulkan : The Vulkan is a new 3D rendering API that Google helped develop as members of Khronos. It is intended to provide explicit control programmers and low overhead GPU (Graphics Processor Unit), and significantly increase the performance of demanding applications. The reduction of the CPU resource consumption caused by Vulkan results in better overall performance

Shortcuts Launcher . From now applications can set shortcuts that will be able to be seen by users in launchers and will allow direct perform tasks within applications.

Emoji Unicode 9 : Google introduced the new emoji, which beyond the more traditional design, approaching the most humanised emoji. Developers can use them already in their applications. Come into being emoji with variations in skin tone and new glyphs, such as bacon, the selfie and face palm.

With an ongoing testing program, Google hopes to collect as much information about this new version and how to improve it, correcting flaws and other bugs.

If you want to test this version can now download the official images, or wait for the OTA update to arrive in the coming days, but this to anyone in the program Android Beta.