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Android O Features and APIs Android O introduces a variety of new features and capabilities for users and developers. This document highlights what's new for developers. Make sure to check out  Android O Behavior Changes  to learn about areas where platform changes may affect your apps. Notifications In Android O, we've redesigned notifications to provide an easier and more consistent way to manage notification behavior and settings. These changes include: Notification channels: Android O introduces notification channels that allow you to create a user-customizable channel for each type of notification you want to display. The user interface refers to notification channels as notification categories. To learn how to implement notification channels, see the Notification Channels guide. Snoozing: Users can snooze notifications to reappear at a later time. Notifications reappear with the same level of importance they first appeared with. Apps can remove or upd

When is Android 7.1.1 Nougat coming to my phone? Every year a major update to Android is released. 2016's update is called Android Nougat, following the theme of dessert-inspired names. Unlike previous updates, Nougat was first released to developers with a public preview beta programme, meaning early access to the new version of Android. It's now been released to numerous devices. If you want to know what the Nougat update brings with it, you can read our Android Nougat review with everything you need to know. Android 7.1.1 Nougat review: Subtle but super-sweet OS update Things are a little more complicated with the latest flavour of Android though, because Google subsequently launched the Pixel and Pixel XL devices on Android 7.1, bringing some exclusive features to its own new phones. Other devices have been getting Android 7.0 instead. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– Google Pixel exclusive features explored: A cut above the rest of Android? And