Our article will introduce and help everyone who wants to try the benefits of Android 7.0 and 7.1. The official release of Android 7.0 (codename - Nougat) took place on August 22, 2016, the new OS became available for Nexus and Pixel smartphones, and at the moment it is wobbly reaching other devices around the world.
How quickly time flies - you hardly have time to follow the updates. And, of course, someone could easily miss the Android Nougat release.
It is not enough to install a new OS, because you still have to figure it out and get acquainted with new features. Here are some practical recommendations that will help you to learn more about many of the features. new version Android without leaving the checkout.
Please note that everything written here applies to Android 7.0 and 7.1 on Google devices. Many smartphone manufacturers change the operating system in their own way, adding features and changing the interface. So on some gadgets, menu items and names may be different or even absent.
How to quickly switch between open applications in Android 7
On Android Nougat, switching between applications has become much easier: double-click on the "Recent Apps" button (square to the right of the "Home" button) to navigate between the last two open applications (sort of like Alt + Tab keyboard shortcut on PC).
Speaking of this button, in the seventh version it received a new function: open any application, press and hold it, or press it once. Recently opened applications will be displayed, select the one you need and drag it to the top of the screen. This is how split-screen mode is activated, in which two open applications take up half of the screen. To return to normal viewing mode, press and hold the "Recent Applications" button again.
How to copy text
Need to copy text from one application and paste into another? Let's do it in multi-window mode. Select the desired text, then click on it, hold and drag it to another window. If the application itself supports this feature, the text will be inserted automatically.
Little known fact: using the above mode, you can view two browser tabs at the same time, for example, Chrome. Open a new tab in Chrome, press and hold the "Recent Applications" button and click on the three dots icon (top right corner of the screen). We are looking for the option “Move to another window”.
And one more trick associated with our now favorite button. Some may already be aware that you can remove applications from recently launched ones by dragging and dropping them to the left or right of the screen. The new version of Android has an option complete cleaning the list of recently closed applications (at one time, many third-party smartphone manufacturers introduced such an option in their versions of Android). Scroll to the very beginning of the list and find it.
Home button on Android 7.1 will show the most frequent actions
On an Android 7.1 device, press and hold the Home button. The most frequently used functions appear on the screen. different applicationsfor example, calling a favorite contact in the Phone app or opening a new tab in Chrome. (For those who have Android 7.1, but nothing works, you can use the Google Start launcher.)
Quick jump to settings
Need a quick jump through system settings? Nougat has a quick navigation menu. To find it, click on the three horizontal lines icon in the upper left corner.
For those who have a blockage in the "Applications" section: you can quickly scroll through the list by sliding your finger down the right edge of the screen. The fast scrolling interface will appear.
How to configure and what can be seen in the quick settings panel of Android 7
The quick settings panel on Nougat has undergone several subtle but important innovations. First, if you swipe down from the top of the screen, several shortcuts appear for quick access to various parameters such as, and "Flight mode". Also, each comes with a switch for quick turn on and turn off a function.
If, while on the main screen, swipe down twice or with two fingers, an expanded list of available tools opens, where when you click on any of the icons, they open additional settings (if the selected function has them).
In all sections of the quick settings panel, a long press on any of the icons takes you to the corresponding system settings window.
The quick settings toolbar is fully customizable. Open the panel and click on the "Change" button, which should be in the lower right corner or on the pencil in the upper right of the screen. This option allows you to move, add and remove icons from the panel.
The settings of the first six icons from the quick settings panel are displayed when you call short view the so-called "curtain" (swipe down on the main screen once).
Mode "at work"
If you use the gadget at work, look for the "At work" item in the quick settings panel. It switches between a user's work profile, where settings and applications are set for work purposes, and a personal one with custom applications.
Additional tools can be added to the quick setting panel using third-party applications. For example, using Weather Quick Settings, you can add a small weather tile, and Ringer Modes will allow you to change the sound mode of the gadget with one touch.
Night mode on Android 7
Android 7.1 supports the new Night Mode, which is only available on select models. If you're in luck, you'll find the Night Mode feature in the quick settings panel. It makes it easier to read the screen at night.
In addition, you can make this feature automatically turn on when needed. In the "Settings" menu, open the "Screen" section, look for "Night mode", click on the "Turn on automatically" label and select the option either "In the dark" or "Custom schedule". (It's easy to guess that this setting will only be on the device with "Night mode").
Android 7 notifications
Notifications in the seventh version of the mobile OS are divided by applications, so if you received, say, three new messages in your Gmail mail, a notification about this will be displayed in its block on the notification panel. Clicking on the notification opens a mini-block with more detailed informationwhich can be expanded to provide quick access to notification-related options (for example, send to archive or reply to a message).
Is an application sending notifications too often? Click and hold any of its notifications (or slightly shift it to the right or left and click on the gear that appears). From here, we can mute all subsequent notifications or turn them off altogether.
Android's Do Not Disturb mode got a new useful feature on Nougat: you can set silent mode for the whole night, and in the morning when the alarm rings, it will turn itself off. To activate this option, go to "Settings", then - "Sounds and vibration", find the item "Do not disturb", select "Automatic rules". Add a new rule, click on the "Time" line and enter any name. We set the days and times when the gadget will be in silent mode. In the "Do not disturb" section, either "Alarm only" or "Important only" should be selected, also do not forget to enable the option "The next signal overrides the current stop time".
Additional functions
Stop squinting! Especially for those with vision problems, Nougat has a zoom option. Going to the "Screen", we are looking for the option "Image scale on the screen".
Want to make the words bigger, but keep everything else the same? For this in the "Screen" section there is a line "Font size".
If you need to reduce the amount of Internet traffic consumed, Nougat has a new Traffic Saving Mode, which limits the amount of outgoing and incoming mobile data for an individual application (both in the background and in the active mode). We head to the "Settings" and go to the "Data transmission" section and click on the "Traffic saving" item.
Multiple system languages \u200b\u200bfor Android
Are you fluent in two or three languages? On Android 7.0 and 7.1, it is possible to install several system languages \u200b\u200band switch between them without any problems. Going to the "Language and input" section in the system settings, click on the "Languages" item, where we can add new languages \u200b\u200bto the list.
Medical card in the phone
For emergencies, a kind of medical record was added to the seventh version of Android, which, among other things, indicates contacts for communication in case of an emergency (they will be displayed on the locked screen) and blood group. To enter this data, in the settings menu, click on the "Users" item and see the line "Data for emergency cases".
Now you can change the voice of the system in such a way that it will growl or squeak (it's funny to listen to both). We go to "Settings", then - "Special. Opportunities "and click on the" Speech synthesis "option, where we can set the voice pitch.
Have you ever had one earpiece in your ear but want to hear both channels? In this case, in the section "Special. Features ”there is an option“ Mono sound ”.
Hidden functionality Android 7
Those who need to walk through smartphone memory, move or copy files should definitely try out the improved file manager. Having opened the "settings", go to the section "", at the very bottom we find the option "Explorer". This is the file manager.
Want to experiment? We go to the quick settings panel, long-press on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the screen, unlock the hidden parameters of the System UI Tuner. After that, a new line "System UI Tuner" should appear in the settings menu at the very end of the list. Various user settings await their time here, for example, the appearance of the status bar and control different types notifications.
Google has released the fifth version of the Android 7.0 Nougat preview for developers. And in this version, an easter egg finally appeared, which curious users have been looking for for a long time and unsuccessfully all this time. Here's how to build a collection of virtual cats!
Traditionally, Google includes an Easter egg in new versions of Android - a secret picture or animation that can most often be called up by multi-grate clicking on the OS version number in the settings (section About phone). This time, the adventure begins similarly - but is only just beginning.
Go to the section Settings-About phone and quickly click the version number three times. A large letter N will appear. Press it several times, alternating with a long press. When you see a cat emoji under it, you can praise yourself for your efforts.
So you are on screen with a cat emoji. Pull down the quick setting shutter and press the Edit button. This is where you will see a new tile for the quick settings screen: “???? Android Easter Egg. ” Yes, that is how it is called: "Easter Egg", it is nowhere clearer. Drag it to the quick settings panel and start having fun.
Exit the editing screen and you will see that the new tile has turned into an Empty dish - an Empty dish with the corresponding picture and signature. Click on it and you will be able to choose one of the lures for the cat: Bits (obviously cat food), Fish (fish), Chicken (chicken) and Treat (sweets). After your selection, the treat will appear on a tile in the quick settings panel.
Haven't guessed what the N and the cat emoji mean at the very beginning? N + Cat is almost Nougat!
It is not yet clear whether the Easter egg will remain in Android 7.0 after the release of the final version of the OS for users, but agree that it would be nice.
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At the beginning of July, monthly statistics on the distribution of Android appeared and for the first time in it, the Nougat version exceeded 10%. This Google product has had problems with the rate of distribution since its inception. The reason is too a large number of interested parties.
Google releases new versions every year, they are available to everyone for free, but then the difficulties begin. Every device maker like Samsung, LG or HTC wants to create their own Android skin, stand out and attract customers through it. It takes time to develop and test these varieties. After that, operators can come into play mobile communicationsthat have to adjust different shells to work in their networks.
All this has its advantages. For example, third-party vendors bring new ideas. Each company offers at least a couple of new functionality, sometimes in the next generation Google will include them in stock Android. An example is the ability to respond to SMS directly in the notification panel, which is now available on the stock Nougat, and before that was only available in Samsung devices for several years.
Below are nine interesting features of pure Android Nougat. Testing was conducted on a Nexus 6P smartphone. Perhaps, on other smartphones, these options will be absent or work differently.
Split display mode
This feature is not new as it was previously available from several manufacturers. For example, it existed in models Galaxy Note... The option is now part of the pure Nougat and should get to most models.
You can display two applications at once in landscape and portrait modes. When one program is open, you can start the second one by long pressing the button of recent applications (small square). After entering multitasking mode, this button turns into an icon with vertical stripes. The ability to change is limited and available only in portrait mode... You can quit multitasking by dragging the dividing line all the way to one side or by long pressing the recent apps button.
Not all programs support separation yet. For example, “ Google search».
Quick switch
Nougat allows you to skip back and forth between the last two apps by double clicking on the Recent Programs button. This works both in normal mode and with two open applications. This simple trick should have been introduced into the system a long time ago.
Secret UI Tuner
To access the hidden UI Tuner menu, double-swipe down to open the gear icon and long-press on it. The menu will appear in the settings in the "System" section. When activated, a warning is displayed that there are experimental functions, in the future they may change, not work or disappear.
There are interesting options here, such as the ability to make changes to the status bar, Do Not Disturb, and so on. Explore them, but keep in mind that not all of them will be usable. UI Tuner is available in stock Android Marshmallow but not in Samsung's variant. It is possible that this menu will be absent from most other manufacturers.
Editing the quick settings panel
With two down gestures, you can access the quick setting tiles. Latest version the system allows you to edit these tiles.
When the panel is pulled out, expand the small arrow on the right side to view the full list of tiles such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, etc. The system allows you to choose which tiles will be there at all times. To do this, click on the "Edit" button in the lower right corner and get access to the full list of tiles, you can drag them.
There is another useful change: swiping left or right to access additional tiles. In theory, you can display all tiles for quick access.
Extended notifications
The system gives the most intrusive users the opportunity to gain full control over it. First you need to activate the abovementioned UI Tuner menu and in the "Other" section enable the "Advanced notification control" switch. Here you can set the priority on a scale from 0 (block all) to 5 (show at the top of the list even over the running program).
In Settings\u003e Notifications, you can set the priority for each program by clicking on the big green A on the left.
Easy editing of notifications
You can open their settings by long-pressing on a specific notification in the drop-down panel, or slide the notification to the side to open the gear icon. This trick also works on the lock screen.
Setting different wallpapers for your lock screen and home screen
Some manufacturers already had this opportunity, but now they appear in a clean version. Long press on home screen to change wallpaper. When an image is selected, you will be asked if you want to set this wallpaper on your home screen, lock screen, or both.
Display size
Thanks to the proliferation of computers and mobile devices everyone has vision problems more people at an increasingly early age. As a result, a larger image and font may be required. Pure Android satisfies this need.
You can resize the image by enlarging the text and icons at "Display\u003e Display Size". There are five options available here.
Easter egg
As usual, Google hasn't forgotten a little surprise. The two previous versions of the system offered the hidden game Flappy Bird. The game was so difficult that many people quickly lost interest. Nougat offers a weird cat game.
1. Go to Settings\u003e About Phone and repeatedly tap the system version number until you see the large N-shaped logo.
2. Long press on the logo until you see the cat icon below.
3. Swipe down from top to open the notification panel.
4. Press edit, scroll down and find a small cat icon labeled “???? Android Easter Egg ". Drag and drop anywhere you want.
5. Now, when you open quick settings, you will see the "Empty bowl" tile. Pressing it gives you a choice of four types of food.
6. Wait. You will receive a notification that you have caught a cat.
Google leaves hidden Android Easter eggs inside its operating system for many years now. We've collected all the surprises of the operating system, from Android Gingerbread to Android Nougat, in one article.
The Easter egg found in Android 2.3 Gingerbread looks, frankly, scary. A demonic hand-painted painting depicts a gingerbread man with a bow tie around his neck and yellow eyes, an Android surrounded by zombies is standing nearby. This first Easter egg is not only creepy, but completely different from subsequent Google surprises. Fortunately.
To see this Easter egg, you need, as in all other Easter eggs on our list, go to the settings, go to the "About phone" item and click on " Android version"Until the Easter egg appears.
Easter egg in this version of android is less scary than in Gingerbread, but no less strange. To activate this surprise, you need to repeat the steps described above, and you will see a neon bee. Under the bee there will be a field with the word "REZZZZZ".
Remember Nyan Cat? A pixelated cat that flies and leaves a rainbow trail behind it? Well, Android honored the memory of its beloved internet code with an Easter egg in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
After a few taps on the android version, the pixel hero will appear. When you press and hold your finger on the character, a flying Nyandroid will appear. Cool.
Devices running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean may find the Easter egg in the shape of a large red gummy. Access to it opens as in previous cases. After the gummy appears, press and hold your finger on it. A lot of gummies will appear that you can swipe off the screen.
The Easter egg in Android 4.4 KitKat is an homage to the memory of all past versions of Android. Go to settings - about phone and tap on the android version a few times. A rotating letter K will appear. Press and hold on it to see the KitKat logo. Press and hold on the logo to open tiles with previous versions of the operating system.
This Easter egg is similar to its predecessor, only marshmallows are presented instead of lollipops. The game is also launched through settings -\u003e About phone. Next, you need to press and hold on the marshmallow, after which the game will open.
In the new version of Android 7.0 Nougat, the Easter egg is a game in which you have to catch cats by attracting them with food (I agree, it sounds strange). To find this Easter egg, go to the Settings menu and select About Phone. Press several times on the android version until the letter N appears. Press and hold on this letter, then release.
If the cat's head appears below N, it means that the Easter egg has been activated. Now open the quick settings menu (swipe down from the top of the screen twice) and click the Edit button: you will see a new icon. Place the dish icon in the notification bar and tap it to select the bait.
Continue to use your phone as usual, you will be notified if a cat comes to your plate.
The new easter egg has a blue screen with a black octopus floating around. The octopus has an egg-shaped head that you can drag around the screen if you want, and it has eight tentacles (which is probably why it is an Easter egg character). While not the most attractive feature, it is a welcome addition. To activate this Easter egg, you need to open "Settings" -\u003e "System" -\u003e "About phone" as usual and click on "Android version" several times until a yellow circle appears.
Press it several times and hold your finger for a while.
IN different versions Android hid Easter eggs. Android 7 was no exception. It hides a game aimed at collecting cats. Something like Pokemon GO in a simplified form without using virtual reality.
If you love cats, then this game is for you.
Since I don't have a phone with this version right now, I used the emulator from Android Studiowhich developers use to create their own applications. If you are not an Android 7 user and not a developer, then at the end of the article you can find out how you can play this game on your device.
Launch Settings. Scroll to the bottom of the list and find the item "About Phone" or in my case with an emulator with Russian localization "About emulated device".
Enter this item and find the item "Android version" (Android version).
Tap this item several times at a fast pace until you see the Android N logo in the background of the Home screen wallpaper.
Now tap on the "N" logo and then press and hold your finger on the letter. You should see a cat (emoji symbol) at the bottom of the screen. It appears for a few seconds and then disappears.
Pull out the quick settings window from the top of the screen. It has an Edit button.
Click the "Change" button. You should see a cat face icon that says “???? Android Easter egg ".
Drag the icon to the main settings window. The caption will change to "????".
Now the fun begins.
Click on the Home button (circle) and then pull out the settings window from the top again. This time you should see an "Empty dish" option.
By clicking on it, you will see a window with a choice of 4 types of food: Bits, Fish, Chicken, Treat.
Choose one of the options. The empty saucer will be replaced with the selected treat.
Continue using your phone as usual. And wait.
One day you will receive an alert that the cat has smelled food and ate the treat. But perhaps the cat will not be flattered by your treat, then you will have to try again until the cat finally appears. To do this, open the settings window again, click on the treat to delete it, and select a different food option. This is part of the game, you need to lure the cat out. It will take a long time. Maybe even more than an hour.
When you are lucky, you will receive the long-awaited message "A cat is here" with a specific number. If you wear a watch Android Wearthen don't miss this event.
You need to click on the notification. Will open new screen with a caught cat.
Click on the cat icon and give it a name.
I left a number for better identification.
A long press brings up the options for sharing or deleting from the collection.
The picture itself in high definition can be found in the Gallery under the Cats folder
This way you can collect a collection of cats.
You can open the window with the collected cats again by making a long press on the treat. Don't worry, the treat won't go away.
If the cat does not appear for a long time, then perhaps he did not like the treat. Then try tapping the treat icon again and choosing a different option.
As I understand it, an existing cat can eat a new treat. Here is my impudent Murzik for the third time eating bait for a new cat.
Therefore, you will have to lay out the treats again and wait for the new cat.
I found a screenshot of the collected cats on the net.
If you don't have a device or emulator with Android 7 Nougat, then don't be discouraged. Recently on Google play the Neco Collector program appeared,
which works on older devices and is an Easter egg port.
So I caught a cat on android device 4.4.2
