After rolling out the first developer preview of Android Oreo v8.1 in last month, the Mountain View company has rolled out the second Android Oreo 8.1 developer preview for Nexus and Pixel devices. Moreover, this is the last developer preview of the latest operating system of Android.
In the first developer preview of 8.1 Oreo came with Neural Networks API, changes to notification alerts, improved optimization and targeting for low-RAM devices, enhancements to Autofill framework and more.
And now with the second developer preview, Google makes some enhancements to all the features of the first preview, along with fixes to some issues. More importantly, this developer preview enables the Pixel Visual Core on second-generation Pixels, which allows apps using Android Camera API to capture HDR+ Shots through Pixel Visual Core.
This developer preview 2 of Android Oreo v8.1 is available for the following devices:
- Nexus 5X
- Nexus 6P
- Pixel C
- Pixel
- Pixel XL
- Pixel 2
- Pixel 2 XL
If you are a user of the first developer preview of Oreo 8.1, you should receive the update to the second developer preview soon. But, if you aren’t, you can enroll in the Beta Program by heading over here, and you will get the OTA on your device. And if you can’t wait for the OTA, you also have the option to flash the update manually to your device using the Factory Image.
As the second and final developer preview of Android Oreo 8.1 is now released, the final version of 8.1 Oreo is slated to roll out to all the users by next month.
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Source: Android Developers
