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Thursday, 8 March 2018

Android P Developer Preview with display cutout / notch support, HDR VP9 video, Multi-camera support and more now available

Google has announced Android developer preview for Android 'P', the next major Android release, ahead of Google I/O 2018 in May, just like it did for Android N and O. Google said that the next version of Android will bring Indoor Positioning with Wi-Fi RTT, Display cutout or notch support, Enhanced messaging experience, Multi-camera support, HDR VP9 Video, HEIF image compression, ImageDecoder for bitmaps and drawables, Data cost sensitivity in JobScheduler and more. Android P is now available for Pixel, Pixel XL Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL devices on the Android developer website here. Stable release is expected in Q3 2018. Google said that Android Beta is not currently available for Android P. Preview 2 along with first Android  beta will be available in May, Preview 3 with final APIs in June, Preview 4 (release candidate for testing) around July and the final Preview 5 in Q3 before the final release. New features in Android P Indoor Positioning with Wi-Fi RTT:  Android P adds platform support for the IEEE 802.11mc Wi-Fi protocol—also known as Wi-Fi Round-Trip-Time (RTT)—to let you take advantage of indoor positioning in your apps. On Android P devices with hardware support, your apps can use the new RTT APIs to measure the distance to nearby RTT-capable Wi-Fi ...