Android 7.0 Nougat final release reportedly coming this August

The Android N developer preview gives us a sneak peek into what Android Nougat will look like when it officially arrives later this year. Of course, developer previews quite often contain features that won’t make it to the final release but there’s still plenty to get excited about, so let’s dive right in. Here are all the Android 7.0 Nougat features from the latest Android N preview updates as well as others we expect to see in future. Please note that some features have been officially confirmed by Google, while others, “confirmed” by the developer preview, could still disappear before Android 7.0 arrives in September.

Update: The fifth and final preview of Android N is now available. Android N developer preview 5 provides “near-final” system images, an emulator for devs testing apps targeted at API 24 and more. See below for the user-facing breakdown.

Google revealed the official name for Android N is going to be Android Nougat, not Android Nutella, as many had hoped (just check the comments under Google’s tweet for confirmation). Based on other clues from Google I/O and in developer previews, we already knew the next major Android version would be Android 7.0 but now we can confirm it is Android 7.0 Nougat.

At one point Sundar Pichai had said he’d ask his mother or let fans vote for the official Android N name and, true to form, Google did a Google Opinions Rewards poll on dessert names starting with the letter ‘N’. Android N was known internally as New York Cheesecake and during the I/O keynote, users were invited to suggest names for Android N.

All the screenshots and mockups featured at I/O showed the time 7:00 – Google’s traditional method of hinting at the next Android version number. The same time appeared in demo mode in Dev Preview 4.

Android Nougat discharge date 

As opposed to hold up until Google I/O 2016, Google chose to astound all of us by discharging the main Android N designer sneak peak on March 9, two entire months sooner than anticipated. The Android N sneak peak went live for the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 9 (Wi-Fi and LTE), Nexus Player and Pixel C on the Android Developers site. The primary beta discharge competitor showed up amid Google I/O on May 18, 2016.