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we will just released its Android and beta for public consumption this has been out in the wild for a little bit now but Google says it's it's safe to put it on your phone so we put it on our phone and we're going to check it out so the biggest change is multitasking so it's just like the old times you can push that little square button and you get a view of all your open apps there's a new clear all button you want to clear all apparently this was much requested people applauded when Google announced the clear all button but the most important part is multitasking so if I'm in an app like I'm in Chrome right now if I hold down this button I get to choose a second app to have side by side and you see that little warning the app may not work with split screen I'm guessing a lot of apps will be tweaked and improved in the coming months before this is actually released so that they're not going to warn you about that but it works just fine even even with that warning you can resize this split here if you want to get rid of an app you just drag it away and the other cool little tweak is it's like alt tab for Android if you double tap this button it's going to switch between your most recently used app so if you're bouncing back and forth between two apps you're not in the split screens you can just double tap there you go the other big tweak of Android in is notifications they're full width now and you can reply inline just kind of cool that's a bummer can also press down on a message and change like what kind of notifications you get from that app right from there but I like I like getting my hangouts the only thing that's different about the notification tray is that when you drag down you get these options right here you don't have to expand which used to take two taps on marshmallow to get us these quick like toggles for settings so now it's just really easy to turn on a flashlight also this this animation is totally superfluous but it's really pretty clear that it's just amazing speaking of settings the actual settings menu has been changed a little bit it now shows you kind of information about each one of these options it's kind of like where it's at right now the ringer volume is at 71% I have 36 apps installed so you don't have to dive into each of one of these to figure it out it also recommends settings for you you know settings that you maybe you haven't used recently and they're missing you so this wants me there like I had a fingerprint set up email which makes a lot of sense you can also just collapse that if you know what you want another big change is you can now change your keyboard theme for the default Google keyboard so you can pick a color like pink or red or blue you also pick a photo background you can turn on and off the keyboard er so let's check it out and we could type on Jake's face so Jake that's totally Jake this was also designed some new emojis for Android n basically kind of revamp a lot of them these blobs used to be kind of a bunch of different shapes and now they're just pretty uniform blobs but still not circles importantly Google's also proposing some new professional women emojis which aren't in here yet but I'm looking forward to see where where's the cops here we go so these are the these are the current professionals and they used to be these like weird finger shapes I think this is much more pleasing that's about it Android n is not a big change over marshmallow it's supposed to be faster it's got these little tweaks that are nice to haves there is some stuff under the hood like there's this new compiler apps are supposed to launch faster and run faster there's Vulcan graphics which should make games run better and consume less battery there's also a bunch of VR step that's coming and and that's going to require new hardware and that's kind of a whole program and it doesn't so far I have a lot to do with Android in and there's also instant apps you click a web link you get an app it's like pretty slick apparently works pretty good but it doesn't even require em you can basically any phone with Play Store it's going to get this and that's basically how Google works now they can't cordon off all their best new features for something like Android n there's just too few people who have phones that run the newest version of Android so they just make it available to everybody and everybody gets to have fun with the new features and the few people get to have improved notifications and multitask could you text me whatever yeah I love the verge I love my boss and all my coworkers