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Google Unveils the Android 8.0 “Oreo” Mobile Operating System, Here’s What’s New

Android 8.0 is Google’s major release of the Linux-based mobile OS for Android devices, and it introduces a wide-range of new features and improvements, among which we can mention boot improvements that would make your phone start twice as fast as before on Google Pixel devices. Android 8.0 “Oreo” is capable of saving more battery life by minimizing the background activity of the apps you don’t use so often, support for the built-in Autofill functionality to remember logins with your permission, of course, and a picture-in-picture mode so you can interact with two apps at once.

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