Google officially launches Android P

[Binary_Bark]

Last week at Mobile World Congress we saw that Android's ecosystem of developers, device makers, and silicon partners continues to bring amazing experiences to users worldwide.

Looking ahead, today we're sharing the first developer preview of Android P, the newest version of Android. It's an early baseline build for developers only -- you're our most trusted reviewers and testers ;-) Early feedback from our developer community is crucial in helping us evolve the platform to meet your needs. We'd love to get you started exercising the new features and APIs in P, and as always, we depend on your early feedback and ideas, so please give us your input!

This first developer preview of Android P is just the start - we'll have lots more to share at Google I/O in May, stay tuned!

New features to try in your apps
Here's a look at some of the cool features in this first preview of Android P that we want you to try and give feedback on.


Indoor positioning with Wi-Fi RTT
Accurate indoor positioning has been a long-standing challenge that opens new opportunities for location-based services. Android P adds platform support for the IEEE 802.11mc WiFi protocol -- also known as WiFi Round-Trip-Time (RTT) -- to let you take advantage of indoor positioning in your apps.

On Android P devices with hardware support, location permission, and location enabled, your apps can use RTT APIs to measure the distance to nearby WiFi Access Points (APs). The device doesn't need to connect to the APs to use RTT, and to maintain privacy, only the phone is able to determine the distance, not the APs.

Knowing the distance to 3 or more APs, you can calculate the device position with an accuracy of 1 to 2 meters. With this accuracy, you can build new experiences like in-building navigation; fine-grained location-based services such as disambiguated voice control (e.g.,'Turn on this light'); and location-based information (e.g., 'Are there special offers for this product?').

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/previewing-android-p.html

 

[Polymathic]

Peppermint seems the most likely name to me. The next version will have an interesting name though

 

[Suspect99]

What are they going to do when they run out of letters?

 

[AntennaMan]

What are they going to do when they run out of letters?

AA, BB, CC, ....

 

[Suspect99]

AA, BB, CC, ....

CCupcake, DDonut

 

[Dan C]

Peppermint seems the most likely name to me. The next version will have an interesting name though

Should be polony

 

[Ninja'd]

What are they going to do when they run out of letters?

Cyrillic alphabet, братан

 

[Lupus]

What are they going to do when they run out of letters?

Change it up a bit, instead of Cupcake you get Android Cheesecake or something

 

[pinball wizard]

What are they going to do when they run out of letters?

That's a good ten years away, but the best of reddit:

Maybe since Google owns Alphabet now, or visa versa, they'll just make up new letters.

 

[cpu.]

Change it up a bit, instead of Cupcake you get Android Cheesecake or something

Or use animal names like Linux.

Edit: perhaps not, since Apple already did it