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Android 8.0 Oreo (March 2017)
Google officially announced the release of the first developer preview of Android O
or Android 8.0 in March 2017. In August, Google confirmed that Oreo would be the
public name for Android 8.0. After Android KitKat, it was second time that Google
used a trademarked name for Android as Oreo is owned by Nabisco. Android Oreo
had many useful features like it had lots of visual changes to the Settings menu,
along with native support for picture-in-picture mode, new autofill APIs for better
management of passwords and fill data, notification channels, and more. We can
download Android Oreo via Google’s Android Open Source Project and it is also
available as as update for Google’s older Nexus and Pixel devices which are
supported. Android Oreo also comes with Google’s Pixel 2 and other new
smartphones in the market.