Moreover, with Android M features such as Doze, our screen-off battery life has been vastly improved.” Therefore, we doubled down on USB C rather than wireless charging. With this year’s Nexii, we support USB Type-C which has a reversible connector and it charges incredibly swiftly: 10 minutes of charging gives you up to 4 hrs of battery life on the Nexus 5X and up to 7 hrs on the Nexus 6P. Overall thickness and feel in hand were important factors in our design decisions.

Why do the phones have camera bumps rather than flat backs with bigger batteries or Qi wireless charging?: “We wanted the design of the phone to be approachable, easy to hold and easy to use.

What do “X” and “P” in Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P mean? “X for the core of the Nexus brand (plus it sounds cool!), P for premium.”.

Google’s Nexus team took to Reddit today to partake in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, and in the process they revealed lots of interesting tidbits about the new Nexus phones. Thankfully, Google’s Nexus team is here to help. And while Google showed off a number of the phones’ features yesterday, there are still a lot of questions to be answered. The API is parcelable, AIDL friendly, and exposes useful features like removing write permissions.Yesterday Google took the wraps off of the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P, its big new phones for the year. Apps can map anonymous shared memory and manage protection controls using the SharedMemory API. Shared memory API - this new API lets apps allocate shared memory for faster access to common data.For example, we've added support for more UI customization of the Save dialog, as well as setAutofillOptions() for users to set credit card expiration using a spinner. Autofill enhancements - we've made it easier for password managers and other Autofill services to use the Autofill framework.Stay tuned for TensorFlow Lite announcements. We designed the Neural Networks API as a foundational layer for ML frameworks like TensorFlow Lite - Google's upcoming cross-platform ML framework for mobile - as well as Caffe2 and others. It enables hardware-accelerated inference operations on supported devices. Neural Networks API - as part of our efforts to bring machine intelligence to Android, we've added a Neural Networks API via the NDK.We've added new hardware feature constants so you can now target the distribution of your apps and APK splits to normal or low-RAM devices running Android 8.1 and later.

Android Go memory optimizations and targeting - Android 8.1 includes a set of memory optimizations for Android Go configurations (1GB or less of memory).

Android 8.1 includes select new features and developer APIs (API level 27), along with the latest optimizations, bug fixes, and security patches.

Nexus 6p software stabilization