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Android Oreo
Eighth major version of the Android mobile operating system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Android Oreo (codenamed Android O during development) is the eighth major release and the 15th version of the Android mobile operating system.
Version of the Android operating system | |
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General availability | August 21, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-08-21)[1] |
Final release | 8.1.0_r93 (OSN1.210329.015)[2] / October 4, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-10-04) |
Final preview | 8.1.0 (OPP6.171019.012) / November 27, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-11-27) |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
Preceded by | Android 7.1.2 "Nougat" |
Succeeded by | Android 9 "Pie" |
Official website | www![]() |
Support status | |
Unsupported as of October 4, 2021 |
It was initially unveiled as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2017 and later made available to the public, on August 21, 2017.
It contains a number of major features, including notification channels, picture-in-picture support for video, performance improvements, and battery usage optimization, and support for autofillers, Bluetooth 5, system-level integration with VoIP apps, wide color gamuts, and Wi-Fi Aware. Android Oreo also introduces two major platform features: Android Go – a software distribution of the operating system for low-end devices – and support for implementing a hardware abstraction layer.
As of August 2023, Android Oreo (which has ceased receiving security updates as of October 2021) ran on a combined 4.36% of Android devices (1.07% on Android 8.0 and 3.21% on Android 8.1).[3]