[Android] Google launches the new Android 8.1 Developer Preview update

in android •  7 years ago  (edited)

Technology gaint Google just launched the developer preview of Android 8.1. The headline feature of the OS update seems to be a new "Neural Networks API" (NNAPI), which Google says "provides apps with hardware acceleration for on-device machine learning operations."
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"Hardware acceleration" sounds a lot like an API that will make use of the "Pixel Visual Core," the extra Google-designed SoC present in the Pixel 2. Perhaps the NNAPI will use the Pixel Visual Core on the Pixel 2, but on other devices it will use whatever other special hardware is available.

The beta is available for the Pixel 2 and 2 XL, the Pixel 1 and 1 XL, the Pixel C tablet, and the Nexus 6P and 5X. If you have a Google phone, you can opt in to the beta at Android.com/beta or manually flash your device with a system image and the Play Store is currently accepting apps targeting this new OS update.

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