Google usually announces a new version of Android at its annual developer conference called I/O. This year, however, we've already seen two Android N Developer Preview releases, so the search giant doesn't have anything new to announce.
Aside from the usual battery of performance improvements and fixes and whatnot, this release brings with it a new update mechanism that emulates the one used in Chrome OS. Basically, whenever a new software update is available, your device will automatically download it in the background, and then automatically install it the next time you restart your phone or tablet.
New in Android N is a VR mode, for example. This mode gives VR apps priority access to the CPU and GPU on a phone and adds a couple of software techniques for making the latency between your head movements and the time updates to reflect this as short as currently possible.
Today the company is pushing out the third big release of the Android N Developer Preview. According to the company, this is the first "beta quality" iteration of the next OS version, so you may even get away with installing it on your main device without any nastiness.
One change now is that the phone won’t immediately prompt you to install and update, though. Instead, it will first wait for you to restart your device. After you’ve restarted your device and the update has been applied, Android also won’t ask you to re-enter your password if you typically use a fingerprint scanner or other means of authenticating.
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