Developers now have everything they need to develop and test apps with official Android O APIs.
Google on Thursday released the third developer preview of Android O, which comes with the final Android O APIs, the latest system images and an update to Android Studio.
The latest preview update includes the final API level 26 and « hundreds of bugfixes and optimizations, » Google said.
The final API 26 SDK is available with the SDK Manager in Android Studio, and Android Support Library 26.0.0 beta 2 from Google’s Maven repository. With these tools, Google said, developers have « everything you need to develop and test your apps with the official Android O APIs. »
Google made the mobile operating system available in beta last month at its I/O developer conference, after releasing the alpha version of the Android O developer preview in March. There will be one more preview update in July, and the consumer release will come « later in the summer, » Google said Thursday.
Android O’s new features include notification channels and dots to drive user engagement in apps, a picture-in-picture feature that can keep one app onscreen while users are multitasking, and autofill .
