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Android 8.0 | Oreo (2017)

Android Oreo is the eighth major release and the 15th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was released to the public on August 21, 2017.

It contains a number of major features, including notification grouping, 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 October 2020, 16.41% of Android devices run Oreo, with 5.98% on Android 8.0 (API 26) and 10.43% using Android 8.1 (API 27).


Android 8.1 is behind Android 10, by now the third still popular version.

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