During the writing of this book, we were lucky enough to have a look at the upcoming Android N. The new version will probably be available at the end of 2016 as a stable release, after a few months of public developer preview.

Android N introduces a few interesting features, like the "Multi-Window" mode shown in the next image:

At Google, they are very focused on user feedback, and they decided to introduce this feature into the official version after a few months of testing by Samsung. Most of us will recognize the Multi-Windows mode from the already-available Android ROM, by Samsung. In Android N, this will be available for everybody, on every Android device, with full support for both orientations, portrait and landscape, and even the possibility to resize the split windows by dragging the "separator line".

According to lots of blog posts, one of the most popular categories for Google Play Store apps is Caller ID filters. With Android N, this feature will be already available as a system feature as for the new "mobile data saving" feature that aims to reduce background data consumption for specific apps.

One of the new UI enhancements that comes with Android N is the possibility to add and remove action icons in the scroll down quick settings menu, as shown in the next image:

Furthermore, the scroll down notification menu comes with a new notification design, that enables richer interactions, with quicker access to common actions, as shown in the next image:

The Settings section received a bit of love as well, with the new in-place notifications, like the one shown in the next image, that gives you the opportunity to disable or enable settings without navigating to the specific location:

The next image shows, also, the new Navigation Drawer that has been added to the Setting section, for a quicker navigation to the deeper menu levels:

An incredible amount of small fixes will be available in this new version, and lots of improvements are aiming to increase performance and battery life, as the most wanted doze on the go, that promises to be a game changer for Android devices.