[X Style (Pure) General] ResistanceIsFutile:
Thanks for your update and in the impressions you got of Nougat. ;)

The phone shipped with the operating system Android 5.1.1 Lollipop & in Nougat it's just offering you a little more.

Along with your two mentions, here's a rundown of all major changes that's been seen on the stock OS build updating us to Nougat.

But first,

there's a secret hidden "UI Tuner" menu you can add to settings on your device.

The UI Tuner was available in stock Marshmallow and made it to Nougat for our device (MXP) with a few options - which it's not available in most Nougat OEM versions of Android.

To enable the hidden "UI Tuner" menu, swipe down the notification shade and long-press the gear icon (5-7 seconds) as in you'd use to get the Settings menu up.

Now Settings should open-up and scroll down next to the very bottom entry. You'll find a new listing in your Settings menu under the "System" section for it.

Enacting this feature - prompts a warning that you're about to encounter "experimental features" that "may change, break, or disappear in future releases. Proceed with caution."

You’ll know you did things right if you see a little wrench symbol next to the Settings gear, as to with this feature being set or actively used.

To remove it - same long press on the gear icon or using it's 3 dot menu top right from it's open screen gives that option to "Remove and stop using all of it's features".

One thing interesting is the opportunity to set up an app notifications on a scale from Level 1 (Never show notifications) all the way up to Level 6 (Always peek, and allow full-screen disruption - Show at the top of the notification list).

To use > just enact the aforementioned hidden UI Tuner and then toggle-ON "Power notification controls" (under the "Other" menu).

Now, go into Settings > Notifications, and you'll be able to set each of your app's notification level after tapping on the large green "A" to the sliders left, setting up one of the 6 levels for an app.

Normally, Android leaves most of an app's notification preferences up to the developer. Nougat gives you a small set of options to adjust those, but they're fairly simple with:

You can block all of a given app's notifications, make them all silent, or prioritize them to override Do Not Disturb mode.

You can do other things as well in the "UI Tuner" menu,

"Status bar" tab to mess with how things look in Android’s status bar. One handy toggle lets you see the battery percentage over the top of that icon, for instance.

You can also adjust the clock to show seconds alongside minutes and hours, you can also change which settings you want to be in the status bar in the first place.

“Do Not Disturb” mode, tweak it so a toggle shows up whenever you adjust the volume.

Rundown of all major changes:

Notifications - Revamped

Nougat brings a new and different look, feel and the use of notifications.

Notifications are wider and fill the entire screen, and there's less space vertically between each notification.

Depending on the app, you can tap some notifications and do a direct reply rather than having to completely open up the app.

Split-screen

Use more than one app in a single screen, just open up one app you want to use then press and hold down the square-shaped overview button at the bottom right to choose from other apps to add to screen.

Both open on the same screen without having to flip back and forth between the two. Not all apps support split-screen mode yet, but most do.

New use for the Overview button

By double-tapping the Overview button you can now quickly navigate back to whatever app you were previously using.

You can do the double-tap from within another app (switch back and forth between the two most recent apps). or from your home screen as it works the same way.

You can still single-tap the Overview key to view a card-based list of your recently used apps as well.

And from that screen, you can now keep single-tapping the Overview key to cycle quickly through the cards and find what you want.

Like split-screen mode, this ability to flip back and forth between apps will appeal to power users, and shows Google realizes more and more users want to multitask on their phones.

Toggles handling made better with Pull-Down Shade Editing

You have two toggle menus, a quick one that appears when you swipe down the shade (also known as the quick settings menu), Android also gives you a limited choice over what toggles you want to appear here.

And then a complete menu with all the available toggles when you tap the down arrow at the top right pf the screen.

Settings Menu - Revamped

The upper right corner now has a search button to let you dig through your system settings more easily by key-words. You'll also see certain key settings in little notifications at the very top, such as if you have Data Saver turned on, if you're using cellular data or not and if you're in Do Not Disturb mode.

New and improved Doze Mode

Android introduced Doze Mode with Marshmallow to save the device's battery life.

The trick then was that your phone had to be physically stationary for Doze to work.

You couldn't for example, be walking with your phone bouncing along in your pocket.

Now, as of Nougat, Doze starts up as soon as your screen goes off and will still work even if your phone is moving.

As with Marshmallow, Doze comes automatically baked into Nougat so there's nothing you need to do to enable it.

File-based Encryption

Previous Android operating systems have encrypted your phone using full-disk encryption, where your phone basically gets encrypted as one giant unit.

"File-based encryption better isolates and protects individual users and profiles on a device by encrypting data at a finer granularity", according to the Android Developer blog.

"Each profile is encrypted using a unique key that can only be unlocked by your PIN or password, so that your data can only be decrypted by you."

Direct Boot

Google has changed Android's underlying encryption scheme so that some apps can boot before you even enter your device PIN/Password.

"Now of your phone’s main features, like the phone app and your alarm clock, are ready right away before you even type your PIN/Password, so people can call you and your alarm clock can wake you up,"

Google states this on the Android Developer Blog.

Data Saver

Apps that run in the background can burn through your monthly data really quickly.

With Data Saver, however, Nougat lets you keep apps from running in the background unless you're on WiFi, saving your precious data plan.

Even more for Nougat - though some may not be directly applicable for our XT1575 device.

Unicode 9.0 emoji and skin tone modifier support (and exposes a subset of ICU4J APIs).

Ability to display color calibration.

Ability to screen zoom.

Added User Emergency information part.

Added the "Clear All" button in Overview screen.

Another system partition, which gets updated when not in use, allowing for seamless system updates.

Daydream virtual reality platform (VR interface).

Improvements to file browser.

New JIT Compiler, making for 75 percent faster app installations and a 50 percent reduction in compiled code size.

Just in Time (JIT) compiler with code profiling to ART, which lets it constantly improve the performance of Android apps as they run.

Picture-in-picture support for Android TV.

Replaced notification cards with notification sheets.

Settings app navigation drawer.

Vulkan 3D rendering API.

Multiple Device Locales.

The last two Android OS's have boasted hidden Flappy Bird games with either Marshmallow or Lollipop themes.

Nougat changes it up with some kind of weird cat game. Okay, so here's what you do:

1) You initially access this Easter egg like the others: Settings > About Phone > repeatedly tap "Android 7.0" to prompt a giant Nougat logo (a big "N").

2) Long tap or tapping ending in a long tap on the "N" logo until you see a little cat emoji at the bottom of the screen.

3) Swipe down from the top to bring up the notification shade.

4) Hit "Edit" and scroll down and you'll find a little cat face icon with the label "???? Android Easter egg."

5) Drag and drop that cat face icon with the label "???? Android Easter egg" above the fold wherever you'd like.

6) Now when you swipe down the shade, you'll see a tile for "empty dish." Tap that to prompt a choice of four cat treats and choose one.

7) Now, wait and eventually your phone will notify you that you've caught a cat.

NOTE: Everything worked except for seeing something after my making a choice of the four cat treats - could be cause I have cell data turned off, though Wi-Fi was working, or I don't have a G. account linked to this phone, or I refused to take any play or G. type updates to the device ???

I don't play games anyways so no loss to me, nor entertain an open ideal for GOOGLE to know all about me using Android or the related apps.

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