Android O – Major Features
- Picture-in-Picture Mode
- Redesigned Settings Menu
- Enhanced cache data management
- Smart Text Selection
- Autofill Framework
- Notification Individual Snoozing
- TensorFlow Lite
- Google Play Protect
- Google Play Console Dashboards
- Notification dots with long-press actions on Home screen
- Release Date
- Q3 2017
- Code Name
- Oreo (tentative)
- Version Number
- 8.x (tentative)
- Supported devices
- Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus Player, Pixel C, Pixel, Pixel XL and new models of other OEMs HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Lenovo, Huawei, OnePlus, Xiaomi
iOS 11 – Major Features
- Redesigned App Store
- Redesigned and customizable Control Centre
- Merged Notifications and Lock Screen
- New Messages features
- Siri improvements
- New Camera features
- Live Photo Effects
- Indoor Maps and Lane Navigation
- AirPlay 2 and Apple Music improvements
Features exclusive to iPad
- Better Multitasking
- A new Files app
- Apple Pencil improved
- Release Date
- Fall 2017
- Supported devices
- iPhone 5s and above, iPad 4 and above, iPad mini 2 and above, iPod Touch 6
Android Apps for QA Toolkit
(Nice to have)
Key takeaways for Engineering team
MobileGo
Fast and simple solution to clean and boost Android device speed.
MoreLangs
Quicker solution to perform locale based testing.
AZ Screen Recorder
Recording user sessions, extremely helpful in bug triage.
Barista - Test Recorder
Provide hooks for mobile automation by generating Espresso, UIAutomator and Appium tests directly from the device.
News Flash
Open-source Automation Tools release updates are:
- Calabash-Android released a newer version 0.9.1.pre2
Download link | Release notes - Calabash-iOS released a newer version 0.20.5
Download link | Release notes - Appium released a newer version 1.6.5
Download link | Release notes
Mobile OS release updates are:
- Apple released a newer iOS version 11 beta 3 (build 15A5318g)
Download link | Release notes* iOS version 11 links are accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Google released a newer version Android O (Developer Preview 4)
Download link - Microsoft released a newer Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15228 for Mobile
Demo link | Release notes
Mobile OS SDK release updates are:
- Apple released a newer Xcode version 9 beta 2 (build 9M137d)
Download link | Release notes* Xcode version 9 download link is accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Android SDK’s latest released dependency versions are:
Download link | Release notes- SDK Tools 25.2.5 - SDK Platform 26.1 - SDK Build-Tools 26 - SDK Platform-Tools 26
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