Google just released the Android 8.1 preview to developers

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by Sindy Cator on October 25, 2017 at 6:06 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Mobile

Android 8.0 might have just launched in August, but Google is already working on its next big update. The company today announced a developer preview for Android 8.1, with a final release due sometime around December. So far, it doesn’t seem like there are too many useful features in 8.1 for the average user. This preview includes a few changes for developers, such as hardware acceleration for on-device machine learning, new memory management features, and improvements to autofill. It’s not clear if the biggest update we know is coming with 8.1 – activating the Pixel 2’s secret image processing chip –…