Google is already working on Android 7.1, here is what we can expect

Google launched the latest version of its mobile operating system called Android Nougat yesterday. The company was busy uploading Android 7.0 r1 source code to AOSP which was completed earlier this morning. Soon after, people started posting a detailed breakdown of all the commits added in the changelog and some of those bits gave hints to the upcoming features and hardware coming to the Nexus lineup.

There was a host of features leaked before the launch of Android Nougat 7.0 including Nexus launcher, Google Assistant, new navigation bar icons and mock animations to go with the navigation bar icons. All these features were absent making people think that these features have already been dropped off from active development. Nate Benis, a recognised XDA developer took to Google+ to announce that all the leaks we saw were leaked from Marlin, the upcoming new Nexus hardware.

Google right after the launch of Android Nougat 7.0 announced that the company will be switching to quarterly maintenance updates from the once a year major releases. According to crash logs reported by Android Police , Google is planning to bump the maintenance version to 7.1. The version was spotted from Google’s crash and report filter in the developer console.

According to the report, the maintenance build can make significant changes and may bring the API level to 25, which is being tested on Marlin. According to the company, the developer preview of the maintenance build will be available around this fall.