ile it was long thought that had aboned its xel tablet, 7.1.2 brings the xel phone’s launcher navigation buttons to the tablet screen. That means xel C users will now access their apps by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, the search widget will now be a pill-shaped “G” logo pinned to the left side of the home screen. Furthermore, folders adopt the xel phone’s way of displaying icons, instead of the previous carousel-style stacking. There’s also some new on-screen navigation buttons. Instead of the outlined triangle square, they’re now filled in to match the ones on the xel. However, since Assistant hasn’t yet made its way to tablets, you won’t find a telltale ring around the home button. But where 7.1.2 really departs from 7.1.1 is with the multitasking interface. Gone is the traditional stacked cards interface that occupied the center of the screen, in its place is a 4×4 grid of your eight most recently used apps. To select one, just tap the image of the screen to bring it full-screen, or you can also drag one of the items to one to the side of the screen to activate the multi-window interface. Once an app is pinned, the remaining screens will resize to fit alongside it you can select a second one. As far as phones go, there are a series of minor tweaks bug fixes, though the Nexus 5X will be getting swipe gestures for the fingerprint sensor, there’s a new alert for apps that are using too much battery. The update has already started rolling out to xel, xel X xel C, Nexus 6 Nexus 5X, Nexus ayer devices, but you find the factory images here. C change: l of a sudden, Android tablets are relevant again. First Samsung released the Galaxy Tab S3 is showing some actual attention to the xel C. Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.
