14 DAY TRIAL // After having announced Android M in front of the whole world during its I/O 2015 keynote speech, Google has released the Android M Developer Preview for a couple of Nexus devices, including the Nexus 5, 6, 9 plus the Nexus Player.
Just like last year, when the search giant released a Lollipop developer preview for the Nexus 5, this year, early adopters will be offered a glimpse of what’s to come. But we still have some time ahead of us until the final version of Android M is unleashed.
Speaking at the “What’s new in Android?” talk at Google I/O, Chet Haase has shed some light on how the Android team plans to update the latest Developer Preview.
Google is looking to do things a little bit differently than with Android L Developer Preview last year. With this in mind, the search giant has set up an update plan for Android M. So we should expect to see the first update sometime towards the end of June and then a second one towards the end of July.
Android M might be commercially available this fall
These updates will come bundling changes based on feedback from developers. So if Google sticks with this plan, it means that the final shipping release of Android M will be this fall.
For the time being, the initial version of the Android M Developer Preview is currently available for download, along with the SDK from the Android Developer web page, so if you have one of the Nexus devices mentioned above at your disposal, you can go ahead and try it out.
Users who flash it on their phone are bound to receive future updates OTA. However, before you embark on this journey, you should first and foremost be careful and back up all the content on your phone. Installing these system images on a Nexus smartphone/tablet removes all data from the device.
Also take into consideration that Android preview system images are not stable releases and may contain errors and defects that can damage your computer system. So proceed with caution.
Once on your device, the Android M Developer Preview will allow users to test new features such as “Doze,” granular permission and app links.
