Android N is now Android Nougat

Google announced on Snapchat today that Android N, the latest version of Android, will now go by Android Nougat. The announcement comes after the company said at I/O last month that users could submit suggestions for the name online.Android Nougat (likely Android 7.0) the next major version of Android following 6.x Marshmallow and will see the introduction of features such as split-screen multi-window support, direct-reply notifications and bundled notifications, plus improvements to the Doze feature (which extends battery life) and changes to the way Java is used and implemented, including support for Java 8.

Under-the-hood improvements such as support for the Vulkan gaming APIs should make Nougat devices even faster for gaming. Meanwhile, Android's 2016 release will introduce Google's VR platform, Daydream, on certified handsets