Launch Actions
Launch actions are the biggest addition to Android 7.1.1 in my opionion. The ability to get to where you want to in an app without having to find it within the app itself is really quite useful. To use this feature you just long press on an app icon and it will bring up a range of shortcuts. You can still move icons in the same way by long pressing and dragging. For now it seems like only Google apps have these shortcuts but I'm sure that developers will soon start adding support. However, since the first beta Twitter has added Launch actions to their app.
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Gender Equality Emoji
There is a host of new emoji in this Nougat update. One the main additions is job based emoji now have both male and female representation. There are also loads of now job emoji such as rock star and teacher.
GIF Keyboard
Conclusion
There is now an option to send a GIF straight from your keyboard in Android 7.1.1 in supported apps such as Allo, Hangouts and Google Messenger.
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Android 7.1.1 is a very good update to the already brilliant 7.0 Nougat adding features that make the OS easier to get around with Launch actions. With this likely to be the last big update to Nougat I can't wait to see what comes with Android O although it is likely that this will be a small update similar to the step between to Lollipop and Marshmallow.
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