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Amazon Fire OS 8 adds updates from Android 10 and Android 11

Amazon recently announced its latest tablets, the Amazon Fire 7 and Amazon Fire 7 Kids. The Fire 7 tablet is the best bang for the buck in Amazon’s tablet line, with the latest editions offering an updated SoC, more RAM, better battery life, and Fire OS 8. According to Amazon, Fire OS 8 will incorporate updates from Android 10 and Android 11. What you need to know most about Fire OS 8 is that it will arrive first on the latest Fire 7 tablets when they go on sale in June.

Despite being powered by Android 10 and Android 11 under the hood, Fire OS 8 might not look all that different from previous iterations of Fire OS. That’s because Amazon only uses Android as a base and performs its own customizations on top. Thankfully, Amazon does have a developer website that gives us some details about what’s to come with Fire OS 8.

Amazon’s updating the foundation of Fire OS to something a bit more modern

Amazon’s next Fire 7 tablet will come with a new version of the company’s Fire OS operating system, called Fire OS 8 (h/t to Liliputing and AFTVNews). It’s based on Android 11, which is a pretty significant upgrade to the foundational tech currently powering Amazon’s tablets; the previous version, Fire OS 7, is based on Android 9, which was released in 2018.

According to Amazon’s developer documentation, the update could bring a few new user features. For one, it brings a system-wide dark mode to the OS that developers can make their app follow. Mostly, though, it’s good for privacy and security. Along with various updates to the permissions system, the upgrade should also make it easier for Amazon to push security patches. Google isn’t providing updates to Android 9 anymore.