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Originally Posted by leebase
Any idea what "goodness" should come from the Android 5.1 to 7.1 "under the hood" upgrade? Better battery life? (fingers crossed)
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Goodness: battery life, performance, and opt-in permissions.
The per app opt-in permissions been introduced in Android 6. You can prevent Facebook from having access to your contacts on phone or tablet. By default all permissions are off, you have to click "allow" for each permission seperately. In Android 7 the DVM got replaced by ART (in later versions of Android 6 ART was introduced as option in developer options). ART brings better performance (and by extension longer battery life) over Dalvik (DVM) by pre-compiling the java code (all apps in Android are written in Java) instead of just in time (aka JIT) as with Dalvik. Small downside, first boot will be slower as everything has to be pre-compiled.
That is about it in a nutshell, the rest is window dressing, IMO.