From the Editor`s Desk: Android 8.1 and Oreo`s AI future
(Android Central)

Pixel Visual Core and Mate 10 event offer clues about what`s next for Android and AI. Google hasn`t yet (explicitly) announced Android 8.1 Oreo. But reading between the lines of two recent Android announcements, it gives us a small glimpse of the first Oreo maintenance release. Most significantly, expect a major focus on AI APIs that could bring exciting new features for Google Pixel 2 and Huawei Mate 10 owners. For starters, we`re about due an Android maintenance release before the end of the year. Just as Android 7.1 landed (for non-Pixels) in December of 2016, an 8.1 launch before the holidays would see Google maintaining the cadence of quarterly MRs that has been established through 2017. The first Oreo MR will be an 8.1 (as opposed to 8.0.1) mainly because of new the new APIs it`ll bring. Historically, a new API level almost always brings a 0.1 version bump for Android, for versions that aren`t also a whole new `dessert` release. How do we know there are new APIs coming? A...