How to Get Android N Features on Your Phone

Android N has brought about the many features that we enthusiasts were waiting for ever since Android Marshmallow was unveiled. We now have two developer previews, and even a BETA build now pushed out to Nexus devices, and all the features have become a crowd favorite. But, the only issue is that the Android N preview is unfortunately only available to Nexus users.

The agony that non-Nexus users like me get is unbeatable, and someone over at XDA Developers took this issue into consideration and has been working ever since to port almost all the best Android N features to any Android device out there. This was possible thanks to an Xposed module called ‘Android N-ify‘. This Xposed module allows you to get most of the Android N features on almost all Android devices out there.

In order for you to have Android N-ify installed, you need root access, and also an Xposed framework installed. You can follow a guide to get Xposed installed on your Android device. However, this module requires you to be on either Android Lollipop or Marshmallow, so if you’re not, we’re sorry, this guide isn’t for you. 🙁

Anyways, the good guys over at XDA Developers were also kind enough not only to list all of the things that work with this module, but those which are under development, and even those features that are practically impossible to bake inside a module.

Supported features:

New notifications and quick settings

New recents design

Settings tile summaries

Quick Switch (Double-tap recents to switch to last app)

Use recents button to navigate through recents

Planned features (ordered by priority):

Quick reply

New QS animation

Night mode

Navigation draver in Settings

Emergency info on lockscreen

Doze mode when device is moving (in the meantime you can use Greenifys “aggressive doze” feature)

IMPOSSIBLE features (so far):

Multi-window

DPI selector

Data saver