LineageOS 15.1 with Android 8.1 Brings Theming, Updated Launcher and More

LineageOS 15.1 with Android 8.1 Is Now Officially Available

The fans of LineageOS finally go a gustatory modality of the latest version of Android with the release of the version 15.ane which is updated to Android 8.1 Oreo.

LineageOS which was born from the ashes of CyanogenMod about two years agone has rapidly risen in popularity in the AOSP ROM community. Yesterday, the official website of LineageOS told users that the aftermarket solution has been finally been updated to Android 8.i and gave the details most the new features that are coming to the ROM.

On superlative of bringing all the usual features which we associate with LineageOS, the fifteen.1 version brings some new features of its own, some of which are mentioned below:

LineageOS xv.1 New Features

Styles

The offset major change coming with 15.1 is the inclusion of Styles which allows users to choose a theme for bulk of the UI. Apart from choosing between a light and dark theme, users can likewise choose the accent colour which will be reflected throughout the interface and the stock apps. Styles include features like LiveDisplay and Automagic, which help in automatically switching between light and dark mode depending on the time of twenty-four hours or the wallpaper, respectively.

New Trebuchet

LineageOS 15.1 too comes with a newly redesigned launcher which does away with redundant features and introduces new ones similar icon pack support, adaptive icons for stock apps, and icon shape customizations.

QR support in Snap photographic camera

Snap photographic camera which is the default camera app that comes with LineageOS now natively back up QR code scanning for URLs, plain text, SMS, email addresses, contacts cards, events, phone numbers, and location coordinates.

LineageOS Supported Devices

Currently, LineageOS xv.1 only supports a handful of devices even so the mail promises to extend support for more devices in hereafter. The devices which are currently supported are:

Google Nexus 6P
Google Nexus 5X
LeEco Le Pro3
OnePlus three / 3T
OnePlus v
OnePlus 5T
Samsung Milky way Tab S2 9.7 Wi-Fi (2016)
Samsung Milky way Tab S2 viii.0 Wi-Fi (2016)
Xiaomi Mi 5
Xiaomi Mi 5S
Xiaomi Mi 5S Plus

For installation guides and other resources, yous tin visit the official website of LineageOS where you lot can find all the details. For people who are running Nightlies, they will starting time coming out today. Withal, do keep in listen that the Nightly builds do not back up OTA updates, hence you will take to manually flash it instead.