# SoftBank Robotics documentation What's new in NAOqi 2.8?

# Release Notes - 2.6

## Pepper meets Android!

This is a very special release, the first to support Google’s Android OS and Google Mobile Services.

### Google account supported

The Getting Started Wizard has been reworked to allow users to associate their robot with a Google account, while simplifying the robot configuration overall.

### Google Mobile Services supported

Pepper‘s display now supports Google Mobile Services.

### Android apps running on Pepper‘s display

Pepper supports regular Android applications to be run and activities to be shown on his display.

### Settings menu reworked

Settings is now a regular Android application, but also includes robot-specific options.

For further details, see: Getting started wizard.

## Important notices

### Check compatibility

2.6 version is only compatible with the hardware of the Pepper 1.8a.

### Choregraphe and former SDKs not available

2.6 focus is on Android, so new development tools have been designed in order to provide Choregraphe-like functionalities at hand for Android Studio.

### Pepper SDK plug-in for Android Studio

Android Developers can now take advantage of the robot, and can use a dedicated set of tools integrated in Android Studio.

These tools, designed along the lines of Choregraphe‘s well-known functionalities, such as the animation editor and view, the trajectory editor, the robot browser and the robot view.

For further details, see: Pepper SDK for Android.

And also:

- Robot emulator,
- Robot viewer,
- Animation Editor,
- Trajectory editor,
- Animation Browser / Viewer,
- Chat Editor.

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