Dees_Troy speculates that this system can be utilized to allow users to boot between two different Android installations, like between a stock manufacturer firmware and, say, CyanogenMod.

Android 8.0 Oreo, the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, has a picture-in-picture (PiP) mode that shrinks videos down to a resizeable window.

British graphic designer Christian Tailor created this awesome animation of stylized Marvel and DC Comics heroes and villains, and now you can use it as the boot animation on your Android device.

UPDATE: It seems like Google changed its mind. EXT4 and F2FS will also be allowed, according to Mishaal Rahman. The EROFS file system format could help save storage space on Android 13 devices ...

This is done using Android N's file-based encryption, which enables direct boot to set fine grained encryption policies for system and app data.