That was fast. Bixby, Samsung’s new virtual assistant for the company’s new Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone, is now working on older Samsung phones running Android 7.0 Nougat.
But not officially. A person who goes by the handle takerhbk in a forum on the Android website XDA-Developers managed to get Bixby working on top of the S8’s launcher, which leaked earlier this week. And then takerhbk shared the Android Package Kit (APK) file for Bixby itself, alongside the APK for the launcher.
XDA-Developers’ Mishaal Rahman noted that he got Bixby working on his Galaxy S7,…