The iPhone 6s innovated with a feature that until that moment had not arrived in any smartphone (except in the Huawei Mate S launched shortly before), which was the detection of pressure on the screen. It remains to be determined if it will really be the future of mobile phones and if it is something really useful, but it seems that it will not be a feature that will be present at the launch of the new version of the Android N operating system.
There are already mobiles with this technology
There are Android phones that already have a pressure sensing technology similar to the iPhone's 3D Touch. The Huawei Mate S is one of those cases, for example, and it was launched even before Apple's mobile. But there are more cases. Even Meizu has its own technology, mPress. For all this, we believed and it seemed clear that Android N, the new version of the operating system that will be launched this summer, would have a similar technology for detecting pressure on the screen. This technology would actually be part of an API that manufacturers could use, being common for all Android mobiles, and Google being the one that would offer this technology to manufacturers, which would save them a lot of work, and would achieve that the quality of said technology was expected.
However, it seems that finally Android N will not arrive when it is launched with this technology. At least that's what the latest information tells us. It is believed that it could receive an update in the future that would include such technology. In other words, we would not have to wait another year for a new version, but a maintenance update would already be launched that would add that feature. In any case, it is not great news for Android, nor for manufacturers, who will have to decide what to do, whether to continue working on their own technologies, to later integrate Google's, or whether to directly renounce said technology until Google integrates it natively in Android. Meanwhile, the iPhone 7 is already preparing its launch for the second half of this year. Without a doubt, a problem for both the operating system and the manufacturers.