Watch as Google announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean- Video.
The next major version of Android is here. Carrying the name Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 puts plenty of new features and performance updates to the table.
Firstly, Jelly Bean focuses on performance. More specifically, improving UI responsiveness. Google has dedicated a whole project codenamed Butter to improving Android performance.
By making the vsync of the screen at a constant 60 frames per second, it makes the UI smooth as, you've guessed it, butter. It even goes as far as to anticipating where your finger is and start drawing from that point to make the UI appear even smoother.
Google showed two Galaxy Nexus smartphones, one running Ice Cream Sandwich and the other Jelly Bean and showed the huge difference that project butter makes. It's really quite impressive.
The keyboard typing is also improved, making it more predictive and adding more brains to the dictionary.
On top of that, it's made the Voice Typing available offline. On the demo it worked pretty well by fixing a misheard word (from Known to Though. Accessibility has also been improved adding new gestures and external support for Brail input.
Taking photos got more intuitive as well. Now, in Jelly Bean there's a new and you can swipe sideways to access the gallery (yes, like on the WP smartphones). You can then quickly delete images by swiping them off the screen.
The notification bar has also seen its fair share of changes. It shows you a more prominent looking clock, as well as a lot of more powerful notifications from various apps like Music, Pulse and Gmail.
Making a Google search has gotten a lot more powerful. Natural language commands are now supported as Google is obviously ready to mount a serious challenge to Siri like.
When you initiate a search you get a minimalist design card. What's really cool is when you swipe to the left it shows you a list of Google Search results.
Google Now is another new part of Google Search, which can show you public transport listings, flight information as well as sports results.
Jelly Bean will be available mid-July with a developer SDK preview available right now on the Android Developers website.
The next major version of Android is here. Carrying the name Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 puts plenty of new features and performance updates to the table.
Firstly, Jelly Bean focuses on performance. More specifically, improving UI responsiveness. Google has dedicated a whole project codenamed Butter to improving Android performance.
By making the vsync of the screen at a constant 60 frames per second, it makes the UI smooth as, you've guessed it, butter. It even goes as far as to anticipating where your finger is and start drawing from that point to make the UI appear even smoother.
The keyboard typing is also improved, making it more predictive and adding more brains to the dictionary.
On top of that, it's made the Voice Typing available offline. On the demo it worked pretty well by fixing a misheard word (from Known to Though. Accessibility has also been improved adding new gestures and external support for Brail input.
Taking photos got more intuitive as well. Now, in Jelly Bean there's a new and you can swipe sideways to access the gallery (yes, like on the WP smartphones). You can then quickly delete images by swiping them off the screen.
The notification bar has also seen its fair share of changes. It shows you a more prominent looking clock, as well as a lot of more powerful notifications from various apps like Music, Pulse and Gmail.
Making a Google search has gotten a lot more powerful. Natural language commands are now supported as Google is obviously ready to mount a serious challenge to Siri like.
When you initiate a search you get a minimalist design card. What's really cool is when you swipe to the left it shows you a list of Google Search results.
Google Now is another new part of Google Search, which can show you public transport listings, flight information as well as sports results.
Jelly Bean will be available mid-July with a developer SDK preview available right now on the Android Developers website.
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