Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Recently on June 2012, Google announced a new version of Android Operating System i.e.
Android 4.1 code named ‘
Jelly Bean‘.
Before moving to this version of Android lets have some overview of Android Operating System and some of its versions.
Android is an Operating System for Mobile developed by
Google and the
Open Handset Alliance.
Many versions of Android Operating System have been released. They are in alphabetical order and related to treats :
- Cupcake (1.5) ,
- Donut (1.6),
- Éclair (2.0 / 2.1),
- Froyo (2.2) ,
- Gingerbread (2.3),
- Honeycomb (3.0),
- Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0),
- and Jelly Bean (4.1)
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Android Version 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean’ is an improvement over earlier versions of Android. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has improved in performance and has many new features.
Jelly Bean will be available firstly in the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and Motorola Xoom in mid-July 2012.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean brings plenty of new features :
Google Search or Google Now :
One of the new features added to Android Jelly Bean is
Google Now.
It is an Improvement in Google Search that gives you search result
considering user’s location, activities, interests, habits and other
relevant information.
For example, a user is at new city, and facing Medical emergency and
want to go to nearest Hospital, Google Now feature gives you appropriate
information automatically. In the case of this example, it displays
roads to the nearest hospital , and can also notify about traffic on the
roads. Thus, it shows different routes, Hospital Information and
traffic as well.
Google Now is the smartest feature and enhancement to Google Search.
You can use Voice Typing for asking questions and get the results.
Project Butter :
The Name which we are hearing with Android Jelly Bean is
Project Butter.
Smoothness, Responsiveness and fluid are now butter smooth in Android Jelly Bean so name of this feature is “Project Butter” .
With Android Jelly Bean, new technology
(this technology is smooth like butter) has been introduced by Google
named ‘Project Butter’. Project Butter focuses on Vsync, Tripple Buffering, Touch Responsiveness.
CPU, GPU and display are the main components used to display anything on screen and
Triple Buffering makes it possible to work together for smooth animation and more consistent rendering.
Graphical Performance increases as frame rate increases.
Vsync increases this rate to 60 frames per second, makes UI more smoother and improving UI Responsiveness.
Touch Responsiveness speed up user interface responsiveness, reduce latency by synchronizing touch to vsync timing , smoothing user experience.
Camera :
Jelly Bean camera app allows you to access images directly from Camera.
With this feature user can delete unwanted
images by swiping them off the screen and can also undo the deletion and
can get images back. Jelly Bean camera app provides best quality of
camera and an innovative way to swipe between photo gallery and camera
to make things simple and smooth while taking pics.
Keyboard enhancements and offline voice input :
In Android Jelly Bean, there is one feature added called
offline voice typing
i.e. no need to be connected to the internet to use the voice typing
feature. So, when you have no internet connection or low data
connection, your work will not stop and you can still get good
performance i.e.
offline voice typing.
Android Jelly Bean also provides you smarter keyboard with
extended dictionary and many more.They have support for Hindi and 18 more languages as an input.
Notifications :
Android Jelly Bean provides new
widgets to home screen and new way to view notifications instead of following several steps. Here it gives you
Notification bar that can be expanded and collapsed with a click.
Say for example, there are some new mails in
your inbox and notification bar expansion will show you a portion of
your mail inbox rather than just simple information like you have new
mail in your inbox.
Android Beam:
Android Jelly Bean allows users to share photos, videos, files, etc using technology called NFC : Near Field Communications.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich also shares data through NFC but it has
limited ability but Android Jelly Bean do sharing between two devices
from NFC to Bluetooth.
This feature makes sharing or transfer very smooth and easily between
two devices, it allows sharing by tapping two devices together.
With Android Beam, Now NFC can connect other devices in wireless
connection to tap a bluetooth device and your phone and can share
anything.
Say For Example, User want to send a pic from Galaxy Nexus to Nexus 7
tablet, user will load the pic up on the Galaxy Nexus and touch it to
the rear of the tablet.
Smooth like silk, delightful and faster in performance, Quickest Responder ,
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean contains above described features as well as having features like
Gesture Mode for better Accessibility ,
Knowledge Graph for Search, and
Google Cloud Messaging and many more.
This is a little effort to make you aware of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean…Hope U Like it
