Android Jelly Bean 4.1

Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is the quickest and easiest version of Android yet. Jelly Bean improves on the simplicity and beauty of Android 4.0, and presents a new Search experience on Android.

Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and sleek. Moving between homepages and changing between applications is simple and easy, like turning pages in a book.

Jelly Bean features improved performance throughout the program, including quicker direction changes, quicker reactions when changing between recent applications, and better and more consistent making across the program through vsync and multiple internet.

Jelly Bean has more sensitive and consistent contact reactions, and makes your device even more sensitive by enhancing your CPU immediately when you contact the screen, and turns it down when you don’t need it to improve battery.

What’s new in Jelly Bean

Accessibility

With Jelly Bean, impaired customers can use ‘Gesture Mode’ to effectively get around the UI using touch and run activities along with conversation outcome.
With the new availability concentrate function, you can shift a pointer between controls to maintain a focus on for the next action or a source for the next routing event. You can dual tap anywhere to release the current product with availability concentrate.
Text traversal in availability now gives you more control – choose to shift between webpages, sentences, lines, terms or figures.
TalkBack, a screenreader for Android, now can handle activities to induce activities, to get around programs, and cross written text.
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Android Beam

With Android Beam, you can now easily share your pics and vids.
Instantly couple your phone or product to Bluetooth® gadgets like headphones or speakers that support the Simple Protected Coupling standard by just hitting them together.

Audio Accessories

Support for USB audio docks.

Browser and WebView

Web browser has improved performance, CPU and memory performance. With better performance for animated graphics and HTML5 canvases and an modified JavaScript Engine (V8), pages load faster and feel better.
Browser now has better HTML5 video support, and has a new buyer. Just touch the movie to play and stop, and easily conversion into and out of fullscreen method.
Browser now can handle the modified HTML5 Media Catch requirements on feedback elements.
WebView now can handle straight written text, including Dark red Text and other straight written text glyphs.

Calendar

Calenderis more buttery. Material ends in, animated graphics are spread throughout, and swiping/paging between days is better.
Calendar will now show occasion shades if you’ve given your occasion a shade on your PC.
The ‘Today’ choice on the activity bar now reveals the present day. When watching an event’s information, you can now e-mail all the visitors with just one tap.
Notifications for future activities now show more of the occasion information to let you easily see appropriate information without having to start the app.
Notifications for future activities now let you e-mail all the visitors without starting the app, and you can pick a fast reaction such as “Be there in 10 minutes” or kind your own.
A new choice in Schedule configurations allows you make your own standard fast reactions for posting visitors.
You can now quick sleep an future occasion memory right from the alert.
Calendar has a new 7″ product structure that is enhanced for the kind aspect.
When watching Schedule in symbol direction on pills, you can cover up or increase manages to give you finish management over how you perspective your Schedule area.
Calendar will now keep in mind whether you’ve selected to cover up or increase manages so you have a regular encounter watching Schedule whenever you start it.

Camera and Gallery

You can swipe from the camera viewfinder to quickly evaluation images you’ve taken without having to leave the camera app. You can run return to the camera viewfinder to start taking images again.
When watching images in Collection, you can touch to zoom capability out to enter “filmstrip mode” and rapidly evaluation images. When watching images in filmstrip method, you can run up or down to remove an individual picture. You can also reverse the remove with a single tap.
When taking images, a new computer animated sweeps your picture off the screen. There is now a new paging computer animated when using between photos
Camera functions a new computer animated for changing between the front-facing and returning cameras.
When focusing on an item in Camera, a new computer animated gives you visual reviews on your focus state.
Gallery functions a new computer animated when selecting images from within the record view and returning.

Data Usage

You can now dismiss a data usage warning without changing the data threshold set for warning notifications.
Disable background data usage on certain Wi-Fi SSIDs by designating them as mobile hotspots.
Android now automatically detects when one Jelly Bean device is tethered to another’s WiFi hotspot, and intelligently enables or disables background data usage on the SSID.

Face Unlock

Face Unlock is now quicker and much more exact, and start-up is smoother with a new animation.
You can improve face matching accuracy by calibrating your face in different conditions and with different accessories
Face Unlock can now optionally require a ‘blink’ to verify that a live person is unlocking the device rather than a photo.

Internationalization

Jelly Bean adds support for bidirectional text and more input languages to make the platform accessible to more people around the world.
There is improved support for Arabic and Hebrew, including a new Arabic font, in the platform.
You can now enter text in one of 18 new input languages, including Persian, Hindi and Thai. Additional Indic languages Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam are now supported by the platform.
Emoji from Unicode 6.0 will now render when received or viewed.
If the system language is set to Japanese, Japanese specific versions of glyphs will now be properly rendered.

Keyboard

The platform’s dictionaries are now more accurate and more relevant.
The language model in Jelly Bean adapts over time, and the keyboard features bigram prediction and correction.
You can now switch languages quickly with the dedicated language selector key on keyboard.
You can use custom keyboard input styles for more than 20 languages, with keymaps for QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and PC styles.
You can choose the input styles that you want to use for each keyboard, and use a hotkey to switch between them while typing

Messaging and Talk

New notifications display the full text of incoming SMS messages. When receiving an MMS, you can view the full photo in a notification.
When entering recipients for an SMS or MMS, a new UI collects recipients as chips, making it easier to compose messages.
Talk features a new notification style.

Notifications

You can now take action on notifications directly from the redesigned notifications shade.
Notifications from the same application are grouped together, and the first item is automatically expanded. You can also pinch notifications to expand or collapse them.
You now get an image preview in notifications after taking a screenshot. You can quickly share the screenshot directly from the notification.
You can lock automatic display rotation from the notifications shade on 7″ tablets.
For Wi-Fi only devices, quickly see the SSID of the access point you’re connected to from the notifications shade.
You can now touch-hold a notification to identify the application that created it and turn off notifications from that application if needed, as well as uninstall the application.

Networking

Wi-Fi protected setup is now supported with WPS push button and PIN support.
A new setting lets you stay on mobile data and avoid nearby Wi-Fi networks with poor connections.

News and Weather

News and Weather is updated to improve freshness and power consumption.

People

The People app is more buttery with smoother animations and improved search performance.
The People app now retrieves high res photos automatically for Google contacts with public Google+ profiles and displays higher res photos (720×720) on certain devices.
High res photos set on Google accounts will be backed up and synced across devices.
The People app has a new 7″ tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
You can now quickly add your favorite contacts to a home screen, directly from the contact’s details page.
The People app helps you organize your contacts and reduces duplicates with an Improved auto-joining algorithm.
You can now clear the frequently contacted list from the favorites tab in the People app.

Phone

When you miss a call, a new notification lets you return the call or reply by SMS with a single touch.
Incoming visual voicemails are displayed in a new notification that lets you play the message with a single touch.
When a call is ongoing, a new notification lets you hang up the call with one touch.
As part of Project Butter, the dial pad is more responsive. Call log scrolling is buttery smooth, and swiping between tabs in Phone is quick and fluid.
You can now clear your frequently contacted list in the favorite tab of Phone.
You can now add phone numbers from the call log to existing, read-only contacts.

Settings

Accounts are now displayed in the primary Settings view so you can easily see all the accounts you’re signed into on your device.
You can now easily access all Google Privacy Settings in one place by selecting your Google account from Settings.

System

Device encryption is now more reliable, and periodically reminds you to decrypt your device. Now, SMS messages and calls are declined when waiting for decryption.
You can long press the ‘Power Off’ option in the power menu to boot your device to safe mode.
A new ‘Reset app preferences’ button lets you quickly reset default applications for specific activities, background data restrictions, notifications suppressions, and more.
A redesigned dialog with larger icons lets you intuitively choose your preferred application for specific activities.
Google Apps Device Policy on your device may now override the ‘keep screen awake’ option from developer settings.

Text-to-speech

Jelly Bean introduces a new conversational text-to-speech voice in US English, available as both a network engine and an embedded engine via the TTS API.

Voice Typing

A new embedded speech recognizer lets you use Voice Typing even when you don’t have an Internet connection.

Widgets

Jelly Bean makes it easier to personalize your home screen. As you place widgets on the screen, everything else automatically moves to make room.
When they’re too big, widgets resize on their own. If you choose to resize a widget, apps and widgets will now also move out of the way.
You can now quickly remove apps or widgets from any home screen by picking them up and flinging them to the edge of the screen.
Launching apps and returning back home are now faster and smoother.

The new Google experience on Android

Google Search

With Jelly Bean, a redesigned experience uses the power of the Knowledge Graph to show you search results in a richer way. It’s easier to quickly get precise answers to search queries and explore and browse search results.
Get to Google Search faster: Google Search can be opened directly from the lock screen by swiping up. For devices with software navigation keys, you can now swipe up from the system bar to quickly access Google Search with Google Now. For devices with a hardware search key, you can tap it to launch Google Search.
If you’re using a wired headset, long press the headset’s button to activate Voice Search. You can quickly perform a search query by voice and have the result read back to you.
You can say “Google” to activate Voice Search from within Google Search.
For many search queries performed through Voice Search, you can now hear a spoken answer.
Voice Search recognition is now significantly faster so you can search quickly on the fly.
Voice Search can now recognize queries even when you have a poor network connection.

Google Now

Google Now brings you just the right information at just the right time. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them, and appear as a notification when they’re important. Learn more.

Weather card: When you start your day, Google Now shows weather for your current location and work.
Traffic card: Get traffic conditions and alternate routes before you leave home or work.
Transit card: When you’re near a bus stop or a subway station, this card shows you what buses or trains are next.
Places card: When you’re on the go, Google Now will suggest nearby bars, restaurants, and places of interest.
Flight card: See flight delays and traffic conditions to the airport for flights you’ve recently searched for.
Sports card: You can see live scores and upcoming games and also buy game tickets on the fly.
Currency card: When you’re traveling, quickly check the local conversion rate.
Translation card: When you’re in a foreign country, you can quickly translate words into the local language.

Google Apps

Google+

As you swipe through the stream, large bold photos now fall into place with animations giving you a more interactive browsing experience.
Google+ on tablets has a new magazines layout in the stream.
You can now create and manage Google+ Events right from your device. Posts and photos are saved to the event so you can relive the party any time.
Party Mode lets you instantly upload and share photos during an Event so you capture all the right moments in one place.
New notifications let you +1, comment, or reshare without having to open the Google+ app.
You can now see live video streams of all participants in a Hangout.
A new navigation menu lets you easily navigate through the app and quickly see Google+ notifications.
When viewing a post, you can now swipe to expand and view comments.

Gmail

Gmail has an optimized view for 7″ tablets in portrait orientation to give you a better experience reading email.
Gmail and Email feature updated notifications will give you a preview and digest of your inbox. Notifications will also now display the full text of new mail.

YouTube

YouTube has a new, more intuitive user interface, including a guide that provides quick access to your channel subscriptions.
YouTube can now preload videos from subscribed channels for seamless playback even on slower networks.
With a new integrated menu, you can easily watch YouTube on the big screen with Nexus Q or YouTube TV.

Maps

With support for offline maps, you can select an area to cache and access it even when you don’t have a data connection.
Compass Mode for indoor views and street view is more accurate and responsive with gyroscope support.
With Zagat ratings and reviews built in to Maps, you can quickly get the information you need about places you search for.
You can now browse Google Offers within Maps to find local deals.
Get indoor walking directions in Maps.

Currents

With performance enhancements throughout the application and updates to the user interface, you can browse articles quickly and intuitively. With an enhanced layout engine for articles, you can enjoy dramatic, large images on a variety of articles.
Currents now uses hardware acceleration to make moving between articles smoother.
Currents has a new 7″ tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor.
For editions written in other languages, you can now translate text into your preferred language.

Google Play

A new set of recommendations widgets use a variety of signals — content that people with similar tastes have purchased, stuff that’s popular around where you live, content people in your Google+ circles have +1′ed, and more — to recommend new content like apps, games, music, and movies.
A new My Library widget, which displays all of your recent movies, books, music, and magazines and dynamically changes based on what you’ve been engaging with recently.
Smart App Updates ensure that only the parts of an application that have changed will be downloaded when you next update it, saving on time, bandwidth, and battery when updating apps.
Jelly Bean introduces app encryption for paid apps.

Google Play Books

Embedded audio tracks and videos can now be easily streamed directly within the book you’re reading.
You can now add bookmarks to remember important information for later or pick up where you left off reading.
Play Books now offers fixed layout books, optimized for tablet-reading of books with beautifully designed graphics and layouts, like children’s books and comic books.
For visually impaired users, automatic text-to-speech settings have been enabled.

Google Play Movies and TV Shows

Movies and TV shows can be quickly downloaded for viewing offline, now with just one tap.
When you make a new purchase from Google Play, that item will be synced directly to the Play Movies and TV Shows app, ready for you to watch when you open the app.
You can watch Movies and TV Shows with Nexus Q by using the integrated media routing menu.
You can zoom in during video playback.

Google Play Music

A new Sound Search widget lets you identify songs you hear and purchase them directly from Google Play.
The Google Play Music widget now lets you thumbs up songs as their playing and features a new design for better readability.
Playlist art is automatically created based on the album art of songs in that playlist.
In the now playing bar, you can swipe between screens.
The Recent screen features larger album art.
You can delete tracks within the app.
There is a Now Playing queue of tracks.
There is an integrated media routing menu for listening to tracks on Nexus Q, Bluetooth audio devices and headsets.
You can set a song as your ringtone from Play Music, and the new ringtone editor lets you crop that track to the exact section you’d like to use for the ringtone.

Android Jelly Bean 4.1 [Change Log]

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Jul 23, 2012