Responsive’ Android Jelly Bean – The Coolest OS To Build Your Apps

Get ready to experience the fast, fluid, and smooth feel of Jelly Bean as it helps you move seamlessly between home screens and apps. The new OS comes with enhanced performance right through the system that includes quicker responses when switching between recent apps, faster orientation changes; besides an added consistent rendering across the system through vsync and triple buffering.

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Jelly Bean also has increased reactive and uniform touch responses that make your device even more responsive by enhancing your device’s CPU instantly on touching the screen, and even turning it down when you don’t need it, so as to improve battery life. So, what’s new!

Android Beam

Android Beam allows you to share your photos and videos easily and instantly by pairing your phone or tablet to Bluetooth® devices like headsets or speakers that support the Simple Secure Pairing standard and tapping them together.

Audio Accessories

Jelly Bean will offer support for USB audio docks, shipping later this year.

Browser and WebView

Browser function in Jelly Bean OS comes with improved HTML5 video support and new user experience. You just have to touch the video to play and pause, and seamlessly transit into and out of fullscreen mode. Moreover, WebView now supports vertical text, including Ruby Text and other vertical text glyphs.

Calendar

The Calendar feature in Jelly Bean has certain depth that allows content to fade, besides encouraging a smoother swiping/paging between days. You can also display event colors if you’ve given your event a color on your PC. The Calendar in Jelly Bean now comes with a new tablet layout that is optimized for the form factor. Besides a new option in the Calendar settings allows you to you create your own default quick responses for emailing guests. You can also snooze a forthcoming event reminder right from the notification.

Moreover, Jelly Bean allows you to hide or expand controls so as to give you complete control over how you view your Calendar space, when viewing Calendar in portrait orientation on tablets. It will also remember whether you’ve chosen to hide or expand controls so that you have consistent experience viewing Calendar whenever you open it.

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Camera and Gallery

The new Camera App in Android Jelly Bean allows you to swipe from the camera viewfinder to quickly review photos you’ve taken without having to leave the camera app. Also, for viewing photos in Gallery, you just have to pinch to zoom out to enter “filmstrip mode” and rapidly review photos. And in case you want to view photos in filmstrip mode, you can swipe up or down to delete an individual photo or undo delete with just a tap.

The Camera also has an animation feature for switching between the front-facing and back cameras. So also, the Gallery features a new animation when selecting a photo from within the album view and back.

Face Unlock

The Face Unlock feature introduced in Android has now become quicker with better accuracy and smoother setup facilitated by a new animation. An interesting twist to the feature that Face Unlock now requires you to ‘blink’ to verify that a live person is unlocking the device rather than a photo (although it is optional). Moreover, you can also improve on face matching accuracy by adjusting your face in various poses and accessories (like hat, head-gears, glasses, etc).

Internationalization

Jelly Bean now has been offering support for bidirectional text and more input languages. This is to improve the accessibility of the platform to more people around the world. Along with improved support for Arabic and Hebrew, including a new Arabic font; one can now enter text in one of 18 new input languages, including Persian, Hindi and Thai.

Another, significant inclusion is that Emoji from Unicode will now render whenever received or viewed. So, if you set the system language to Chinese, Chinese specific versions of glyphs will now be properly rendered.

Keyboard


The platform’s dictionaries in the new Android, Jelly Bean are now more accurate and more pertinent. While the language model in Jelly Bean adapts over time, the keyboard features bigram prediction and correction. Moreover, the new Android OS allows you to quickly switch languages with the dedicated developers - https://jatapp.com/services/dedicated-development-team/ - language selector key on keyboard. The new Android OS version also allows you to use custom keyboard input styles for more than 20 languages, with keymaps for QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and PC styles.

Messaging and Talk

In Jelly Bean, you can find the full text of incoming SMS messages being displayed by new notifications; and even have the full photo view in a notification while receiving an MMS. Apart from the inclusion of the talk features as a new notification style, composing messages is made easier in the latest Android update as the new UI collects recipients as chips, when entering recipients for an SMS e or MMS.

Notifications

Jelly Bean allows you to take action on notifications directly from the redesigned notifications shade. Besides getting an image preview in notifications after taking a screenshot, it also allows you to share the screenshot directly from the notification instantly. Moreover, with the Jelly Bean OS an now touch-hold a notification to identify the application that created it, turn off notifications from that application if needed, and also uninstall the application. It also allows you to automatically display rotation from the notifications shade on 7″ tablets.

Networking

The new Android now supports Wi-Fi protected setup with WPS push button and PIN support; while a new setting allows you to stay on mobile data and avoid nearby Wi-Fi networks with poor connections.

News and Weather

The News and Weather feather in Jelly Bean is updated to improve freshness and power consumption.

System

Jelly Bean offers a more reliable device encryption that reminds you to decrypt your device; and also decline calls and SMS messages when you are waiting for decryption. In case you want to boot your device to safe mode, you just require to long press the ‘Power Off’ option in the power menu. While a redesigned dialog with larger icons allows you to spontaneously choose your preferred application for specific activities; a new ‘Reset app preferences’ button lets you quickly reset default applications for specific activities, background data restrictions, notifications suppressions, beside many others. Moreover, Google Apps Device Policy on your device may now override the ‘keep screen awake’ option from developer settings.

Text-to-speech

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

Voice Typing

Jelly Bean introduces a new embedded speech recognizer that allows you to use Voice Typing even without an Internet connection.

In short, Jelly Bean not only serves to improve on the simplicity and beauty of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich; in fact, it introduces a new Google search experience on Android.