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Today at Google IO 2012 in San Francisco, Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Hugo Barra, Director of Android Product Development, talked about momentum. "Last year we announced Android across 100M devices. Now [there are] 400M android devices.:
Barra continued, "last year 400K new Android devices were activated everyday. Now, 1M new Android devices activated every day."
With about 12 new Android devices every second, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean builds on what Google created with Ice Cream Sandwich.
Android Jelly Bean, like Butter
Boasting a new Google search experience on Android, Project butter is the marquee addition to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Sporting new and improved Vsync, offering triple buffering, and much better touch responsiveness, Project Butter aims to dramatically improve the user experience.
Barra added, "People spend a lot of time on the home screen with Android" to that end, Jelly Bean offers a much improved user experience when interracting with and customizing the home screen.
Widgets have always been a hallmark of the Android experience, and now with Jelly Bean, manipulating and customizing widgets should be a much smoother experience.
With earlier iterations of Android placing widgets and icons can be tricky, now, with Jelly Bean, icons will get out of the way and make room for widgets. In the demo we saw at Google IO 2012, Jelly Bean has the ability to resize a widget to fit in a home screen.
Boasting a new predictive keyboard Jelly Bean will now offer offline voice typing. Before users had to be online to do that. Sporting a new camera app as well as expansive notifications Jelly Bean will be released to the open source community in mid July and the SDK will be available today at developer.android.com.
Source : Wired
