The APIs cover Daydream, the new interactive screensaver mode for Android devices, the use of secondary displays, lock screen widgets, nested fragments, support for multiple users, Renderscript, and support for languages that use right-to-left (RTL) UIs…
An interesting article is on the New York Times, in its Bits technology section. Brian Chen has interviewed John Lagerling, director of business development for Android. The talk is mainly centred on Google’s strategy with the Nexus brand and pricing – see One on One: Google Android Director on Nexus Strategy
The release of Android v4.2 was classed simply as a “new flavour” of Jelly Bean, rather than one deserving of a new moniker (Key Lime Pie was lined up).
A stick often used to beat Android is the fragmentation of the OS across various devices. And in particular, the slowness with which new platform updates emerge across the market.
Steve Jobs famously challenged Adobe to demonstrate (mobile) Flash in its glory on handheld devices, and claimed it never passed his test. Well, The Register reports that the Flash Player is to vanish from Android store today, as well.
Here’s an interesting curio. The world’s first Android phone – the HTC device known as “T-Mobile G1″ or the “HTC Dream” – has been Jelly Bean-ified…
MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor, the China-based mobile CPU developer have worked with Karbonn Mobiles of India to offer a low cost Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean’ tablet, writes Richard Wilson.
She splits down the three related functions of the new “Google Search app” and talks about how Google has redesigned its Voice Actions interface…