For managing collections, a redesigned album layout shows many more albums and offers larger thumbnails. There are many ways to sort albums, including by time, location, people, and tags.
To help pictures look their best, the Gallery now includes a powerful photo editor. Users can crop and rotate pictures, set levels, remove red eyes, add effects, and much more. After retouching, users can select one or multiple pictures or videos to share instantly over email, text messaging, bluetooth, social networks, or other apps. An improved Picture Gallery widget lets users look at pictures directly on their home screen.
The widget can display pictures from a selected album, shuffle pictures from all albums, or show a single image. After adding the widget to the home screen, users can flick through the photo stacks to locate the image they want, then tap to load it in Gallery.
Live Effects is a collection of graphical transformations that add interest and fun to videos captured in the Camera app. For example, users can change the background behind them to any stock or custom image, for just the right setting when shooting video. Also available for video is Silly Faces, a set of morphing effects that use state-of-the-art face recognition and GPU filters to transform facial features. For example, you can use effects such as small eyes, big mouth, big nose, face squeeze, and more.
Users can now share what's on their screens more easily by taking screenshots. Hardware buttons let them snap a screenshot and store it locally. Afterward, they can view, edit, and share the screen shot in Gallery or a similar app. Android has always been cloud-connected, letting users browse the web and sync photos, apps, games, email, and contacts — wherever they are and across all of their devices.
It lets users instantly sync and manage Google Chrome bookmarks from all of their accounts, jump to their favorite content faster, and even save it for reading later in case there's no network available. To get the most out of web content, users can now request full desktop versions of web sites, rather than their mobile versions. Users can set their preference for web sites separately for each browser tab.
For longer content, users can save a copy for offline reading. Across all types of content, the Android Browser offers dramatically improved page rendering performance through updated versions of the WebKit core and the V8 Crankshaft compilation engine for JavaScript.
In benchmarks run on a Nexus S device, the Android 4. When run on a Galaxy Nexus device, the Android 4. In Android 4. For composing email, improved auto-completion of recipients helps with finding and adding frequent contacts more quickly. For easier input of frequent text, users can now create quick responses and store them in the app, then enter them from a convenient menu when composing.
When replying to a message, users can now toggle the message to Reply All and Forward without changing screens. For easier browsing across accounts and labels, the app adds an integrated menu of accounts and recent labels. To help users locate and organize IMAP and Exchange email, the Email app now supports nested mail subfolders , each with synchronization rules. Users can also search across folders on the server, for faster results. For enterprises , the Email app supports EAS v It supports EAS certificate authentication, provides ABQ strings for device type and mode, and allows automatic sync to be disabled while roaming.
Administrators can also limit attachment size or disable attachments. For keeping track of incoming email more easily, a resizable Email widget lets users flick through recent email right from the home screen, then jump into the Email app to compose or reply.
Android is continously driving innovation forward, pushing the boundaries of communication and sharing with new capabilities and interactions.
Android Beam is an innovative, convenient feature for sharing across two NFC-enabled devices, It lets people instantly exchange favorite apps, contacts, music, videos — almost anything. Just touch one Android-powered phone to another, then tap to send. For sharing apps, Android Beam pushes a link to the app's details page in Google Play.
On the other device, the Google Play client app launches and loads the details page, for easy downloading of the app. Individual apps can build on Android Beam to add other types of interactions, such as passing game scores, initiating a multiplayer game or chat, and more. It takes advantage of the device front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then to recognize it again when unlocking the device.
Users just hold their devices in front of their faces to unlock, or use a backup PIN or pattern. No internet connection or tethering is needed. Through third-party apps, users can connect to compatible devices to take advantage of new features such as instant sharing of files, photos, or other media; streaming video or audio from another device; or connecting to compatible printers or other devices.
With support from third-party apps, users can connect to wireless medical devices and sensors in hospitals, fitness centers, homes, and elsewhere. It includes all of the familiar Android 3.
For developers, the unified UI framework in Android 4. A shared social provider and API provide a new unified store for contacts, profile data, stream items, and photos. Any app or social network with user permission can contribute raw contacts and make them accessible to other apps and networks. Applications with user permission can also read profile data from the provider and display it in their applications.
The social API lets applications store standard contact data as well as new types of content for any given contact, including large profile photos, stream items, and recent activity feedback.
The social provider uses the recent activity feedback as a new signal in ranking, such as for name auto-complete, to keep the most relevant contacts ranked closest to the top. Applications can also let users set up a social connection to a contact from the People app. When the user touches Add Connection in a contact, the app sends a public intent that other apps can handle, displaying any UI needed to create the social connection. Building on the social API, developers can add powerful new interactions that span multiple social networks and contacts sources.
A shared calendar content provider and framework API make it easier for developers to add calendar services to their apps. With user permission, any application can add events to the shared database and manage dates, attendees, alerts, and reminders.
Applications can also read entries from the database, including events contributed by other applications, and handle the display of event alerts and reminders. Apps can also use calendar data to improve the relevance of their other content.
For lighter-weight access to calendar services, the Calendar app defines a set of public Intents for creating, viewing, and editing events. Rather than needing to implement a calendar UI and integrate directly with the calendar provider, applications can simply broadcast calendar Intents.
When the Calendar app receives the Intents, it launches the appropriate UI and stores any event data entered. Using calendar Intents, for example, apps can let users add events directly from lists, dialogs, or home screen widgets, such as for making restaurant reservations or booking time with friends. A shared Voicemail provider and API allow developers to build applications that contribute to a unified voicemail store.
Android Beam is an NFC-based feature that lets users instantly share information about the apps they are using, just by touching two NFC-enabled phones together. When the devices are in range — within a few centimeters — the system sets up an NFC connection and displays a sharing UI.
To share whatever they are viewing with the other device, users just touch the screen. For developers, Android Beam is a new way of triggering almost any type of proximity-based interaction. For example, it can let users instantly exchange contacts, set up multiplayer gaming, join a chat or video call, share a photo or video, and more. The system provides the low-level NFC support and the sharing UI, while the foreground app provides lightweight data to transfer to the other device.
Developers have complete control over the data that is shared and how it is handled, so almost any interaction is possible. For larger payloads, developers can even use Android Beam to initiate a connection and transfer the data over Bluetooth, without the need for user-visible pairing. Even if developers do not add custom interactions based on Android Beam they can still benefit from it being deeply integrated into Android.
The UI framework includes a new widget, ShareActionProvider, that lets developers quickly embed standard share functionality and UI in the Action Bar of their applications. Developers simply add ShareActionProvider to the menu and set an intent that describes the desired sharing action. The system handles the rest, building up the list of applications that can handle the share intent and dispatching the intent when the user chooses from the menu. The new path is ideal for applications that need to maintain complete control over media data before passing it to the platform for presentation.
The platform de-muxes, decodes, and renders the content. The audio track is rendered to the active audio device, while the video track is rendered to either a Surface or a SurfaceTexture.
This is the smart, safe way to go. Now, let's look at some of the other options for upgrading your tablet. The downside to manufacturer-approved OS updates is that they're often more conservative than some advanced users would prefer. The manufacturer will not release a new version until it has been thoroughly tested and approved. And sometimes they won't advance to a newer version like going from Ice Cream Sandwich to Jelly Bean if the tablet's hardware isn't up to the task.
That's when many users start to take matters into their own hands. You may have heard of 'jailbreaking' for iPhones and iPads. The same thing is called 'rooting' by the Android crowd. This is where users unlock the manufacturer-supplied firmware to install their own updates, customized OSes and apps that factory-supplied operating systems won't accept.
There are plenty of tutorials online to walk users through this process. Before rooting, do some homework to make sure that the tablet and the intended version of Android will play nicely.
Processing power and available memory are important issues here. Google provides the minimum requirements for each release, and hopefully so will any modified version of Android.
Also, ask around the user forums to see if anyone has already successfully attempted a similar installation with the same type of tablet. Of course, the downside to rooting is the inherent risk.
If done improperly, a tablet can be rendered inoperable, the warranty can voided and the machine can develop security weaknesses [source: TechAdvisory]. And again, before installing a new OS, make sure that your tablet's technical specs are up to par for the new Android platform; having a deficient tablet trying to run a pumped-up operating system could leave the computer running worse than it did before. In short, rooting should be left up to advanced users, and even that's no guarantee that everything will go smoothly.
As a regular user of Mac products, working on this piece got me very interested in the Android operating system. Sure, the iPad's strength lies in its uniformity, but there's something to be said for Android, the chameleon of OSes. Or perhaps 'sherbet swirl' is a better description in keeping with their naming conventions.
Android 4. Advertisement Advertisement That speed causes a common problem for tablet users who are prone to comments like this: 'My hardware is running on Honeycomb version 3. Tap Volume Up to enter recovery mode. At the green Android logo, press Power and Volume Up. Scroll down to the. Your XOOM will now update. However for some models the original stock ROM version is obsolete, as that is the case we have provided the next supported versions available, so don't panic if the original stock rom download link is not available in the table below.
But before proceeding please have an idea about the stock rom or stock firmware this is only for those who are not aware about this term first. For example if your phone is installed with Oreo 8. Once you click the download link you will be redirected to a 3rd party website were you will be able to see the firmware file listing.
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