What is already known about Android 5 - Personal Computer Magazine

yesterday claimed the site VR-Zone as they had received about the future great new Android version. important information from an insider The insider would have indicated that Google with the next major version of Android will come, namely Android 5.0.

end of October

There is only one detail about the insider Android 5.0 released: Android 5.0 would be extremely optimized and should run fine on Android devices with just 512 MB of RAM.

What we know about the next Android Version?

that the next version of Android will include optimizations is not so strange. Indeed, if it were not so, we would find that much more special. The claim that the next version of Android could run on devices with just 512 MB of RAM is fine quickly made: there are various Android devices that, despite having 512 MB or less of RAM, with Android 4.1 can easily handle.

We also know a number of optimizations that the next version of Android will contain. During one of the sessions for developers at Google I / O last month, told two of the Android Developers at Google that there have been significant improvements made to the way the interface is displayed. Apparently is a graphic chip easier appear as grouped elements: first all buttons, then all the images and then all text. This ensures that the interface is displayed.

significantly faster

Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) were already made great leaps forward in the flexibility with which the interface of Android Applications shown. The improvements made in Android 4.1 fell under Project Butter, to run the interface. “As smooth as butter ‘ In addition to this improvement in graphics processing where the Android Developers talked about, they talked about that going to be in the graphics processing. Multi-core processors to better use

Or is Android 4.3?

We expected that Google would announce. a new version of Android during Google I / O No major release, but a relatively small release, just like Android 4.1 and 4.2 under the name Jelly Bean. This new version, Android 4.3 has even been confirmed by one of the official websites for Android developers. Eventually it was very quiet around this new version. According to Google, because the event had to be back at developers and not to new software versions. More focused According to Android Developer Dan Morill Android is “a topic for another day.”

It seems likely that Google will still bring an intermediate version, in case the rumors are true that Android 5.0 will be announced in October. Because we have already several indications coming along relating to Android 4.3, including a number of aircraft certification received. These include the Nexus 7 which received new bluetooth certification late May, running on a new software. Suspect was all that Android 4.3 would include Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy, a Bluetooth standard that very little power. In addition, there was a fair in Asia during a Nexus 4 to see on Android 4.3 revolved with new camera interface.

Android 4.3 will, if this version still to come out, probably mostly minor improvements bring and possibly solve problems that already plague Android times. Two weeks ago changed Android developer Jean-Baptiste Queru still the status of many existing Android Problems, which could be an indication that these problems can be solved in the near future.

New release strategy

We often hear complaints about Android and especially the lack of software updates for devices. Often it is not even so much about the new features or fixes for bugs in the system, but is about the fact that there is an update to the system. In the past, the lack of updates a much bigger problem. At the very beginning of Android this example was so in Android 1.5 and 1.6, most applications created for Android 1.6 could not run on Android 1.5

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same problem might just be in the transition from Android 2.3 to Android 4.0, since the underlying differences certainly as large versions are great. The fact that there are many applications developed for Android 4.0 and higher, but after all work and available for lower Android Versions is a change on the part of Google: the company puts a piece of software developers available with which it functions in Android Versions are still able to use devices with older Android versions. This is an update to a completely new Android version not as necessary as before.

same strategy applied in more areas to Google: Google Play services as the company brought out. With this package, developers can use a variety of new Google services into their applications, without the devices of users should be a new Android version. Provide Think new Maps integration, log in via Google+ and making multiplayer games and share scores via Google Play game services.

addition to making available the best possible new features for older Android devices Google came with another improvement: the Google applications that come with the vast majority of Android devices are more or less disconnected from the system. All Google applications now get updates from the Google Play Store, giving an update of the underlying platform is less badly needed here.

At Google I / O we have heard news about Google TV and that in that platform, which is based on Android, including major underlying changes made. This would allow hardware manufacturers their products instead of within a few months of updates can provide. Within a few weeks For years there are people who say that Android would have to disconnect from the system, making the underlying system could be an update and this change easier for Google TV features the GUI seems to be in that direction. Maybe that’s something that we can expect from Android 5.0.

But faster updates

course, it is still important that manufacturers release updates, especially specific problems with hardware, but also security problems. Incidentally, Google also put great strides in terms of security issues with a built-malware scanner and mainly the added security scans that run the company on applications from the Google Play Store.

Many new features are now being made available outside the underlying platform, which is a significant advancement for the consumer. Well, so Google is trying to make consumers less dependent on updates but also working on the other side: the company also manufacturers try to bring faster updates.

Last year at Google I / O, the company announced the so-called platform development toolkit. This package for Google partners such as Samsung, HTC, ASUS, LG and Sony, includes information about the next version of Android. The package is two months before the announcement of a new Android version released, making them partners new devices can already prepare for this upcoming Android Version. It is possible that Android 4.3 is already decreasing, but that Google partners are likely to give at this time to process an update, even before the official launch.’s New Android Version That was already an official developer website Google to find a reference to Android 4.3, suggests to me that Android 4.3 (almost) the last moment is delayed or perhaps canceled. May have to do with the changing of the guard that has occurred in the top of the Android division at Google this: Android founder Andy Rubin retired and was succeeded by Sundar Pichai, which include the boss of the department where Google Chrome under falls. It may be that Pichai has taken to make Android 4.3 or cancel the decision.

Future

Very much so we do not know the next Android version. We do not know whether there is a point release (Android 4.3) is coming, or that a relatively large update (4.5 or 5.0) will directly come in the fall. A point release without big announcement, but with a new version of the Nexus 7 is definitely still a possibility.

One thing is certain: in the next version of Android we will see

“optimizations”.