After Android 4.3 Jelly Bean is Android 4.4 KitKat . Android 4.4 (KitKat) is in design any major renovation of the operating system, but the most important and significant changes are under the hood. Besides a number of new interface elements will Android 4.4 include more efficient working memory and battery. is fine the ‘immersive’ mode that hides distractions and the ability to quickly files, contacts, multimedia and other matters can be found thanks to the deep integration of Google services and Google Now.
New features in Android 4.4
The most important innovations in Android 4.4, we put below for an overview.
- More efficient use of the battery and the available memory
- find what you’re looking for with Google Now
- Immersive’ mode hides buttons, status bar, and other distractions
- multitasking expires faster
- Phone app renovated and equipped with more features
- Hangouts integrates SMS and MMS, contains POISON support
- Keyboard with new emoticons
- Built-in ability to print
- Deep integration with office suite Quickoffice
- Android 4.4 can
- Ability to record the screen
- Option to count steps thanks to two new sensors
- Quickly switch between a highly accurate and energy-saving location setting
- Project Svelte, Android also on devices with less powerful hardware smoothly spins
- the management of the SD card. Read all about it in our article Android 4.4 SD card: what has changed all
act as a remote control for the TV via an infrared sensor, all kinds of files
easier streaming of content over Wi-Fi
Latest news about Android 4.4 KitKat
Android 4.4 hands-on in screenshots?
the first thing to notice about Android 4.4, the larger icons the early looks a bit clumsy, but the larger icons quickly get used and provide in combination with the. new button for the app drawer a somewhat playful appearance to the phone. If you go to the app drawer, you see that there is only space for apps. there, too, the icons are larger than normal and blurred background. This again a more playful look to Android, where we actually very happy about. also, some app icons, including the phone and settings have been updated with, indeed, a more playful design.
the quick settings (see screenshot right) are still largely the same buttons available. Two changes are data display icons in the Wi-Fi or cellular network and the new button for location settings. This button leads to a new location settings (pictured below, center) where you can see which apps consume the location services and thus high energy and fast on or off Location Services.
The Settings menu is largely remained the same, in addition to an extra section for printing via cloud printers, and an entirely new location menu. In the location menu will be displayed including the location services and recent location requests. As you can see in the above screenshot for example, the camera has a high battery consumption by adding a GPS location to the photos you shoot. This includes eg Google Maps.
The location mode from the location menu, you can choose between high accuracy (using GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile networks), battery saving (using WiFi and mobile networks ) or only device (using gPS). This gives users the opportunity to choose for themselves what they consider most important:. Battery life or quick and precise location
Another important change in Android 4.4 is adjusting the homescreen. While many manufacturers have already added this to their own software layer was decorating your home screens on a Nexus device for many a little complicated. So Google gave you no indication how your apps or widgets get on your homescreen
Android 4.4 Kitkat is different:. If you press now and hold the home screen, you will see a new window where you background can change, widgets can add and Google Now and Google Search settings, both of which are integrated into the launcher, you can edit. This new screen also allows you to rank the different homescreens or to run. Apps are still being added to the home screen from the launcher (if they have not already come to be automatically on a homescreen by the system).
Two other apps that are overhauled, the phone app and Hangouts. The latter is now also the default SMS app, as you see above into the rightmost screenshot. If you send a text message, it gets labeled ‘SMS’ within the Android app. This way you keep the overview between the Hangouts conversations and text messages.
The phone app has gotten the biggest makeover. This is now formed around your contacts, three of which are highlighted with pictures and the rest of your Favorites appear below. At the top there is a large search bar you go to contacts and places nearby allows searching, including through voice recognition. At the bottom you can press any contacts to display the entire list of contacts and there is a button that brings up the number keys. The bell button that then emerges is provided with a light blue color that Android again gives a more playful look.
Finally appear at the top of the phone app, your most recent conversations and see you through using the button at the bottom left your call history.
another important change is Google Now. This is now integrated into the launcher and is accessed by swiping from left to right. Actually this is the launcher on the left side of your homescreen. The function “Ok Google” to say after Google Now opens itself, however, is not yet available in Dutch, along with a series of other new Google Now features.
In addition, apps can now make full use of the screen, such as Play Books or YouTube app. This makes the entire screen is taken away and the notification bar and bar with touch screen buttons. Also driving with Android 4.4, better external devices such as Chromecast or an external display, because the controls are displayed clearer and larger on the lock. The latter also received two new icons that make it easier to open the camera app and Google Now.
Finally, we mention a few improvements we’ve not yet ready to test, but according to Google or Android 4.4 are present. So you can multitask faster through improved memory management (yes, the Nexus 5 runs like a charm), apps which use Web content load faster now Chrome to render and use the audio playback now less energy. The latter is particularly useful for those who for example uses a lot Spotify or Play Music. Also, the reaction rate of the display would be increased. In practice feels Nexus 5 in any case faster and seems Android 4.4 to run very fast, but this may be due to the fast Snapdragon 800 chip
Android 4.4 Video:. A brief impression
Android 4.4 explains key features
1. Speed
Android 4.4 is more efficient with the memory of your smartphone or tablet and works smoothly on Android devices with at least 512MB RAM. In addition, Android 4.4 should prolong battery life by matching information retrieval different sensors. This operating system can efficiently handle data. Also consume mobile connections around 20 percent less energy: a major advance
Google wants Android 4.4 is available to everyone, but that does not mean that all older devices receive an update to this new operating system.. With ‘KitKat for all’ mean Google Android 4.4 is available for devices in all price categories. There is as yet only at the next generation of Android Devices below.
2. Interface
Android 4.4 has on the homescreen transparent buttons at the bottom of the screen, status icons in white instead of blue and a new look for many icons. Furthermore, Android 4.4 user friendly designed and added a immersive’ mode that hides distractions so that you only see what you’re doing. Renewed wallpapers contribute to a fresh look for the operating system.
3. New apps and features
In terms of apps and features has changed the laws. For example, the Phone app has been updated so that you can search directly from the app to contacts, locations near and (business) Google Apps accounts. It was previously known that integrates the new Hangouts app SMS and MMS, so that a separate messaging app is superfluous.
In addition, nFC and cloud services such as printing and storage expanded with multiple features and Android 4.4 KitKat via an infrared sensor henceforth act as a remote control for the TV. By Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) the OS may also media and other content easier streaming to devices on the same Wi-Fi networks.
It is also taken by the noise on the shovel. Audio uses less energy, which is useful for long Spotify listening sessions and watching YouTube videos. Users with Android 4.4 Kitkat also record the screen, their steps count forwarding two new sensors and quickly between a precise and energy-efficient location setting.
4. Integrating Google services
Nexus 5 launcher makes Google services are integrated deeper into your phone so you get the desired information quickly and easily find and Google Now can use immediately. This feature allows you to search faster than ever with voice commands, send messages, a route and play music
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How different Android 4.4.2 and Android 4.4 .1?
Android 4.4.1 is the speed of the camera app on the Nexus 5 tackled considerably, making it faster startup, better focusing and faster photo shoots. In addition, the 4.4.1 update fixes bugs in the operating system and adds them transparent status bars with slightly tighter icons.
Android 4.4.2 appeared a week after Android 4.4.1 (December 2013) and was a still update smaller than its predecessor. What exactly is new in 4.4.2 Opinions differ, but many sources speak of bug fixes and “improvements for security.
Why the name Kitkat?
Android 4.4 have Google and KitKat decided to join forces and help each other with their brand awareness. At this tasty deal is reportedly not involve money. The choice of KitKat as namesake for Android 4.4 comes from the fact that many people do not know how Key Lime Pie (lemon-cream cake) tastes. Initially latter chosen as the name, but KitKat is much more familiar
Google says about KitKat as follows:.
Android is the operating system on more then runs a billion smartphones and tablets. Because these devices make our lives so fine, each version of Android is named after a dessert: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair (a type of pastry), Froyo (short for frozen yogurt), Gingerbread (gingerbread), Honeycomb (honeycomb), Ice Cream sandwich (Ice Cream sandwich) and Jelly Bean. As anyone find us hard to stay away from chocolate, which is why we decided to name the next version of Android to one of our favorite chocolate treats: KitKat
Official Android 4.4 Kitkat video
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