There are plenty of features announce for the new +Android Jelly Bean 4.3 but there were only several key features worth noting.
Great new features
One of the new features is called quick response that allows you to reject
calls easier but I am not exactly sure how it works and how well it works in
the practical world. You certainly do not want to reject the wrong calls by
some very important people especially your bosses.
Basically, it works when a call comes in and you're too occupied to take
the calls, you can reject the call and send a message to the caller by using third party apps. However, currently, none of
the third party apps supports that function that well. It really depends on the
apps developers to embed that function inside their apps.
There are also rumors by some Android fan sites that +Google Voice may be updated to work with the service, but one could never be too sure
of this unconfirmed report.
The
second new addition uncovered by the site is called notification listener.
According to the specs, it's right in the code of the update and it is a
feature developers can embed in their apps which are currently using the
accessibility service to access system notifications. Most important, it allows the apps
to be updated easily without accessing
accessibility settings which in fact can increase the performance of your
gadgets. Before this, if an app were to discover a new notification in +Google Play , it would need to communicate with the accessibility settings in your
device via +Google Play Store before displaying the notification. So now, your apps can read notifications when there any any updates by
the system, read them and update the apps to the latest versions , saving one
step of the process the update hasn't hit their devices yet.
TRIM is supposed to get rid of the sluggish performance and
possibly enhance the Project Butter that comes with the earlier versions of
Jelly Bean. Google’s Android works by instructing the flash storage that are
built in your gadgets ( I am not too sure about memory storage) when to collect
and recycle and recycles unused data pages and blocks The hopeful net
results is that devices that runs on the
Android 4.3 will perform better and no longer become laggy and non responsive. Nexus
tablets and smartphones will certainly see the performance improvements after
the new update kicks in. From the source, it seems that the newly updated Jelly
Bean invokes TRIM maintaince once every da ( 24 hours) with conditions that
there is one hour on inactivity and for the battery power, it should be 80%
full or 30% when charging
New updates to old features
Android 4.3 was announced by Google earlier today with
disappointment due to the lack of new features. From the snapshot above, we can
see that there was only minor changes to the android system with additions of
several main features namely Bluetooth support ( increased to more advance type of
Bluetooth) , More language support ( do we even care and need to wait several
donkey months for this? ) , improvement in the text input ( still haven't get this right even with
4.3? and most of the manufacturers will just apply their own predictive
keyboard anyway ). There were literally no new innovations except for the ones
above. This updates just some minor improvements and building some senseless
hype across the net which can be easily done in a simply patch.
What the new android still lacking?
One of the biggest problems with the new android Jelly Bean 4.3 is
the unproven suceess rate of the TRIM enhancements to the performance of the
gadgets. Android is too fragmeneted , too many manufacturers lay their own
customizations , until the suppsoed enhancements does not work well , like in
the earlier versions of Jell bean.
Besides that, we still face the problems of the support of new
android to older devices, this update was supposed to enable lower end phones
to enjoy the new smooth Android too.
Probably done this way to build the "credibility" of the new Google android
chief. Well, we will see about that.
Video of android 4.3. Bleh~
