Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Features

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean finally officially announced along with the latest tablet device the Google Nexus 7. As an advanced version of the operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, of course, there will be many new features added to it.

Well, what are the new features brought by this new Android operating system, consider the following presentation is summarized from various sources.

New features of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean:

• Butter Project

The presence of Jelly Bean’s focus on performance. More specifically, the increase in the responsiveness of the user interface. That’s why Google finally dedicated it through a project called Butter to improve the performance of the Android operating system.

Butter Project the android 4.1 Jelly Bean is actually not only change the look of Android become more attractive, but also claimed to be designed to optimize the ability of System on Chip (SoC) on each device.

There are three things that make look stunning Butter Project, including for anti flickr Vsync, Triple Buffering to optimize OpenGL, as well as optimization of the processor to increase the responsiveness of the phone.

To prove it, Google has shown two smartphones Galaxy Nexus, which runs an Ice Cream Sandwich, while others run the Jelly Bean Project proves a big difference thanks to Butter. The result, according to sources at GSMArena is really quite impressive.

• Keyboard and Voice Input

For text input device, the keyboard on the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean also claimed to have improved, with better predictions of rich and more accurate as well as the dictionary has been expanded.

In the android 4.1 jelly bean, Voice Typing feature is now also available in offline mode. This means that users no longer require a data connection to do it, but it also features performance was not affected by the slow pace.

• Photo Gallery

On  Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, take pictures/photos are claimed to be more intuitive. By bringing the motion of the user interface and new functionality, users simply move to the side to access the gallery. Users also can rapidly remove the picture by sliding it off the screen.

• Notifications

With the changes also include notification bar, which is now made more intelligent. For example, when a user gets a missed call, then to call back just over the bar notification.

In addition it now also includes notifications for various applications such as Music, Pulse, and Gmail are extended to give more details without having to open the application.

• Google Search

Most older applications on Android devices, Google Search, has also significantly changed. Where, Google Search has been supported by natural language commands. That way, Google seems to have been ready for a serious challenger to present candidates for Siri.

When a user performs a search, the user will get a card with minimalist design. Interestingly, when users swipe to the left, the card shows the user’s list of search results from Google Search.

Google also provides new features that are part of the Google Search so-called Google Now you can use to show a list of public transportation, flight information, and sports results.

• Widget

Widgets in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is now more intelligent. These features are now able to automatically adjust the size of the remaining space on the screen. So that the widget that has a large size even though it would be more pleasing to the eye.

That’s some new features android 4.1 jelly bean is very interesting. You’ll want to immediately enjoy these features? Wait for the latest updates from the vendor that you use the phone.