Android OS- Module 7

8: Android Jelly Bean ( Android 4.3)

After many years of continuous innovations then came into market a platform,an OS which was loved by people and even now it can attract someone towards it on the very first look as its name is very cute along with its features,it was Android Jelly Bean,announced in the mid of 2012.

Android Jelly Bean was known for its Faster, Smoother and more responsive UI.Some performance upgrade including vsync timing, triple buffering,reduced touch latency, CPU input boost, and hardware-accelerated 2D making this OS one of the best and fastest OS developed.The OS boosted the gaming experience for the User, the hardware accelerated 2D now optimize the handsets for superior graphic performance , these can also use multithreading across multiple CPU cores  for the process.. The graphics UI which was used was Khronos OpenGL ES 3.0 this optimize texture management and increase in gradient rending. Jelly Bean introduced new Bluetooth Profiles called Bluetooth Smart Ready and also AVRCP 1.3 Profile with which apps can have a richer interaction with the streaming media devices.

    The OS introduced support for Restricted profiles like user can restrict a user and create a different and separate environment with the ability to finely restrict the contents. Developers Optimised the Location service and sensor  info like  lets game developers sense the device’s rotation without having to worry about magnetic interference , once again too tech worlds in short the developers don’t need to calibrate the sensors while developing . Rest all small modifications  were made which are listed below.

Jellybean had many firmware modification as from android 4.1 to android 4.3 , the developer kept on debugging the OS for this refined one .

Modification:

• Improved speed,
• Smooth interface,
• Improved camera application,
• Apps and widgets can automatically be resized on desktop,
• Ability for other launchers to add widgets from drawers without requesting root access,
• Gestures,
• Lock/unlock screen rotation,
• Lock screen improvements,
• Swipe on lock screen for camera,
• Notification drawer for quick settings
• Multiple user accounts,
• Daydream,
• New gallery and all improvement in all stock android applications.
• New animations Jelly bean still have the same effect it used to have as an infant,in my believe it is the most stable and nice android among all previous and newer versions.

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