| Android 4.2.2 | Jelly Bean |
- Allow toggling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth state in Quick Settings
using long-press
- Shows the percentage and estimated time remaining in the active
download notifications
- Wireless charging and low battery sounds changed
- Gallery app updated for faster loading with new image
transition
- Performance enhancements and bug fixes (Bluetooth A2DP audio
streaming fix...)
|
- Secure USB debugging (allow debugging to authenticated
computers only)
| Feb. 11th 2013 | 17 | 1.5 % (4.2 - 4.2.2) | - Unofficial Support: 3rd Party Browser (AOSP Browser, Dolphin Browser, Mozilla Firefox) + Manual Flash Installation: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html |
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| Android 4.2.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Fix missing december bug in the People app
- Add support for Bluetooth gamepads and joysticks HID
devices
| | Nov. 27th 2012 | 17 | 1.5 % (4.2 - 4.2.2) | No Adobe no longer support Flash beyond 4.0.x |
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| Android 4.2 | Jelly Bean |
- Lockscreen widgets
- 360 degree images with Photo Sphere
- Gesture Typing, for faster typing
- Wireless display with Miracast
- Daydream to display information when idle or docked
- Multi-user for tablets
|
- vsync timing
- Triple buffering
- reduced touch latency
- CPU input boost
- Native RTL support - mirrors the display from manifest
prop
- External display support - Display Manager
- Nested fragments
- Renderscript Compute - run tasks on the GPU (supported
devices)
- Renderscript ScriptGroups, built-in intrinsics like blur,
- FilterScript is a subset of Renderscript made for high
performance image processing
| Nov. 13th 2012 | 17 | 1.5 % (4.2 - 4.2.2) | Yes 3rd Party Browser (AOSP Browser, Dolphin Browser, Mozilla Firefox) + Manual Flash Installation: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html |
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| Android 4.1.2 | Jelly Bean |
- Enable Home screen rotation
- Fix bugs and enhance performances
| | Oct. 9th 2012 | 16 | 1.2 % (4.1 - 4.1.2) | No |
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| Android 4.1.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Fix a bug on screen orientation
| | Jul. 23rd 2012 | 16 | 1.2 % (4.1 - 4.1.2) | No |
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| Android 4.1 | Jelly Bean |
- Google Now ( youtu.be/... )
- Voice Search
- Speed enhancements
- Camera app improvements
- Accessibility: gesture mode, enable braille external
keyboards...
|
- app stack navigation to define a parent activity in manifest
for deep navigation
- MediaActionSound class to make sounds like when a camera takes
a photo
- NFC supports large payloads over bluetooth
- WIFI/WIFI-Direct service discovery
- Large, detailed, multi-action notifications
- Input manager allows you to query input devices
| Jul. 9th 2012 | 16 | 1.2 % (4.1 - 4.1.2) | No Adobe no longer support Flash beyond 4.0.x |
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| Android 4.0.4 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- stability improvements
- better camera performance
- smoother screen rotation
| | Mar. 28th 2012 | 15 | 0.3 % (4.0.3 - 4.0.4) | No ICS does not support flash in browser or chrome. Tested in Galaxy S |
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| Android 4.0.3 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- Social stream API in Contacts provider to show updates
associated to your contacts
- Video stabilization and QVGA video resolution API access
- Accessibility API refinements for screen readers
- Calendar provider updates
| | Dec. 16th 2011 | 15 | 0.3 % (4.0.3 - 4.0.4) | |
|---|
| Android 4.0.2 | Ice Cream Sandwich | Minor fixes | | Nov. 28th 2011 | 14 | 0 % | Yes |
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| Android 4.0.1 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- Facial recognition (Face Unlock)
- UI use Hardware acceleration
- Better voice recognition (dictating/Voice typing)
- Web browser, allows up to 16 tabs
- Updated launcher (customizable)
- Android Beam app to exchange data through NFC
| | Oct. 19th 2011 | 14 | 0 % | Yes gajendra |
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| Android 4.0 | Ice Cream Sandwich |
- New lock screen actions
- Improved text input and spell-checking
- Control over network data
- Email app supports EAS v14
- WI-FI direct
- BlueTooth Health Device Profile
- ADB Backups
|
- Low-level streaming multimedia (Khronos OpenMAX AL
- Grid Layout
- Spell checking service
- Address Space Layout Randomization
- VPN client API
- Remote Device camera enable/disable
- ZSL exposure, continuous focus, and image zoom
- Flags to help control system ui elements like system bar from
apps
| Oct. 18th 2011 | 14 | 0 % | Yes |
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