| Key user features added | New emojis |
- USB Type-C support
- Fingerprint Authentication support
- Better battery life with "deep sleep"
- Permissions dashboard
- Android Pay
- MIDI support
- Google Now improvements
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- Speed improvement
- Bug fixes
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- Multiple SIM cards support
- Quick settings shortcuts to join Wi-Fi networks or control
Bluetooth devices
- Lock protection if lost or stolen
- High Definition voice call
- Stability and performance enhancements
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- Performance improvements and bug fixes
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- bug fixes, fix issues with video playback and password
failures
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- New design (Material design)
- Speed improvement
- Battery consumption improvement
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- Fix Heartbleed / OpenSSL vulnerability
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- Bug fixes
- Enable Sprint Spark band 26 and band 41
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- Bug fixes
- Security enhancements
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- Bug fixes
- Enhance the camera on the Nexus 5
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- Screen recording
- New Translucent system UI
- Enhanced notification access
- System-wide settings for closed captioning
- Performance improvements
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- Dial pad auto-complete
- Photo Sphere enhancements
- Camera app UI updated
- 4K resolution support
- Ability to create restricted profiles for tablets
- Hebrew and Arabic right-to-left (RTL) support
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support
- Bluetooth Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.3
support
- Security and performance enhancements
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- 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...)
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- Fix missing december bug in the People app
- Add support for Bluetooth gamepads and joysticks HID
devices
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- 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
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- Enable Home screen rotation
- Fix bugs and enhance performances
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- Fix a bug on screen orientation
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- Google Now ( youtu.be/... )
- Voice Search
- Speed enhancements
- Camera app improvements
- Accessibility: gesture mode, enable braille external
keyboards...
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- stability improvements
- better camera performance
- smoother screen rotation
| Minor fixes |
- 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
| Added "Pay as you go" for tablets | Minor fixes |
- 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
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- 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
| Minor fixes |
- Google Wallet support for the Nexus S 4G
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- Android Market updates including easier automatic updates
- Google Books updates
- Wi-Fi improvements
- Chinese handwriting prediction improved
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- Improved network performance for the Nexus S 4G
- Fixed Bluetooth issues on the Samsung Galaxy S
- Gmail app. improvements
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- Optimizations for a wider range of tablets
- Compatibility display mode (zoom for fixed-sized apps)
- Media sync from SD card
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- Voice or video chat using Google Talk
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- UI improvements
- Open Accessory API
- USB host API
- Mice, joysticks, gamepads... support
- Resizable Home screen widgets
- MTP
notifications
- RTP API
for audio
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- Multi core support
- Better tablet support
- Updated 3D UI
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- customizable homescreens
- recent applications viewing
- redone keyboard layout
- Media/Picture transport protocol
- Google Talk video chat
- Google eBooks
- "Private browsing"
- System-wide Clipboard
- HTTP Live streaming
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- Updated UI
- Improved keyboard ease of use
- Improved copy/paste
- Improved power management
- Social networking features
- Near Field Communication support
- Native VoIP/SIP support
- Video call support
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- Speed improvements
- JIT implementation
- USB Tethering
- Applications installation to the expandable memory
- Upload file support in the browser
- Animated GIFs
| | |
- HTML
- Digital zoom
- Microsoft Exchange support
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Live Wallpapers
- Updated UI
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- Gesture framework
- Turn-by-turn navigation
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- Bluetooth A2DP, AVRCP support
- Soft-keyboard with text-prediction
- Record/watch videos
|
- "Show" & "Hide" numeric keyboard, in caller
application
- Ability to save MMS attachments
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- Public Release of Android
- Download and updates via Android Market
- Web Browser
- Camera support
- Gmail, Contacts and Google Agenda synchronization
- Google Maps
- YouTube application
| It is the first version to use Android 1.0's UI. It also adds many
of the sounds and ringtones found in 1.0, albeit mostly in stereo
as opposed to mono. |
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| Key developer features added | |
- Custom Chrome Tabs for better in app browser support
- App Permissions management update
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- Several new API
- Tracking battery consumption app
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- Public API for SMS management.
- Improved memory usage
- Security enhancements (SELinux enforcing mode, new
cryptographic algorithms, VPN per user...)
- NFC Host Card Emulation (for wireless payment, loyalty
programs...)
- Printing Framework
- Storage Access Framework
- Hardware Sensor Batching
- Full-screen immersive mode
- GLES2.0 SurfaceFlinger
- Chromium WebView
- Audio tunneling to DSP
- Audio monitoring
- Wi-Fi certified Miracast
- New Bluetooth profile
- IR Blasters API
- Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) support
- Tools for analyzing memory use (procstats, on-device memory
status and profiling)
|
- OpenGL for Embedded Systems 3.0 graphics support
- Logging and analyzing enhancements
- Wi-Fi scanning API
- Improved DRM (digital rights management) API
- VP8 encoding
|
- Secure USB debugging (allow debugging to authenticated
computers only)
| |
- 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
| | |
- 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
| | | | | | |
- 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
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- Extended API for managing screens support
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- New resource qualifiers for screens support
- New manifest attributes for screen-size compatibility
- Screen compatibility mode which allows for phone apps to appear
as if they were still on a phone
| | |
- contextual action bar
- Fragments first introduced(support library now supports it as
well)
- Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
- Renderscript 3D graphics engine
- Pluggable DRM framework
- device administration
- High performance Animation Framework
- RTP streaming API
- Forced rendering of layers
- High performance WIFI lock
- Vew network traffic stats
- ADTS AAC and FLAC audio
- LRU cache
|
- NFC API
improvements (peer to peer communication...)
- added unsecure bluetooth sockets
|
- performance - concurrent garbage collection, faster event
distribution, updated video drivers
- NDK - Native Asset Manager, Native Activities + event handling,
khronos api
- audio effects api
- VP8, WebM, AAC, AMR wideband
- Multiple camera sensor support
- strictmode debugging
- media framework replaces OpenCore
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User reviews and comments
Je ne sais pas si c'est le cas sur tous les smartphones, mais sur le Samsung Xcover 2 ou GT-S7710, cette version est une vrai galère au niveau de la mémoire. Impossible de transférer les applications sur la micro SD. Du coup, on est vite saturé en mémoire. Inadmissible pour un smartphone comme celui-là. Il serait bien d'avoir une solution pour corriger ce problème.
Bonjour. Depuis que j'ai cette nouvelle version (4.1.2) j'ai un petit souci. Quand j’écris un sms et que j'ai un mot qui n'éxiste pas sur mon téléphone il est impossible d'ajouter ce nouveau mot dans le dictionnaire interne de mon galaxy note GT-N7000. Y'a t'il une solution car cela est très gênent. merci d'avance
Dolphin has not supported Flash since about the time of Android 4.0.1 or 4.0.2, Or have they added it back? The Android devs had pretty horrid Flash support anyway. Felt like they just decided to give up trying to get their code right (was it beyond their skill level? who knows...but it's not there far as my last look.)