Benefits of Android Jelly Bean Operating System
Android Jelly Bean is the latest, fastest and smoothest version of Android. Everything in Jelly Bean feels fast, fluid, and smooth. Moving between home screens and switching between Apps is effortless, like turning pages in a book. With Jelly Bean, the browsing activity gets enhanced. Jelly Bean features improved performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, faster responses and smoother and more consistent performance across the system.
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1) Smoother, faster and More Responsive:
Jelly Bean is optimized to deliver Android’s best performance and lowest touch latency. Android Jelly Bean allows triple buffering for graphics, so that you can easily scroll through pages and animations on your device. It helps in reducing the touch latency by synchronizing touch to vsync timing, and also helps in anticipating where your finger will be at the time of the screen refresh. This helps in a more uniform and reactive touch response. Android Jelly Bean is designed to work with a new tool called systrace, which helps in collecting data directly from the Linux kernel to develop an overall picture of system activities.
2) Improved and Enhanced Accessibility:
Android Jelly Bean has API’s (Application Programming Interface) that allows you to manage accessibility and handle gestures. Using accessibility gestures, the users can move smoothly through the on-screen elements and navigation buttons. There are many accessibility services that link their own tutorials in to the Accessibility settings, which in turn help users to configure and use their services. Apps that use Standard View components inherit support for the new accessibility features automatically, without any changes in their code. Apps that use Custom Views can use new accessibility node APIs to indicate the parts of the View that are of interest to accessibility services.
3) Resizable Widgets and Apps:
Jelly Bean features improved Apps and Widgets that can resize automatically depending on the home screen location that is at what place the user have placed them on the screen. It even depends on the size to which the user expands them, and the amount of space available on the home screen. New App Widget APIs (Application Programming Interface) helps you to optimize your app and widget content as the size of widgets changes. You can also apply separate landscape and portrait layouts for your widgets, depending upon the screen orientation.
3) Expandable Notifications:
Notifications have been a popular feature on Android devices. This feature allows you to drag and drop important or time- based information on the home screen. The framework of Android Notifications is advanced in Android Jelly Bean. Apps can now display larger and enhanced notifications which can be expanded and contracted with a pinch or swipe. Notifications support new types of content, including photos, have configurable priority, and can even include multiple actions. With expandable notifications, apps can give more information to the user, effortlessly and on demand. It even allows users to long-press any notification to get information about the sender and optionally disable further notifications from the app.
4) Transitions to Lights Out and Full Screen Modes:
New User Interface lets you to cleanly transition from a normal application UI (with action bar, navigation bar, and system bar visible), to “lights out mode” (with status bar and action bar hidden and navigation bar dimmed) or “full screen mode” (with status bar, action bar, and navigation bar all hidden).
5) Smooth and Easy Animations:
There is an option available known as Activity Option that helps you to create, control and manage the animations displayed when you launch your activities. You can specify custom animation resources to be used when the activity is launched, or you can even request new zoom animations.
6) Grid Layout and View Stub-New Remote Views:
Developers can now use Grid Layout and View Stub Views in Home screen widgets and notifications. Grid Layout lets you structure the content of your remote views with a shallower User Interface hierarchy. View Stub is an invisible, zero-sized view that can be used to lazily inflate layout resources at runtime.
7) Android Beam:
Android Beam is a popular NFC-based technology (Near Field Communication) that lets users instantly share, just by touching two NFC-enabled phones together. Android Beam makes it easier to share images, videos, or other payloads by leveraging Bluetooth for the data transfer. When the user triggers a transfer, Android Beam hands over from NFC to Bluetooth, making it really easy to manage the transfer of a file from one device to another.
8) Network Bandwidth Management:
Jelly Bean helps apps manage data usage appropriately when the device is connected to a metered network, including tethering to a mobile hotspot. Apps can look for whether the current network is metered before beginning a large download that might otherwise be relatively expensive to the user. Through the API, you can now get a clear picture of which networks are sensitive to data usage and manage your network activity accordingly.
9) Media codec Access:
Android Jelly Bean provides low-level access to platform hardware and software codec’s. Apps can query the system to discover what low-level media codec’s are available on the device and then use them in the ways they need. For example, you can now create multiple instances of a media codec; queue input buffers, and receive output buffers in return. In addition, the media codec framework supports protected content. Apps can query for an available codec that is able to play protected content with a DRM solution available on the device.
10) Multi-channel Audio:
Jelly Bean supports multichannel audio on devices that support hardware multichannel audio out through the HDMI port. Multichannel audio lets you deliver rich media experiences to users for applications such as games, music apps, and video players. For devices that do not have the supported hardware, Android automatically mixes the audio to the number of channels that are supported by the device (usually stereo).
11) Android Browser and WebView:
In Android Jelly Bean, the Android Browser and WebView provides better HTML 5 video user experience, including touch-to-play/pause and smooth transition from inline to full screen mode. They provide Improved rendering speed and reduced memory usage for better scrolling and zooming performance. They give improved rendering speed and reduced memory usage for better scrolling and zooming performance. It supports updated JavaScript Engine (V8) for better JavaScript performance.
12) Google Cloud Messaging for Android:
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is a service that lets developers send short message data to their users on Android devices, without needing a proprietary sync solution. GCM handles all the details of lining the messages and delivering them efficiently to the targeted Android devices. It supports message multitasking and can reach up to 1000 connected devices simultaneously with a single request. It also supports message payloads, which means that in addition to sending tickle messages to an app on the device, developers can send up to 4K of data. Google Cloud Messaging is completely free for all developers and sign-up is easy.