Android - 4.4 KitKat
It's official, so we should expect to see KitKat for the Nexus 7 in the next couple weeks or so. Woohoo!
It's official, so we should expect to see KitKat for the Nexus 7 in the next couple weeks or so. Woohoo!
I don't like the word 'weeks' in this context. :-(
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It's not like the update is going to be noticeable. it's more geared toward stuff for the nexus 5 that you won't get or notice in the nexus 7.
We can remove the nav bar and the status bar when doing something which means more screen estate. The bars and the app drawer are also transparent. They lowered the amount of RAM the OS takes so there might be some difference in the amount of apps you can run.
stuff you can generally do already. I don't think RAM is much of an issue for the nexus 7, I doubt anyone even fills the RAM near capacity. Main reason they added extra RAM was gaming, since it's shared system memory, a game taking up 500mb+ of video memory space, really eats into available RAM if you only have 1GB. A game will use both memory for videocard, and memory for the game executable. so gaming memory usage is not just limited to video memory. you're going to run into cpu/gpu bottlenecks before you run into a memory bottleneck.
most apps are just a couple MB's, you could have hundreds of these running at once and have plenty of memory left over. these improvements are largely going to be unnoticeable. I wouldn't consider a transparent app drawer a significant improvement, since it still takes up space. apps like video players and browsers can be fullscreened to hide the navigation and notification bars.
There are a host of new APIs that will let us developers make better use of memory and monitor and tune applications. These are a big deal, especially for me since I develop in the augmented reality space where we are constrained in all sort of resources including CPU, GPU, and memory.
In terms of screen real estate the new immersive mode provides developer access to areas that are currently designated for OS use. So apps using immersive can place control in areas such as the screen bottom that currently is reserved for the back and home buttons.
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Can someone translate all that into layman's terms, please? Also will I be able to hide apps, move pictures around? It's the little things I'm mad I can't do. Haha.
I'm running Eclair on my Nexus 7 and love it!