Showing posts with label Android 4.4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android 4.4. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2013

What's New in Android 4.4

DevBytes: What's New in Android 4.4

KitKat has been optimized to run on a much broader range of devices, with special focus on the millions of entry-level devices that have as little as 512MB RAM. To help, new APIs have been created, better tools, and better documentation to let you create apps that perform well on all devices.

Check out this video summary of some of the most significant developer features in the latest Android release, including new ways to make your apps beautiful, NFC Host Card Emulation, a printing framework, the storage access framework, low-power step detector and step counter sensors, and more!

Be sure to get the full Android 4.4 API Overview
http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.4.html

And take a look at related DevBytes videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWz5rJ2EKKc-2quE-o0enpILZF3nBZg_K

Android 4.4 (KitKat) includes a new WebView component based on the Chromium

Android 4.4 (KitKat) includes a new WebView component based on the Chromium open source project. The new WebView includes an updated version of the V8 JavaScript engine and support for modern web standards that were missing in the old WebView. It also shares the same rendering engine as Chrome for Android, so rendering should be much more consistent between the WebView and Chrome.

If you're a web developer looking to start developing a WebView-based Android application, see Getting Started: WebView-based Applications for Web Developers.

Source: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/overview

The new Nexus 5, Now available in two memory versions and two colors

The new Nexus 5, now available in two memory versions and two colors, 16GB for $349 and 32GB for $399.



Visit: http://www.google.com/nexus/5/

Google Nexus 5: I Do