Android 4.4 KitKat Easter Egg and Daydream

How Chrome on KitKat support HTML5

It's the build-in Chrome browser of Nexus 7 (1st generation) running Android 4.4.2 KitKat, visit html5test.com to measure how it support HTML5, and also compare with other browsers.

Record screen action (capture video) on Android KitKat

Android KitKat provide a new feature to record screen action. The videos on last post "Share A Moment With Someone Special, Disney Blank with Google" were recorded on Nexus 7 (1st generation) running 4.4.2.

The screenrecord command is a shell utility for recording the display of devices running Android 4.4 (API level 19) and higher. The utility records screen activity to an MPEG-4 file, which you can then download and use as part of a video presentation. This utility is useful for developers who want to create promotional or training videos without using a separate recording device.

To record video on Android KitKat:

• Enable developer options on KitKat
• Connect your KitKat device to your PC.
• In your PC, run:
  $ adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/video.mp4

To stop recording:

• Press Control-C on your PC

Your recorded video will be in /sdcard/video.mp4 on your Android KitKat device.

New UI features and design guidelines for Android 4.4 KitKat

Android Design in Action: New in Android 4.4

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

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