Let's discuss, what are the new features on Jelly Bean that very wow for you.

The first one for me is the keyboard, it can predict like swiftkey and voice type is offline, no need internet line for voice recognition!

Live update now: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-...ynote-liveblog/

This one unbelievable:

Blind users will now be able to use special gestures to navigate the device in combination with audio cues. There's even integrated Braille support!

How it work? Really interesting.

The next major upgrade to Android will be version 4.1 Jelly Bean, it has been announced at Google I/O today. Project Butter is the major new innovation in Android 4.1, focused on making the entire UI "fast, fluid and smooth." That includes triple buffering in the graphics pipeline, to ensure consistent frame rates with interface animations. Google's I/O demo showed two Galaxy Nexus devices side by side, one running Ice Cream Sandwich and the other on Jelly Bean, with the latter offering a significantly higher frame rate when navigating the Android UI.

From the Verge all about Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

I think Google wants to put an end to the LAGGY ANDROID complaints already.

And, no more Apple is smoother next time(although it's not theoretically). 

At Google I/O today we announced the latest version of the Android platform, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). With Jelly Bean, we’ve made the great things about Android even better with improved system performance and enhanced user features.

Improvements include a smoother and more responsive UI across the system, a home screen that automatically adapts to fit your content, a powerful predictive keyboard, richer and more interactive notifications, larger payload sizes for Android Beam sharing and much more. For a lowdown on what’s new, head over to the Jelly Bean platform highlights.

Of course, Jelly Bean wouldn’t be complete without a healthy serving of new APIs for app developers. Here are some of the new APIs that Jelly Bean introduces:

    Expandable notifications: Android 4.1 brings a major update to the Android notifications framework. Apps can now display larger, richer notifications to users that can be expanded and collapsed with a pinch. Users can now take actions directly from the notification shade, and notifications support new types of content, including photos.

    Android Beam: In Android 4.1, Android Beam makes it easier to share images, videos, or other payloads by leveraging Bluetooth for the data transfer.

    Bi-directional text support: Android 4.1 helps you to reach more users through support for for bi-directional text in TextView and EditText elements.

    Gesture mode: New APIs for accessibility services let you handle gestures and manage accessibility focus. Now you can traverse any element on the screen using gestures, accessories, you name it.

    Media codec access: Provides low-level access to platform hardware and software codecs.

    Wi-Fi Direct service discoverability: New API provides pre-associated service discovery letting apps get more information from nearby devices about the services they support, before they attempt to connect.

    Network bandwidth management: New API provides ability to detect metered networks, including tethering to a mobile hotspot.

For a complete overview of new APIs in Jelly Bean, please read the API highlights document. Note that this is a preview of the Jelly Bean platform. While we’re still finalizing the API implementations we wanted to give developers a look at the new API to begin planning app updates. We’ll be releasing a final platform in a few weeks that you should use to build and publish applications for Android 4.1.

For Android devices with the Google Play, we launched the following at Google I/O today:

    Smart app updates: For Android 2.3, Gingerbread devices and up, when there is a new version of an app in Google Play, only the parts of the app that changed are downloaded to users’ devices. On average, a smart app update is a third the size of a full apk update. This means your users save bandwidth and battery and the best part? You don’t have to do a thing. This is automatically enabled for all apps downloaded from Google Play.

    App encryption: From Jelly Bean and forward, paid apps in Google Play are encrypted with a device-specific key before they are delivered and stored on the device. We know you work hard building your apps. We work hard to protect your investment.

    Google Cloud Messaging for Android: This is the next version of C2DM and goes back to Froyo. Getting started is easy and has a whole bunch of new APIs than C2DM has to offer. If you sign-up for GCM, you will be able to see C2DM and GCM stats in the Android developer console. Most importantly, the service is free and there are no quotas. [Learn more.]

Starting from today, over 20 Android sessions at Google I/O will deep-dive in many of these areas. Join us in-person or follow us live.

doesnt this android beam thing reminds u of android nfc?

how many phones have this nfc thingie?

doesnt this android beam thing reminds u of android nfc?

how many phones have this nfc thingie?

Just watched it. Nothing truly exciting. Just improvemts here and thr.

Yawwwn.

Just watched it. Nothing truly exciting. Just improvemts here and thr.

Yawwwn.

I wonder what else would u expect in a firmware upgrade besides improvement here and there? 

Where is the siri killer?

That fellow is a fruit user   
No point taking his opinion seriously .
See his topic and posts all bashing android device   
I wonder why he so free .

Anyway , NFC is hardware , android beam is software .
Ppl need to read before bash .

From the Verge all about Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

same goes to ios 6

i see.. if he really is a tutti frutti faboys, then i pity him...
still fighting for the late Steve Job's undying personal wish to bash Android...
simply becos he thinks Android stole his "stolen" ideas... 

already in the android OS since 2010

Yeah I heard icon shadows is supposedly a major thing *yawn*
And the interface is still the same as iPhone 3 

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Added on June 28, 2012, 10:53 am
Steve is rolling in his grave.  'Dammit I worked so hard to brainwash all those sheeps that 3.5" is the ideal screen size and they don't need bigger.  Now it's going to be 4"!'

http://phandroid.com/2012/06/27/all-the-new-features-in-android-4-1-jelly-bean/

Performance (or Project Butter)
While we thought Google’s performance gains with Ice Cream Sandwich were more than impressive, they’re claiming to be able to do even better. With new technological approaches to graphics drawing functions like v-sync, triple buffering, and touch responsiveness.

With the ability to predict where you’ll go next in an app Google can can do a bit of pre-loading to make the experience that much smoother. All of this will converge into a change that will allow the OS to maintain a smooth 60 frames per second no matter what, and that’s exactly what we’ve been asking for from the get-go.

Smarter Home Screen Management
Moving widgets and apps around on your home screens will now be even easier thanks to some changes Google have made. When moving a widget around apps will automatically wrap around it so you won’t need to go through the cumbersome process of moving individual icons around, deleting them, re-adding them, etc.

Widgets can be re-sized automatically when you’re moving it from one pane to the next. It’s a natural extension of the folder’s wrapping feature and we are glad it’s finally part of the home screen as a whole.

Input and Accessibility
Google announced that voice input would no longer require an internet connection: everything you need for voice-to-text and other voice features are embedded into the software. This is perfect for those who want to get some work done using voice but can’t seem to find an internet connection.

Google’s also made changes to the keyboard by adding a predictive text system that will predict what you want to type before you type it. While we’ve had this sort of prediction in third-party keyboards like SwiftKey for quite some time, we are always glad to see stock apps give more functionality.

And now, more users can type on the keyboard as Google have finally added native support for Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and Thai. As for that accessibility part, those who have disrupted vision will be able to use gestures to do many things in the OS. Swiping and touching are all you’ll to navigate the device.

Camera
The camera’s gotten some minor, but nice improvements. You can now view the images you’ve just snapped by swiping your finger across the viewfinder. Sliding to the left reveals the photos, and sliding to the right will bring you back to the viewfinder. And if you don’t like a certain image you’ve taken, deleting it is as simple as sliding it out of the way.

Android Beam
Android Beam was notoriously lacking when it was first announced. You could only send a very limited amount of content to people. Google have announced that you can now do so much more with it. You can share photos and video to others who have an NFC phone and Android Beam enabled.

That’s not even the best part. Google’s announced functionality that would allow you to pair your devices up with Bluetooth-equipped accessories simply by bumping the two devices. While no specific accessories have been announced yet, we look forward to seeing who’ll be adding this stuff to their accessories.

Notifications
Here’s the biggie: notifications have gotten a massive overhaul for the better. Actionable notifications allow you to do way more in the pane than you’ve ever been able to do. Google’s making it easier for you to read and react to app updates without having to go into the actual app.

For instance, a missed call notification will allow you to call that contract back straight from the notification. If you’re in a call at the time, you can hang up from the notification. This allows you to control your call from within any app.

Expandable notifications allow you to do things like read the beginning of an email. You can snooze a calendar alarm from a notification and you can email every guest with a preset or custom message from within that same notification.

A photo shared form Google+ gives you a preview of the full photo so you can decide whether or not you want to check out a bigger version. You can +1 that photo and share it from the same notification.

In Foursquare, you could like and comment on your friends’ check-ins. With TuneIn Radio, you can skip a song, play or pause a song, and even save it as a favorite. With a swipe of two fingers, Pulse will give you the latest headlines and preview images to go along with them.

Google’s giving developers complete freedom in what they can do with their actionable notifications. This should excite many people as I’m sure developers will not hold back. I could spend all day dreaming up some useful notifications for my favorite apps.

Google Now and the new searching standard
Finally, Google’s introduced Google Now, a new way to search for anything you want or need. I hate to use the “S” word, but this is pretty much Google’s Siri. We’re not sure if this is what Majel turned out to be or not, but it’s pretty much what Google said it would be (ie, something beyond the scope of Siri).

Google Now lets you search for the most general of terms or the most specific facts and it will return those results in a great way. For instance, I could ask the height of the Eiffel Tower and Google would spit back 1,063 feet. These will come in the form of Knowledge Graphs which not only give you the answer you were looking for, but more details about that item.

A Knowledge Graph can be dismissed to reveal more information about whatever it is you were searching for. Knowing the height is nice, but knowing why such a tower exists also comes in handy and you don’t have to much of anything to go deeper in your searches.

You have the option of enabling a voice that will speak the result back, and it understands plain English so you can forget about looking at a list of suggested phrases.

But the really interesting thing is in Google Now. Google Now will learn your personal life based on the things you do in Google Search and other Google sites. If you seem to search about the Packers a lot, Google Now will ping you when a game is near.

It knows where you work and where you live, and as scary as that sounds it sounds pretty cool. It’ll let you know the traffic to and from your destination once the time it thinks you usually go to work approaches.

It sees that you have meetings and will go a step beyond just alerting you. You will be given the best possible route to get to that meeting in a certain amount of time, and it even extends to public transportation by letting you know which route to take as well as what time your designated buses and trains should arrive.

If you’ve recently done a search for a certain flight it will give you flight details including which gate to board your flight. And the cool thing is that all of this happens without you needing to tell it: it just happens.

so does this mean android wil b as smooth,fluid and etc like ios??

ios6.0 is upgrading its siri. is android 4.1 upgrading its google voice?

bad move if they don't. they future is voice. don't be left out. i am a consumer, not a fanboy.

i think JB will come with Chrome browser... right? or only for the nexus 7?

anyway, i think chrome as the stock browser is good. the current browser really sucks. having tried chrome for android, i think that's already a nice change.

then again... browsers are not really part of the OS, right?

ios6.0 is upgrading its siri. is android 4.1 upgrading its google voice?

bad move if they don't. they future is voice. don't be left out. i am a consumer, not a fanboy.

Heih brother, why not you read my first post and all keynote about Jelly Bean? The first thing I told is about voice recognition which is now can use offline. It is major improvement for me. About function like Siri, yes they improve a lot. Let's read the keynote. Read from first source, don't just trust forumer post.

I as app developer still waiting Jelly Bean SDK (API 17) availability for download. Just now check the Android SDK Manager, still no Jelly Bean yet.

u sure no android sdk yet? the picture are floating all over the internet.

ios6.0 is upgrading its siri. is android 4.1 upgrading its google voice?

bad move if they don't. they future is voice. don't be left out. i am a consumer, not a fanboy.

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Added on June 28, 2012, 11:15 am
after detailed R&D apple is convinced that 3.5" is the best size for one handed users. but just last week they noticed human hands just got bigger overnight. So that spark another R&D and concluded the size of screen have to change because of this strange phenomena happening around the world.

History shows that Android updates are slow to make their mark on the ecosystem. Data collected by Google based on devices that have accessed Google Play shows that only 7.1 percent on devices are running the latest Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” update, despite the update appearing more than eight months ago.

So what?  How does it affect me, as a user, if the majority is using GB?

It means that android apps ecosystem is not sustainable and will crash very soon.

already in the android OS since 2010

you not a fanboy but did you tried s voice or siri b4? it jz a factor of "wow" practically IT'S USELESS... what so called they future is voice?!  the moment the so called S voice or Siri understand your speech... I ad finish the task...
why? it only can be used when the surrounding is quiet... you must speak in proper way... you must speak in their order... u mz speak within the time range...
you not a fanboy... but u r naive... 

back to topic... did JB required specific hardware... seems like ICS ad a burden for Nexus S...

It's useless coz its not working Bro. So we hoping for improvements so it will work. If a human can understand me even if the surrounding is noisy why can't android? if i can understand a human even if he doesn't speak in a proper way, why can't android?  I say voice is the future coz it's not working yet to a point where it's practical. But when it does, phones that doesn't have voice will die just like blackberry

don't underestimate voice technology. blackberry underestimated multitouch technology and see where they are now.

I think Google wants to put an end to the LAGGY ANDROID complaints already.

And, no more Apple is smoother next time(although it's not theoretically). 

iOS is compiled in C whereas Android is compiled in Java. It's a fact that C-based programs run smoother than Java-based ones. Please don't confuse the masses.

LOL. What a load of crap.
The reason why iOS is silky smooth is optimization. Even windows phone is smooth.
Apple has many years experience in graphics technology since their Macintosh days.
Their technology is the best in the world. And they control both software and hardware, creating perfect harmony.

Android is just software. While hardware is by others.
That's why android is designed to be open and flexible.

But as we all know, a single size of shirt cannot fit all body sizes.
That's why to achieve the level of what the original iPhone reached few years back, android is still struggling hard today.
Things are slightly better bcos of quad core, high RAM, etc.

But again, it's good that google still continue to acknowledge this disease and focusing to fix it. Hopefully they will be able to succeed one day.

the problem with voice action or siri or whatever voice controlled function is the accent barrier.  basically if u have a British accent and u set your phone to understand American accent the program don't know what the hell u r talking about.  The worst is if u have a Malaysian rojak accent.  The best I have used now is voice search using Chinese, 90% of the time it does exactly as I want, especially when I'm lazy to write / type Chinese words.  If offline voice typing is included, it will be just amazing.

apple software and hardware is made for each other. naturally u will have optimization. apple apps run better then android hardware being equal.that is the fact. let's not argue about that.

for some people silky smooth matters like shit. for some people it doesn't. i am the later category. but i need to multitask very much, and android does it the best! and apple, well, seems like they are happy with the way they multitask. so that's not fine with me.

is this available to htc one x? cause it stated there it's only for galaxy nexus, motorola xoom and nexus tablet

Actually I'm curious about this multitask thing.  I've used iOS and Android, and from experience, if you run something then press Home and start something else, the previous app is suspended and kept in memory.  If you invoke it again, it will continue where it left off, unless the app is already disposed of by Android to reclaim memory (or you kill it yourself via the multitasking bar in iOS).

So.  How does multitasking differ between iOS and Android?  Not trolling, just curious.

Some users just refused to admit improvement in the android os. They will not hesitate to find faults in any improvement. I have also being a IPhone user since first model to latest ip4s. Frankly other than it is only slightly smoother ui there is actually nothing exciting. I still prefer android for its larger choice of handsets. I do not go about condemning ios just because I prefer Android
OS preferences up to individual user. Use the one that suit your NEEDS not what other user says or want
Whatever apps I used in ios before I have alternatives in Android too, some apps even better than ios equivalent
And I will still buy ip5 when available to assess whether it can meet my needs better. I will S usual sell it off if it does not. Only me n me alone will decide which os is better for me. I do not wish to be influence or crippled by others opinions

open skype. talk to your gf on skype. your gf has ios and u have android. then ask your gf to look at her facebook coz u posted something really sexy there. when she switch to facebook, the skype video of her freezes! (voice still there but video freezes). now if u do the same on your android, your skype video don't freeze on her end.

now i want to put in context why its a bloody issue to me. I work outstation. i see my family every now and then. sometimes my kids and me play games together, but when they loose focus from skype, i can't see their face reaction during gameplay. and sometimes i post something somewhere and ask them to take a look. and again when they take a look at it, i can't see their face expression. really sucks!! sucks so much it makes me angry

Ahh I get it now.  Thanks.  I guess this is for certain apps only, like Skype, where it can run even in the background.  Apps like YouTube, etc, playback stops the moment you press Home.

So THIS is multitasking.

The list might not be too long, but Android ICS was arguably the most feature-rich platform already, so major changes were hardly required. With Android easily the most popular mobile OS out there, Jelly Bean's task is to solidify its lead by polishing the user experience...

Ahh I get it now.  Thanks.  I guess this is for certain apps only, like Skype, where it can run even in the background.  Apps like YouTube, etc, playback stops the moment you press Home.

So THIS is multitasking.

True multitasking has always been a heated argument. Then again, ask yourself how many of you would actually benefit from multitasking. Forumer ramz has given you a sample incident where multitasking would be beneficial, but how many people actually end up in such a situation? Hardware and software capabilities mean nothing if it cannot provide an excellent experience to the end user, and Google's commitment to Project Butter underlines this fact.

Argue whatever you want.  The video says every thing. Jellybean

SIRI just got b**** SLAP by Google Voice.... 

I wonder what does SIRI fanboys gotta say bout this...

SIRI just got b**** SLAP by Google Voice.... 

I wonder what does SIRI fanboys gotta say bout this...

so, post this video n the fruity forum then hehehe~

SIRI just got b**** SLAP by Google Voice.... 

I wonder what does SIRI fanboys gotta say bout this...

there will say they still have 5 months more to bit the crap out of google

Yes, still searching other resources. Maybe here I need to go: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.1.html

This is what I saw in my Eclipse now:

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Added on June 28, 2012, 10:37 pmThis source look like what I'm looking for: http://www.teamandroid.com/2012/06/27/inst...y-bean-sdk-now/

Uh...it is for Windows, but I use MacBook Pro right now. Ayya...

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Added on June 28, 2012, 10:39 pm
OK, lastly here I got it: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Just ignore pakcik Li.

Now we can try Google Play Store Jelly Bean version, download here:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/06/27/do...y-bean-edition/

More apk file will come to us since the Jelly Bean SDK now in the developers hand.

to start a war.  or just post there and then LARIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no need lah .. androids are better than those lame frutties....
the only thing they know is a smooth phone... apa raaa... smart phone should be smart, not just "pretty".. duhh...

im really eager to hear what hardcore frutti fanboys (in this particular thread) have to say...
im sure they've seen the video... 

jelly bean is really nice and all.
but no matter how good it is, other then galaxy nexus, i dont think any phone is going to get it.

cyanogen mod, after half a year working on ics, still not yet finish, recently only release the RC version.
jellybean? dont hold your breath...

anyway, i'm superbly satisfied with ics now.
my phone started out with stock GB > custom GB>stock ICS>custom ICS

the experience keeps getting better and better.
now have something new to look forward, JB 

but this wait isnt goin to be a painfull one, ICS is really good, enough to last for the time being.

jelly bean is really nice and all.
but no matter how good it is, other then galaxy nexus, i dont think any phone is going to get it.

cyanogen mod, after half a year working on ics, still not yet finish, recently only release the RC version.
jellybean? dont hold your breath...

anyway, i'm superbly satisfied with ics now.
my phone started out with stock GB > custom GB>stock ICS>custom ICS

the experience keeps getting better and better.
now have something new to look forward, JB 

but this wait isnt goin to be a painfull one, ICS is really good, enough to last for the time being.

ya.. lucky i got myself a Gnex ..     
i started with eclairs, and seeing the improvement until now, i'm so glad i didnt pick up an iphone last time

i just flashed JB on my nexus.. so far, it really is buttery smooth..
it seems to have a noticeable scale in/out effect when switching between apps...

i;d probably flashed back to custom ICS later, cos stock JB still doesnt have the mods that i want, which is navi bar customisation...

actually, after you downloaded the android sdk tools rev 20, then you close the sdk manager and reopen again, the jellybean sdk will be available for download(just did it yesterday)

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Added on June 29, 2012, 7:06 pm
btw, is it just me or the jellybean play store is laggy? lol

after watching the jellybean features videos,
i kindda have the urge to sell S2 and get a nexus.

but then again, the lack of SD card support is really sad.
when you get used to 32GB storage, its really hard to go back.

so, post this video n the fruity forum then hehehe~

ya.. lucky i got myself a Gnex ..     
i started with eclairs, and seeing the improvement until now, i'm so glad i didnt pick up an iphone last time

i just flashed JB on my nexus.. so far, it really is buttery smooth..
it seems to have a noticeable scale in/out effect when switching between apps...

i;d probably flashed back to custom ICS later, cos stock JB still doesnt have the mods that i want, which is navi bar customisation...

Yayaa...got it:

Owh. Don't know. I can't install it to my SGS3.

I think Google wants to put an end to the LAGGY ANDROID complaints already.

And, no more Apple is smoother next time(although it's not theoretically). 

its already too late for them....as ios have owning them since the iphone 3gs era

android just getting stupid and stupid....with the stupid apps that running background that cant be stop

like those useless google plus, email, gmail apps...which is taking hell lot of ram ....you hav to install a task killer just to kill it and it still restart   

just let the user decide if that apps should be running at background.....i bet it gonna be as smooth as ios

Looks like you still don't understand android os n how it works especially on task n apps management
You are still having windows mentality
Go read n Google more on this subject

It means that android apps ecosystem is not sustainable and will crash very soon.