Running CyanogenMod nightly, because it's the closest I can get to open source: I love getting updates in the form of git SHA-1s every few days.
I wonder if upstream Android will ever take to a rolling-release approach.
What's new in Android 4.3
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Re: What's new in Android 4.3
#122Is Google lacking imagination? This is the third version with the same name. I'm missing the times when every release was a new sweet thing.
Honeycomb did the same thing.
Re: What's new in Android 4.3
#123Not to start a flame war here...but what is the likelihood that newer devices still on 4.1 will be bumped to 4.3, on the reasoning that third-parties waited until 4.3 to make the upgrade? Or does it become increasingly unlikely that any upgrade will happen? I have a Sprint HTC One...which was released in 4.2's latter days but still had 4.1...wondering if an upgrade will ever happen
You'll get 4.3, and even at least one more for HTC One. The ones that receive very poor to no further support are the low-end devices, or the not very popular ones, which is also very unfortunate. That's why I think that if Google announced Motorola will support its own devices for 3 years , just like Apple and Canonical also promised for Ubuntu Edge, they would have a huge competitive advantage over other OEM's (whi…
I like your theory, but Motorola regularly abandons even it's flagship devices.
Re: What's new in Android 4.3
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely ActionBarCompat is the best addition to 4.3. Thanks for the video link.
Um, its worth nothing that ActionBarCompat is not an addition to 4.3. Its an addition to the support library. If you include the support library in your project and you can use features from 4.3, such as fragments, and the action bar all the way back to android 1.6. The support library is a backport of modern functionality. This is part of googles approach to addressing fragmentation on the Android platform.
Small correction, the support library which has ActionBarCompat only goes back to 2.1 (each version has a number representing the API version it supports, in this case v7)
Re: What's new in Android 4.3
#125>You can access notifications through new APIs that let you register a notification listener service and with permission of the user, receive notifications as they are displayed in the status bar...You'll be able to launch any intents attached to the notification or its actions, as well as dismiss it from the system, allowing your app to provide a complete user interface to notifications. wow. that should have some i…
Hello smartwatches!
And perhaps anti-notification-spam apps, if I understand this right?