Google Officially Announced the Latest Version of Android OS "KitKat 4.4"

Google has officially announced the latest version of Android operating system which carries the name KitKat 4.4,  the announcement happened after the disclosure of its new official smartphone "Nexus 5".

  

The most important feature in this update is the "Immersive Mode", which is new mode in the Android operating system particularly useful in reading books, playing games and watching video, where this mode automatically hides everything on the screen, such as bar alerts and navigation bar to allow the largest possible area of screen.

  

Google also aim of this update is to make the Android platform more accessible to all categories of users, Google said on its blog that some low specifications of Android phones cannot take advantage of modern versions of the operating system due to the limited memory, but with Android 4.4 Google has reduced the space needed of RAM, where it canceled some of the services that are running in the background, and reduce memory consumption for some of the features that are used on a permanent basis.

  

Google did not reduce memory consumption on the operating system level, but also extended to include all services and applications such as Google Chrome and YouTube, Now, because of these improvements Android can now work comfortably on devices that have 512 MB ​​of RAM.

  

In this new update, Google added improvements on NFC technology, new platform for printing allows developers to add a new option within their applications allows printing from the phone to wireless printers or via cloud printing services such as Google Cloud Print.

  

The new update provided improved possibilities for developers to develop SMS applications better and more integrated with Android, and it added support for new set of sensors with low power consumption, such as finder steps and counter steps.

  

In the new update, Android supports infrared control for devices that provide the necessary technical and port, to use the phone as a remote control for TVs and other home appliances.

   

Google said that the new update will be available firstly to Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10, in addition to Google Play version of HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4.

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