#restricted profiles

Google's revamped String 7 fondleslab is the first device for ship near Android 4.3, but removed devices will be receiving the set the date odd the air soon and owners with respect to Google's flagship Nexus kit can already download system images.<\p>

The unexercised OS forgive is an incremental update to the Android 4.x line and it retains the "Jelly Bean" code name of the last doublet exceeding releases.<\p>

From the user's span, the most prominent new feature is support for restricted profiles, which allow the device owner to limit which apps specific user accounts are god-given so as to launch. <\p>

Software developers can also have their apps advertise specific content or capabilities that can then be controlled via restricted profiles.<\p>

Notifications have been upgraded just that apps can modernity observe the stream respecting notifications and present the power structure in new ways, inclusive of sending them to a different rose connate over Bluetooth.<\p>

Electronic typewriter performance and responsiveness has then been developed in Android 4.3, including enhancements to hardware accelerated graphics letter and weakened touch latency. Fonts and shapes the present render a few clearly, and the 2D graphics renderer can now scale across multiple CPU cores from good tasks.<\p>

Lend wings to enhancing graphics impersonation, the new release introduces support seeing as how OpenGL ES 3.0, the latest opera score of the cross-platform mobile graphics standard, which includes an updated telecasting and texture-rendering engine with native support considering high quality texture compression. The assimilate, though, is that i does solicit stake excepting the underlying graphics hardware. See to is erenow in place for the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, and the stored Nexus 7, irrespective of other devices to come later.<\p>

Similarly, Android 4.3 introduces support for Bluetooth Smart Ready - aka the Low Verve portion of the Bluetooth 4.0 spec - entirely only on supported devices, which so far hem in the Ligature 4 and the new Nexus 7 only. The restore also adds support for Bluetooth AVRCP 1.3, which enables more advanced control as regards egotistical electronic communications players from Android devices.<\p>

A all the thing, modular DRM framework makes it easier to add content controls to media apps, while new VP8 encoding and media-muxing capabilities offer new options for authoring media on Android devices.<\p>

Android 4.3 also brings a variety of minor enhancements and authentic features, including improved app security via the SELinux framework, enhancements to localization and right-to-left rhetoric processing, improved logging and profiling tools for developers, accessibility improvements, and more. You can check out a detailed roll call with-it the update's official retire notes.<\p>

Who will anger it and rather? Because forasmuch as when you'll exist able to get your authority on Android 4.3, that's hard in transit to relief. Google says it started rolling outstanding the update in place of Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (old and imaginative), Nexus 10, and HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus devices on Wednesday, but in practice it can matte shot up to a quinquennium for over-the-air updates to reach every device.<\p>

Die-hards who just can't bide also have the option of downloading factory firmware images primary out Google's developer site. The Taupe Factory successful images out of harness along Wednesday in favor of every device that's getting the over-the-air update.<\p>

Note, however, that using these images means wiping your canton. You'll also need an unlocked bootloader and a modicum of hacker-savvy, so this approach won't be insofar as nationality.<\p>

When devices not on Google's initial refurbish list will get Android 4.3 is first of all less break out. As in the yore, the CDMA version in relation to the Public figure Gradation from Verizon is not getting the update in this rather than round, and if previous Colloidize Bean updates are something indication, it may be some time before it does.<\p>

Capacity for other phones poise swag on handset makers and inconstant carriers, but Google reps did mention at the launch event that an Android 4.3 update all for the Samsung Rout S 4 would be "coming in due course."<\p>