ROOT PACKAGE 4.4
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- Refreshed interface with white elements instead of blue
- Ability for applications to trigger translucency in the navigation and status bars[126]
- Ability for applications to use "immersive mode" to keep the navigation and status bars hidden while maintaining user interaction[127]
- Optimizations for performance on devices with lower specifications, including zRAM support and "low RAM" device API[121]
- Wireless printing capability[121]
- NFC host card emulation, enabling a device to replace smart cards[121]
- WebViews now based on Chromium engine (feature parity with Chrome for Android 30)
- Expanded functionality for notification listener services[121]
- Public API for developing and managing text messaging clients.[128]
- New framework for UI transitions
- Storage access framework for retrieving content and documents from other sources
- Sensor batching, step detector and counter APIs[121]
- Settings application now makes it possible to select default text messaging and home (launcher) application
- Audio tunneling, audio monitoring, loudness enhancer
- Built-in screen recording feature (primarily for developers, as usage of ADB is required)[129]
- Native infrared blaster API
- Expanded accessibility APIs and system-level closed captioning settings
- New experimental runtime virtual machine, ART (not enabled by default)[130]
- Bluetooth Message Access Profile (MAP) support[131]
- Disabled access to battery statistics by third-party applications[132]
- Settings application no longer uses a multi-pane layout on devices with larger screens
- Wi-Fi and mobile data activity (TX/RX) indicators are moved to quick settings[133]
- Improvements to auto focus, white balance and HDR+ for the Nexus 5 camera[135][136]
- Better application compatibility for the experimental ART runtime
- The Camera application now loads Google+ Photos instead of Gallery when swiping away from the camera view
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
- Further security enhancements and bug fixes
- Removal of the "App Ops" application permissions control system, introduced in Android 4.3[138]