ANDROID KITKAT FEATURES

Ten Amazing Features Of Upcoming Android KitKat

#10 SMS integration in Hangouts

Imagine what happens when all your SMS and MMS gets integrated into the stand alone app, Google Hangouts? The app will go beyond just being an internet messenger into becoming a single destination for all your communication needs including video chat, instant messaging, and sending SMSs, MMSs. Android Police revealed a screenshots of the new app with the Settings menu that features toggles of turning on SMS and retrieving MMS and also tread of an SMS conversation thread in the Hangouts app.

#9 Navigation and Status Bars

The notification bar which went through many changes in terms of the what features it displayed and how, but its background remained solid black in colour till now. With new Android, it will be transparent and icons like battery, signal strength and others will be white. Same is the case with Navigation Bar, where the Home, Back and App Switcher software keys are located.

#8 Smoother UI

The users always complained that Androids is a memory gobbler.  However the Android 4.4. is said to be based on a new Linux 3.8-based kernel that is rumored to help lower RAM consumption, a boon to the devices that run on as little RAM as 512MB. It makes Android 4.4 is much lighter and faster than Android 4.3 and older versions.

#7 Design tweaks

There is also a new App Drawer which looks similar to the Android 4.3 but bring a flatter look to the icons YouTube, Settings, Google, and Voice Search and QuickOffice. 

The new Android is to bring a flatter look to the icons of apps like YouTube, Settings, Google Settings, Google and Voice Search and Settings. And you can also get a revamped clock, stopwatch and timer apps, and a new download section for apps and games.

#6 Always listening

Android KitKat may come with the homepage-based "OK Google Now" abilities, meaning the platform will support phones that can "listen" for commands without draining the life of the battery. Currently, the ability to speak commands is limited to the speaker button on the Google Search widget and within the Google Search app itself.

#5 Cloud Printing

The Android devices will now have the ability to wirelessly print with Cloud Printing, a service that was launched in June this year. It will allow them to send commands to print documents from their tablets, Smartphones and laptops to connected printers, which should be ideal for Microsoft Office.

#4 Camera icon on lock screen

With Android 4.3 you can access the Camera app from the locked screen by swiping to the right, however in new 4.4, while the option remains same, there is a Camera icon on the lower right corner for easy access, similar to iOS 7.

#3 QuickOffice integration

You can expect the preloaded QuickOffice app in the KitKat Android, productivity app that Google purchased recently. So it will be easy for the users to edit Microsoft Office files. However the app is already available for free on both Android and iOS platforms.

#2 Holo theme gone!

You might have liked the blue gray Holo theme on previous Android versions, the theme which turned your battery icon and Wi-Fi icon to blue when they are in good healt.  The new theme in Android 4.3 will instead, be a white-gray, which was first seen in a video showcasing a Nexus 5 found.

#1 New dialer

You may also miss the Android 4.3’s dialer which was a blue numbers striven on black background. The new one comes with white background, blue numbers and blue boundary, and goes hand-in-hand with the People app. It is also in tune with Google's latest design that features flatter surfaces.