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Top Developer Features in Android 4.4 KitKat

Developer.com Staff
By Developer.com Staff

Smartphones and tablets featuring the latest version of Android, 4.4 KitKat, will be hitting store shelves soon. The update comes with a plethora of new features, but a few are of significant interest to the mobile development industry, according to ReadWrite. They include the following:

  1. Full-screen immersive mode
  2. Scene transitions
  3. Screen recording
  4. Storage Access Framework
  5. New WebView and Chromium features
  6. New NFC platform support
  7. Print API
  8. Infrared Blasters
  9. New Bluetooth profiles
  10. Low-power sensors
  11. RenderScript takes advantage of device hardware

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