Monday, November 25, 2013

How Google Shrank Android For Version 4.4 KitKat

The Android operating system has matured. The engineers that build Android at Google believe that they have achieved “feature parity” with the other top mobile operating systems (chiefly, Apple’s iOS), so that Android can compete against anybody. 

With parity achieved, Google turned its efforts in Android to other aspects of the operating system in the last couple of years to make it better. First, Google focused on the performance of Android for the Jelly Bean 4.1 release of the OS in an operation it called “Project Butter.” The effort was to make Android faster and more reliable, while being less prone to crashes.

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