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hey guys it's for an amendment from pocketnow.com we're taking an early look at Android 4.1 jelly bean we're actually looking at the emulator right now just to get an early preview of course a lot of this stuff doesn't work that you would expect to work on a phone or tablet but we're gonna give it our best shot you're gonna kind of walk through it with me for the first time here so we're gonna slide to unlock and slightly different animation here kind of this little dotted pattern we're gonna point out the little stuff to just along the way so the first thing that they talked about that you can change or that has been changed is the way that widgets are added to your homescreen so typical scenario here we've got lots of icons on our home screen and in fact let's add some more just to crowd it up a little bit so that the what I show you next would make more sense so let's say we've got a lot of icons here on the home screen we want to add a widget so just like an Ice Cream Sandwich we go over to widgets and let's add bookmarks and I should mention this is going to be slow because it's the emulator emulators are always slow one of the the cornerstone features of ice of jellybean that is is that performance should be better or at least perceived performance should be better through project butter to make things quote buttery smooth so we're excited to see how that works on an actual phone I'm gonna pick up a widget here but as you know if you've used the bookmark widget it's huge it really doesn't fit except for on its own screen most of the time so as you can see as I move it around the screen it'll resize the bookmark widget too however it will be required to fit so if I go over here in the corner it'll be a different size than if I put it down here so if I release it it resizes it dynamically and so I can actually fit it on that home screen another cool feature is once you have stuff on your home screen let's say I want to move this around but I've got icons in the way watch the icons will move out of the way so that I can properly place my widget so that's a nice little feature of jellybean certainly so let's move these back around so they're not covering up the Google search bar another new feature of jellybean very small features if you tap and hold on the background you get a slightly different UI than what you got in Ice Cream Sandwich kind of this bigger in your chooser thingy now the next thing we want to talk about is a notification tray because that has been revamped or most importantly developers can tie into the notification tray to do all kinds of cool stuff with notifications they can do play controls if it's a music player they can put special buttons if maybe if it's a Skype app turkey and you may have a missed call there can be a call app right in the notification tray and if I open the notification tray now you won't notice much of a difference except that the clock and date are bigger kind of kind of more beautiful I think and of course we have got the button for settings so let's try to put something up in the notification tray gonna be creative here and set an alarm because I know that'll show up in the notification tray under certain conditions so we will set an alarm for one minute from now or thereabout so we're gonna scroll up and trust me using an emulator on a mouse and keyboard configuration it's not the easiest thing ever so please bear with me as I flip through awkwardly to get to 21 I just went backwards I think and hopefully the clock stays at 320 okay done and done gravy one minute from now that is going to be nice now one thing I want to point out before the alarm goes off and is really annoying if you go into settings things look a little bit different you'll notice right away that the Bluetooth button the toggle switch has been revamped a little bit just kind of a small touch so if we turn it on slides over to the side okay here's the alarm so I'm going to pretend like I don't hear it and let's see if I go into notification tray I can do anything with this okay good it's still up in the notification tray now there's a gesture that you do in order to get more information and this this might not even be activated for this program yet or for the alarm app so you're supposed to do two finger touch and obviously in the emulator you really can't do that so if I kind of clicked and tap on it app info comes up that's actually kind of different but there's there's not much I can do I can swipe it off the screen least I think I can it doesn't want to swipe because it's snoozed but anyhow a lot of cool stuff coming with notifications and notifications are a great way a great place to come to kind of see all of this stuff that needs your attention and and in in a Android 4.1 it gets even better so let's click around just a little bit more see if we see any other changes again a lot of the other changes we really can't show you because this is an emulator one of the biggest changes is the addition of Google now which is an interesting location-based app thing that shows you tries to guess what kind of information you would need based on your calendar availability where you are and other variables so for example if you're at a restaurant it will suggest certain entrees for you because I don't know what restaurant you are where you are and it will look up sort of top dishes at that restaurant though way you activate Google now is you take your finger and you drag it up from the bottom and if I do that with my mouse as you can see nothing is happening another change is with the keyboard and there's really not a place that we can go to show the keyboard and actually maybe a message it would be a place to do it so if I click new message and if I type message now what it will do is as you're typing it will suggest the next word based on your usage or your history kind of like swifty SwiftKey or really exactly like Swift key so for example if you type I am going and this might not work because it doesn't have any experience with how I type going to the let's say that the Android 4.1 has realized that I go to the gym a lot and I type the message I'm going to the gym supposedly it would show you the neck the next word before you finish typing the previous words so that's kind of a cool feature so let's see if there's any other things that we can show you before cutting off this video again there's a lot we can't show you just because it's an emulator another new thing to Android 4.1 is that it's got a series like kind of assistant which just means that you can use the little voice search button which actually isn't here right now to do things like ask for information or do all those Siri type things but as you can see it's not included in this emulator I'm wondering if you can move around this Google search bar or if it's persistent like an Ice Cream Sandwich and yeah it looks like it's persistent it looks like you can't move it around it's just there all the time whether you like it or not but that's that's why they have third-party launchers let's jump on the camera app real quick and see if we can notice any sort of changes that looks really weird things look pretty much the same camera does have some new features in jellybean but nothing we can't really show off here in just an emulator and let's see if there's anything interesting with the multitask UI again hopefully this is a place that has smoothed up a lot because in the Android Ice Cream Sandwich it's hit or miss whether that's going to be smooth when you hit the multitask UI usually it is miss so there's a there's a lot to show you actually when we get a device in and we can sit down to the device and show you it will be a matter of probably days until the development communities get jellybean at least in a rough form on some devices like the Galaxy Nexus the gala the Nexus S probably even the galaxy s2 a lot of the popular phones so keep an eye out on pocket now we're going to be keeping an eye out for you and of course in mid-july you'll get jellybean over-the-air if you've got a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus S and devices in the future we'll ship with jelly bean of course as things tend to go now if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and we'll put some instructions in the description on how to get this working on your computer if you want to mess around with the emulator thanks for watching that's it for now