#Voice actions android 4.0 mac

In Android 2.x, 3.x, and iOS 5, you press a button to start recording, say what you have to say, and when you stop talking the phone sends the entire recording to the cloud. There's nothing really revolutionary here, and influences from TouchWiz and iOS and other systems are obvious, but the combination of all the features and little refinements will make Android much more approachable to new users. You can press a button in any screen to see recent apps and swipe them to the side to close them.

Other new features include the ability to create a folder by dragging one icon on top of another, and a customizable quick action bar at the bottom of the screen. New features for phones include resizable widgets with stacks and scrolling for richer information at your fingertips. The Android home screen got a lot of love in Android 4. I know this sounds like a minor thing, but it was sorely missed in stock Android. Hold down the power and volume down buttons to capture a screenshot of the currently running application. Roboto is part of a magazine-like revamp to many of the redesigned Android apps, which now have 'big bold pictures with giant headlines'.

#Voice actions android 4.0 mac

By putting a new emphasis on typography, Duarte is taking a page from Steve Jobs who credited a college calligraphy class he audited for the great looking text on the Mac and iPhone.

Android 4 sports a new type face called 'Roboto' which was designed especially for high resolution screens like the one found on the Galaxy Nexus. Anybody who had complained about Android not having the level of polish or usability as other mobile OS's should give Android 4 fresh look. New widgets, new gestures, context sensitive action bars, more discoverable commands - these are just the tip of the iceberg. So he gave the user interface a top to bottom overhaul to make it 'enchanting, easy, and powerful'. Designer Matias Duarte (former designer of WebOS) says 'While people like and need Android, they didn't love Android'. As usual we'll break this up into user-oriented features and developer-oriented features.