To help the hardware along, JB made the CPU go into its highest performance mode the moment you touched the display, so that it would update the screen as fast as possible.Īnother major improvement was expandable notifications. This made everything run in lockstep with the screen refresh cycle, a standard 60 Hertz at the time.
What it did was introduce triple buffering for the UI and applied vsync timing to all drawing and animation. This work was done under Project Butter, of course. Now that the look of the interface was settled, it was time to make it run smooth – smooth as butter. The ICS version of Holo was more minimalistic, whereas Honeycomb had a touch of futuristic flair. Months later version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich brought Holo to the smaller displays of phones. Android 2.3 Gingerbread (which we covered in a previous installment) was the last version before a major split.Īndroid 3.0 Honeycomb introduced Holo UI, but it was a version made exclusively for tablets. Android’s early interface was promising if rather clunky, which led most makers to skin it – back then skins were noticeably better than stock UI. Even a desktop OS like Windows 10 will stick around for only 10 years (it was introduced in 2015 and Microsoft will end extended support in 2025).īut before we talk about Jelly Bean, we have to set the stage.
Nine years is a long time for an operating system, especially in the mobile world. Jelly Bean first arrived in 2012 with Android version 4.1, but the name would stick around for two more minor releases (4.2 and 4.3). As Google prepares to retire Android Jelly Bean to the great farm in the cloud where it can play with the alphabetically smaller versions, we thought this would be a good time to have a look back at a life well lived.
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