The build contains a handful of minor new features (
mostly app updates), but as always, there is a list of fixes, improvements, and known issues.
Not exact matches
Compared to the jump between the Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean can be considered a minor
update, which
mostly brings performance improvements and minor user interface changes, like a new set of widgets for the Homescreen, expandable notifications and a more user - friendly gallery
app.
Several tablets already have already received the newly released (in late July) Android 3.2
update that boasts improved backwards
app compatibility and better hardware utilization among other goodness
mostly geared towards developers.
As we are
mostly all on 7.0 on TouchWiz / Samsung Experience, we use a new method of «Optimizing
apps» (you are able to see this when you
update your phone, it will show a notification with the Android Nougat icon, saying that it is upgrading in the background), so this way of optimizing
apps also unloads target packages, ultimately disrupting the idmapping process at boot (due to target package not existing) and thus, a few people experience overlay unloads after a reboot.
While Windows 8.1's new
apps and hidden features should leave you
mostly sated if you've already bought into Microsoft's modern - style vision of the future, the
update still isn't... quite... perfect.
The 7.3.1
update mostly focuses on improvements to the Paranoid Camera
app, which was launched in the last
update and PA's announcement post notes that pretty much all user - reported bugs have been fixed in this
update.
Apple puts on a
mostly - annual developer conference in California to showcase new software, software
updates, and - sometimes - technologies that developers can leverage in order to make their
apps more innovative and up to date.
The Android Wear 1.4
update adds
mostly small changes to the
app's settings screen, so users should not expect any massive overhauls or major new features.
As the Nokia devices run on
mostly pure Android aside from a custom camera
app in the Nokia 8, Nokia will have an easier time pushing out
updates to the devices with less tinkering to do on the custom skins most manufacturers apply on their device.
Microsoft has
updated the Office Mobile
apps that
mostly improve the inking features introduced earlier this month, but OneNote and Sway were the ones to receive more significant
updates.
This is
mostly so that developers are able to test their
apps and get them ready for the new Android Wear
update that's coming this fall, alongside Android N.