10 KitKat Features Offering All New Android Experience


#2 Chrome WebView

Chrome WebView in KitKat is built to ensure fluid web browsing experience. Android apps that feature web content will now use Chrome to render web components accurately and quickly. The Chrome WebView supports HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It supports most of the HTML5 features available in Chrome for Android 30.

#1 Enhanced support for connectivity options

 With KitKat update, you Smartphone will be quite an internet of things device. Android 4.4 brings support for the Message Access Profile (MAP) enabling Bluetooth-enabled cars to exchange messages with Android devices. It also supports Bluetooth HID over GATT (HOGP) offering apps a low-latency link with low-power peripheral devices such as mice, joysticks, and keyboards.

Android 4.4 introduces platform support for built-in IR blasters, and a new API and system service for developers to build apps that can leverage them. This means the IR Blaster, present in the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One will now be usable.

It also supports Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS), a way to stream media and other data faster between devices already on the same Wi-Fi network.

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