Category: Cell Phone Talk
So for those who have or want an android device here is the link to read up on kitcat. link: http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/
Hi, I was doing some tech gear adventuring in android to day, so I used my USB ODDen cable and connected my USB wireless keyboard and found out my phone will use my keyboard. I am posting this here for those who have a android device running Jelly bean or Kitcat just encase they want a full sise keyboard to type on and get around in firefox.
Is there anything new accessibility wise in KidCat? If you have a list it would be great.
so far web views wil be handled via chrom, other then that not sure so far. My tablit has not received its update going to check soon.
So its time, kitcat has now arrived on my tablet yesterday I now have worked with it. It does bring speed improvements but the web views need to be worked on some more. The apps I used for my test are fox news, inc gadget and chrome, Ingaget let me see the headlines but it was hard to read the articles. Fox news allowed me to view the videos but the articles do to chrom beeing buggy did not work well at all. Chrom fell flat on its face after about 5 minutes and I will test later if I can serf with chrom on this sight. Later on I am iwll pear my BT keyboard to see what has been added via keyboard support. Again, talkback has yet to be updated so I am not sure what is come down the pipe for Kit Cat. More will be added to this board when a beta of talkback is released for testing purposes.
Okay, a beta of talkback has not come but so far I have made a few observations when it comes to web views. 1. Ocapela, e-speak are the best TTS engines so far followed up by Ivona for KitCat. 2. Depending on your screen orientation, you will swipe either left or right up or down to read in webviews. I said inc jet gave me issues but after toying around with KitCat it was me the user not the app. I will visit fox news later on when I can devote more tme to kitCat. OH, there is a captcha settings under accessibility, at this time I am not sure what this feature is used fore in KitCat.
Okay, I have a slightly off-topic question here, and I'm sorry to interrupt the flow, such as it is, but here goes.
Seriously, what's with the OS names for Android? Jellybean? Ice Cream Sandwich? Kit-kat? I'm kinda wondering what'll be next. I'm torn on this, between being sort of dismissive and honestly curious. Is there some sort of technical reason for these names, or at the very least for words to link to an acronym (for instance, ICS). O is it just people being silly? I'm not sure whether to think it's silly or innovative.
Hi.
Google always gave each version of android a dessert name.
And each name is always in alphabetical order.
The first android versions didn't have a dessert name so the first name started with android 1.5 was Cupcake
Then we had Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich... jelibean and now kit kat.
Everyone thought that the current android version would be called keylime pie but to our surprise it is called kit kat after an agreement of google and the chockolate company.
Nikos
I am not sure why google gives there OS sweets names like other then Kit Cat "that is what the devs at Google love to eat.".
Back with more news, fox news does work but again its depends on how you have locked your screen in portrait or landscape. In portrait you will swipe down or explore down to read an article in landscape left or right iwll work for reading web views. Do to Chrom handling all web views you will see better web view accessibility for talkback. BrailleBack I can not test at this time because my braille display was sold a while back.
Okay, as promised I now have a kitcat device my new nexis5 as a daily driver for my personal number. So here goes with a review and a podcast followed up later on when I can get some web based apps installed. One, the new android really does make use of the quad core processers in todays phones. my nexis5 has zero lag, when typing, navagating and opening apps. It ability to do OCR wil be tested later I will report back, the same goes for bar code scanning and object recognition. So far I really do see a improvement over jelly bean and the lag I saw sometimes even in quad core devices. Now, for accessibility: I placed two fingers on the start up screen, waited for talkback to start, exited the tutorial and with no sighted assistants from my wife Kim who was sitting there watching glee, set up my device with head phones. So the set-up part was seamless and quite easy. When I got to my home screen everything was labeled and nicely layed out. The phone dialer is accessible, the in call screen work well and hanging up a call is a breeze. I will be back with more of this review when I have had this device for about a month.
Boy oh boy, Captcha Settings? My Starfly but the imagination does run wild with this one. There's no technical reason the device you're using couldn't simply authenticate the captchas automatically for you since it's more difficult than just a spam web crawler.
I can answer the food thing:
Software is really quite a dull business most times, fixing bugs, entering tickets, writing documents on how things work, and fixing more bugs, and again, fixing more bugs ... often in areas of the code that haven't been touched in years, and hoping and testing that you did not break something.
So code names that are kind of fun have been around for decades. Only Marketing would never let these code names out on the market, not until Android. Probably because some people would, like you said, call it silly or others would say unprofessional. I personally think it's a bit refreshing but that is just me.