Android KitKat
Android KitKat Welcome to Android 4.4 KitKat! Android KitKat brings all of Android's most innovative, most beautiful, and most useful features to more devices everywhere. This document provides a glimpse of what's new for developers. Find out more about KitKat for consumers at www.android.com . Making Android for everyone Android 4.4 is designed to run fast, smooth, and responsively on a much broader range of devices than ever before — including on millions of entry-level devices around the world that have as little as 512MB RAM . KitKat streamlines every major component to reduce memory use and introduces new APIs and tools to help you create innovative, responsive, memory-efficient applications. OEMs building the next generation of Android devices can take advantage of targeted recommendations and options to run Android 4.4 efficiently, even on low-memory devices. Dalvik JIT code cache tuning, kernel samepage merging (KSM), swap to zRAM, and...