Android 4.3 was released - what's new and interesting?

Together with the new version of the tablet Nexus 7, Google updated the Android platform and version number 4.3, making it part of the news that the company has not announced at Google I / O but it has subsequently suggested. Tablets running version 4.2 of the Android platform have benefited from the possibility to create multiple user accounts, but the new 4.3 goes on. Parents may call at restricting access to unwanted applications, purchases made from apps or games, and content filtering recommended to children. At the interface appearance stands autocompletion names and numbers in phonebook Dial Pad, improvement of prediction algorithms keyboard, USB peripherals reduced latencies and appearance of a separate sections for blocked applications in Setting / Apps. In addition, changes list also specific simplify the steps to initialize a new terminal Android, faster switching between user profiles and the optional use of location based on Wi-Fi networks without activating the module data. Not part of Android 4.3, but released along with, new application Google Play Games is an interface to already released Play Game Services, Android benefiting now also from a games center such as Microsoft Xbox Live or Apple's Game Center. From a technical standpoint, Android 4.3 adds support for Bluetooth 4.0 Low-Energy standard (Bluetooth Smart) and AVRCP Bluetooth 1.3profile, which allows audio tag ID display on screen connected peripherals such as a car audio system. The audio from Android 4.3 now offers surround sound stereo virtualization trough Cingo licensing technology from Fraunhoffer and video codec package has been enhanced with a VP8 encoder. Interface optimizations performance that began with Android 4.1 and Project Butter were enriched with a smarter rendering pipeline, able to order, group or join calls 2D and receiving better parallel processing. These optimizations promise performance gains without any intervention or modification of the software developers. Equally interesting is the emergence of OpenGL ES 3.0, which brings a significant number of improvements in processing, compression and filtering textures or polygonal graphics calculation. At this point, OpenGL ES 3.0 is supported by some graphics cores like Adreno 305, 320 and 330, second generation models Midgard from ARM (Mali T6xx) and newer models PowerVR family Rugue Version 4.3 of the Android platform has already started to be available for Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus terminals, the impatient can proceed to manually update if they have not already received the automatic update and can start download from here.