When Google announced and showcased Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at the I/O conference, it was understood that Google wanted this to be a somewhat minor update to last year's Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), so in this review, we'll just be covering all new features. However, if you want to have an insight of what Android currently offers, you should read our Ice cream Sandwich review then proceed to read this.
How does Jelly Bean look?
The build's aesthetics generally looks like ICS but with a few tweaks here and there, which is a good thing. The problem that Android had previously was that the UI was and still is inconsistent in some areas. Jelly Bean adapts itself on the dark "Holo" theme, which is the Tron-like blue, black and gradient grey theme you can see in the settings below:
The theme itself is also a part of the open-source project for Android, which basically means that developers can adapt the theme to their apps, which was originally introduced in the ICS source - a good example of a current application that uses this is Boid for Twitter.
Boid looks fantastic, and I believe that by Android having an actual theme, it could make applications a little more aesthetically consistent in future. However, I do feel that something like this should have been done a long time ago, but still, it's better late than never.
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