Android 4.0 delivers a refined, unified UI for phones and tablets and introduces innovative features such as:
- Android 4.0 builds on the things people love most about Android like easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and deep interactivity.
- Refined animations.
- Home screen folders and favorites tray.
- Resizable widgets.
- The soft keyboard in Android 4.0 makes text input even faster and more accurate.
- Android 4.0 introduces a powerful new voice input engine that offers a continuous "open microphone" experience and streaming voice recognition.
- Lock screens now let users do more without unlocking.
- Explore-by-touch mode feature lets users navigate without having to see the screen.
- Quick responses for incoming calls.
- Swipe to dismiss notifications, tasks, and browser tabs.
- Control over network data.
- Rich and versatile camera capabilities like continuous focus, zero shutter lag exposure, Stabilized image zoom, single-motion panorama, face detection etc.
- Gallery app was redesigned with photo editor.
- Live Effects for transforming video.
- Hardware buttons make users to snap a screenshot and store it locally.
- Sync and manage Google Chrome bookmarks.
- Android Beam for NFC-based sharing. It lets people instantly exchange favorite apps, contacts, music, videos etc.
- Face Unlock is a new screen-lock option that lets users unlock their devices with their faces.
- Wi-Fi Direct and Bluetooth HDP support.
