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Android 4.0 delivers a refined, unified UI for phones and tablets andintroduces innovative features for users and developers. This document providesa glimpse of the many new features and technologies that make Android 4.0simple, beautiful, and beyond smart.

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Simple, beautiful, beyond smart

Android 4.0 builds on the things people love most about Android — easymultitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets,and deep interactivity — and adds powerful new ways of communicating andsharing.

Refined, evolved UI

Focused on bringing the power of Android to the surface, Android 4.0 makescommon actions more visible and lets users navigate withsimple, intuitive gestures. Refined animations and feedbackthroughout the system make interactions engaging and interesting. An entirelynew typeface optimized for high-resolution screens improvesreadability and brings a polished, modern feel to the user interface.

Virtual buttons in the System Bar let users navigate instantly to Back, Home,and Recent Apps. The System Bar and virtual buttons are presentacross all apps, but can be dimmed by applications for full-screen viewing.Users can access each application's contextual options in the ActionBar, displayed at the top (and sometimes also at the bottom) of thescreen.

Multitasking is a key strength of Android and it's made eveneasier and more visual on Android 4.0. The Recent Apps button lets users jumpinstantly from one task to another using the list in the System Bar. The listpops up to show thumbnail images of apps used recently — tapping athumbnail switches to the app.

Rich and interactive notifications let users keep inconstant touch with incoming messages, play music tracks, see real-time updatesfrom apps, and much more. On smaller-screen devices, notifications appear at thetop of the screen, while on larger-screen devices they appear in the SystemBar.

Home screen folders andfavorites tray

New home screen folders offer a new way for users to grouptheir apps and shortcuts logically, just by dragging one onto another. Also,in All Apps launcher, users can now simply drag an app to getinformation about it or immediately uninstall it, or disable a pre-installed app.

On smaller-screen devices, the home screen now includes a customizablefavorites tray visible from all home screens. Users can dragapps, shortcuts, folders, and other priority items in or out of the favoritestray for instant access from any home screen.

Resizablewidgets

Home screens in Android 4.0 are designed to be content-rich and customizable.Users can do much more than add shortcuts — they can embed liveapplication content directly through interactive widgets.Widgets let users check email, flip through a calendar, play music, check socialstreams, and more — right from the home screen, without having to launchapps. Widgets are resizable, so users can expand them to show more content orshrink them to save space.

New lock screenactions

The lock screens now let users do more without unlocking. From the slide lockscreen, users can jump directly to the camera for a picture orpull down the notifications window to check for messages. Whenlistening to music, users can even manage music tracks and see album art.

Quick responses forincoming calls

When an incoming call arrives, users can now quickly respond by textmessage, without needing to pick up the call or unlock the device. Onthe incoming call screen, users simply slide a control to see a list of textresponses and then tap to send and end the call. Users can add their ownresponses and manage the list from the Settings app.

Swipe to dismissnotifications, tasks, and browser tabs

Android 4.0 makes managing notifications, recent apps, and browser tabs eveneasier. Users can now dismiss individual notifications, apps from the RecentApps list, and browser tabs with a simple swipe of a finger.

Improved text input andspell-checking

The soft keyboard in Android 4.0 makes text input even faster and moreaccurate. Error correction and word suggestion are improved through a new set ofdefault dictionaries and more accurate heuristics for handling cases such asdouble-typed characters, skipped letters, and omitted spaces. Word suggestionis also improved and the suggestion strip is simplified to show only threewords at a time.

To fix misspelled words more easily, Android 4.0 adds aspell-checker that locates and underlines errors and suggestsreplacement words. With one tap, users can choose from multiple spellingsuggestions, delete a word, or add it to the dictionary. Users can even tap tosee replacement suggestions for words that are spelled correctly. Forspecialized features or additional languages, users can now download and installthird-party dictionaries, spell-checkers, and other text services.

Powerful voice inputengine

Android 4.0 introduces a powerful new voice input engine that offers acontinuous 'open microphone' experience and streaming voice recognition. The newvoice input engine lets users dictate the text they want, for as long as theywant, using the language they want. Users can speak continously for a prolongedtime, even pausing for intervals if needed, and dictate punctuation to createcorrect sentences. As the voice input engine enters text, it underlines possibledictation errors in gray. After dictating, users can tap the underlined words toquickly replace them from a list of suggestions.

Control over networkdata

Mobile devices can make extensive use of network data for streaming content,synchronizing data, downloading apps, and more. To meet the needs of users withtiered or metered data plans, Android 4.0 adds new controls formanaging network data usage.

In the Settings app, colorful charts show the total data usage on eachnetwork type (mobile or Wi-Fi), as well as amount of data used by each runningapplication. Based on their data plans, users can optionally set warning levelsor hard limits on data usage or disable mobile data altogether. Users can alsomanage the background data used by individual applications as needed.

Designed foraccessibility

A variety of new features greatly enhance the accessibility of Android 4.0for blind or visually impaired users. Most important is a newexplore-by-touch mode that lets users navigate without havingto see the screen. Touching the screen once triggers audible feedback thatidentifies the UI component below; a second touch in the same componentactivates it with a full touch event. The new mode is especially important tosupport users on new devices that use virtual buttons in the System Bar, ratherthan dedicated hardware buttons or trackballs. Also, standard apps are updatedto offer an improved accessibility experience. The Browsersupports a script-based screen reader for reading favorite web content andnavigating sites. For improved readability, users can also increase the defaultfont size used across the system.

The accessibility experience begins at first setup — a simpletouch gesture during setup (clockwise square from upper left)activates all accessibility features and loads a setup tutorial. Onceaccessibility features are active, everything visible on the screen can bespoken aloud by the standard screen reader.

Communication and sharing

Designed for the way people live, Android 4.0 integrates rich socialcommunication and sharing touchpoints across the system, making it easy to talk,email, text, and share.

People andprofiles

Throughout the system, a user’s social groups, profiles, and contacts arelinked together and integrated for easy accessibility. At the center is a newPeople app that offers richer profile information, including alarge profile picture, phone numbers, addresses and accounts, status updates,events, stream items, and a new button for connecting on integrated social networks.

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The user's own contact information is stored in a new 'Me'profile, allowing easier sharing with apps and people. All of theuser's integrated contacts are displayed in an easy to manage list, includingcontrols over which contacts are shown from any integrated account or socialnetwork. Wherever the user navigates across the system, tapping a profile photodisplays Quick Contacts, with large profile pictures, shortcuts to phone numbers,text messaging, and more.

Unified calendar, visualvoicemail

To help organize appointments and events, an updated Calendarapp brings together personal, work, school, and social agendas. Withuser permission, other applications can contribute events to the calendar andmanage reminders, for an integrated view across multiple calendar providers. Theapp is redesigned to let users manage events more easily. Calendars arecolor-coded and users can swipe left or right to change datesand pinch to zoom in or out agendas.

In the phone app, a new visual voicemail features integratesincoming messages, voice transcriptions, and audio files from one or moreproviders. Third-party applications can integrate with the Phone app to addtheir own voice messages, transcriptions, and more to the visual voicemailinbox.

Rich and versatile cameracapabilities

The Camera app includes many new features that let users capture special momentswith great photos and videos. After capturing images, they can edit and sharethem easily with friends.

When taking pictures, continuous focus, zero shutterlag exposure, and decreased shot-to-shot speed help capture clear,precise images. Stabilized image zoom lets users compose photosand video in the way they want, including while video is recording. For newflexibility and convenience while shooting video, users can now takesnapshots at full video resolution just by tapping the screenas video continues to record.

To make it easier to take great pictures of people, built-in facedetection locates faces in the frame and automatically sets focus. Formore control, users can tap to focus anywhere in the previewimage.

For capturing larger scenes, the Camera introduces a single-motionpanorama mode. In this mode, the user starts an exposure and thenslowly turns the Camera to encompass as wide a perspective as needed. The Cameraassembles the full range of continuous imagery into a single panoramicphoto.

After taking a picture or video, users can quickly share it by email, textmessage, bluetooth, social networks, and more, just by tapping the thumbnail inthe camera controls.

Redesigned Gallery appwith photo editor

The Gallery app now makes it easier to manage, show, and share photos andvideos. For managing collections, a redesigned album layoutshows many more albums and offers larger thumbnails. There are many ways to sortalbums, including by time, location, people, and tags. To help pictures looktheir best, the Gallery now includes a powerful photo editor.Users can crop and rotate pictures, set levels, remove red eyes, add effects,and much more. After retouching, users can select one or multiple pictures orvideos to share instantly over email, text messaging, bluetooth, socialnetworks, or other apps.

An improved Picture Gallery widget lets users look atpictures directly on their home screen. The widget can display pictures from aselected album, shuffle pictures from all albums, or show a single image. Afteradding the widget to the home screen, users can flick through the photo stacksto locate the image they want, then tap to load it in Gallery.

Live Effects for transformingvideo

Live Effects is a collection of graphical transformations that add interestand fun to videos captured in the Camera app. For example, users canchange the background behind them to any stock or custom image,for just the right setting when shooting video. Also available for video isSilly Faces, a set of morphing effects that use state-of-the-art facerecognition and GPU filters to transform facial features. For example, you canuse effects such as small eyes, big mouth, big nose, face squeeze, and more.Outside of the Camera app, Live Effects is available during video chat in theGoogle Talk app.

Sharing with screenshots

Users can now share what's on their screens more easily by takingscreenshots. Hardware buttons let them snap a screenshot andstore it locally. Afterward, they can view, edit, and share the screen shot inGallery or a similar app.

Cloud-connected experience

Android has always been cloud-connected, letting users browse the web andsync photos, apps, games, email, and contacts — wherever they are andacross all of their devices. Android 4.0 adds new browsing and emailcapabilities to let users take even more with them and keep communicationorganized.

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Improvedemail

In Android 4.0, email is easier to send, read, and manage. For composingemail, improved auto-completion of recipients helps withfinding and adding frequent contacts more quickly. For easier input of frequenttext, users can now create quick responses and store them inthe app, then enter them from a convenient menu when composing. When replying toa message, users can now toggle the message to Reply All and Forward withoutchanging screens.

For easier browsing across accounts and labels, the app adds anintegrated menu of accounts and recent labels. To help userslocate and organize IMAP and Exchange email, the Email app now supportsnested mail subfolders, each with synchronization rules. Userscan also search across folders on the server, for faster results.

For enterprises, the Email app supports EAS v14. It supportsEAS certificate authentication, provides ABQ strings for device type and mode,and allows automatic sync to be disabled while roaming. Administrators can alsolimit attachment size or disable attachments.

For keeping track of incoming email more easily, a resizable Emailwidget lets users flick through recent email right from the homescreen, then jump into the Email app to compose or reply.

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Android is continously driving innovation forward, pushing the boundaries ofcommunication and sharing with new capabilities and interactions.

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For sharing apps, Android Beam pushes a link to the app's details page inGoogle Play. On the other device, the Google Play client app launches and loads thedetails page, for easy downloading of the app. Individual apps can build onAndroid Beam to add other types of interactions, such as passing game scores,initiating a multiplayer game or chat, and more.

Face Unlock

Android 4.0 introduces a completely new approach to securing a device, makingeach person's device even more personal — Face Unlock is a new screen-lockoption that lets users unlock their devices with their faces. It takes advantageof the device front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognitiontechnology to register a face during setup and then to recognize it again whenunlocking the device. Users just hold their devices in front of their faces tounlock, or use a backup PIN or pattern.

Wi-Fi P2P and Bluetooth HDP

Support for Wi-Fi peer-to-peer (P2P) lets users connect directly to nearby peerdevices over Wi-Fi, for more reliable, higher-speed communication (in compliance with the Wi-FiAlliance's Wi-Fi Direct™certification program). No internet connection or tethering is needed. Through third-party apps,users can connect to compatible devices to take advantage of new features such as instant sharingof files, photos, or other media; streaming video or audio from another device; or connecting tocompatible printers or other devices.

Android 4.0 also introduces built-in support for connecting to Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) devices. With support from third-party apps, users can connect to wireless medical devices and sensors in hospitals, fitness centers, homes, and elsewhere.

New Developer Features

Unified UI framework for phones, tablets, and more

Android 4.0 brings a unified UI framework that lets developers createelegant, innovative apps for phones, tablets, and more. It includes all of thefamiliar Android 3.x interface elements and APIs — fragments, contentloaders, Action Bar, rich notifications, resizable home screen widgets, and more— as well as new elements and APIs.

For developers, the unified UI framework in Android 4.0 means new UI tools,consistent design practices, simplified code and resources, and streamlineddevelopment across the range of Android-powered devices.

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Core UI

• Fragments and content loaders
• Resizeable home screen widgets
• Rich notifications
• Multi-selection, drag-drop, clipboard
• Improved screen-support API
• Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics

Graphics and animation

• Property-based animation
• Renderscript 3D graphics

Media and connectivity

• HTTP Live streaming
• Bluetooth A2DP and HSP devices
• Support for RTP
• MTP/PTP file transfer
• DRM framework
• Input from keyboard, mouse, gamepad, joystick

Enterprise

• Full device encryption
• DPM policies for encrypted storage and passwords

Communication and sharing

Android 4.0 extends social and sharing features to any application on thedevice. Applications can integrate contacts, profile data, stream items,and calendar events from any of the user’s activities or social networks.

Social API

A shared social provider and API provide a new unified store for contacts,profile data, stream items, and photos. Any app or social network with userpermission can contribute raw contacts and make them accessible to other appsand networks. Applications with user permission can also read profile data fromthe provider and display it in their applications.

The social API lets applications store standard contact data as well as newtypes of content for any given contact, including large profile photos, streamitems, and recent activity feedback. Recent activity feedback is a standard way forapplications to “tag” a contact with common activity, such as when the usercalls the contact or sends an email or SMS message. The social provider uses therecent activity feedback as a new signal in ranking, such as for nameauto-complete, to keep the most relevant contacts ranked closest to the top.

Applications can also let users set up a social connection to a contact fromthe People app. When the user touches Add Connection in a contact, the appsends a public intent that other apps can handle, displaying any UI neededto create the social connection.

Building on the social API, developers can add powerful new interactions thatspan multiple social networks and contacts sources.

Calendar API

A shared calendar content provider and framework API make it easier fordevelopers to add calendar services to their apps.

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For lighter-weight access to calendar services, the Calendar app defines aset of public Intents for creating, viewing, and editing events. Rather thanneeding to implement a calendar UI and integrate directly with the calendarprovider, applications can simply broadcast calendar Intents. When the Calendarapp receives the Intents, it launches the appropriate UI and stores any eventdata entered. Using calendar Intents, for example, apps can let users add eventsdirectly from lists, dialogs, or home screen widgets, such as for makingrestaurant reservations or booking time with friends.

Visual voicemailAPI

A shared Voicemail provider and API allow developers to build applicationsthat contribute to a unified voicemail store. Voicemails are displayed andplayed in the call log tab of the platform’s Phone app.

Android Beam

Android Beam is an NFC-based feature that lets users instantly shareinformation about the apps they are using, just by touching two NFC-enabledphones together. When the devices are in range — within a few centimeters— the system sets up an NFC connection and displays a sharing UI. To sharewhatever they are viewing with the other device, users just touch the screen.

For developers, Android Beam is a new way of triggering almost any type ofproximity-based interaction. For example, it can let users instantly exchangecontacts, set up multiplayer gaming, join a chat or video call, share a photo orvideo, and more. The system provides the low-level NFC support and the sharingUI, while the foreground app provides lightweight data to transfer to the otherdevice. Developers have complete control over the data that is shared and how itis handled, so almost any interaction is possible. For larger payloads,developers can even use Android Beam to initiate a connection and transfer thedata over Bluetooth, without the need for user-visible pairing.

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Modular sharingwidget

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New types of connectivity

Wi-Fi P2P

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New UI components and capabilities

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OpenGL ES textureviews

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Hardware-accelerated 2Ddrawing

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New input types and text services

Stylus input, buttonsupport, hover events

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Text services API forintegrating spelling checkers

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Enhanced accessibility APIs

Android 4.0 adds new accessibility features and an enhanced API to letdevelopers improve the user experience in their apps, especially on devices thatdon’t have hardware buttons. For accessibility services such as screen readersin particular, the platform offers new APIs to query window content, for easiernavigation, better feedback, and richer user interfaces.

AccessibilityAPI

To let applications manage interactions more effectively when accessibilityfeatures are enabled, the platform adds accessibility events forexplore-by-touch mode, scrolling, and text selection. For these and otherevents, the platform can attach a new object called an accessibility record thatprovides extra information about the event context.

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Text-to-speechAPI

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Amazon released the Kindle Fire and had record sales of the device over the holiday season 2011 and now you can get Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich on the device. One of the more popular ROM’s MIUI has been ported over to the Kindle Fire allowing the upgrade to ICS.

Almost everything works on the port to Ice Cream Sandwich but there is a small list of things that don’t currently work. The current features that aren’t working include tethering via USB, hardware accelerated graphics static wallpaper and themes. This being said everything that a daily user needs works just fine on the Android 4.0.3 MIUI ROM for the Fire.

How to Install Ice Cream Sandwich on the Kindle Fire:

1. Install ClockworkMod Recovery via ROM Manager (Free on Market)
2. Download MIUI to your Kindle Fire’s SDcard (Download Link)
3. Make sure your Kindle Fire is disconnected form PC
4. Open ROM Manager and tap “reboot into recovery”
5. Select the “factory reset” option and confirm on next screen
6. Go back to the main screen of recovery
7. Select install zip from SDcard option
8. Select the MIUI ROM zip file you downloaded earlier and confirm
9. Once complete select “wipe cache” then select “reboot device”
10. Be patient as the first boot will take a little time.
11. Congrats your Kindle Fire is running Android 4.0.3 ICS!

If you have any issues or need anything explained in more detail please feel free to leave a comment below. We have tested this on the device and love the ROM. We will try to get a video of the installation up soon although did not record the previous process as it was on a users device that we don’t own.