The first screenshots of what is supposedly the next version of Android will be, online appeared. The images show a new feature in the notification bar and a redesign of Googles own browser Chrome
The screenshots don’t show a gradient more in the status bar, and the bar with the onscreen buttons. In addition, there is an L-shaped icon to see that would refer to usb-debugging and an icon of a bell, which according to Android Police the running of a new feature shows. That new feature would be the “floating notification” are a part of the screen takes over and the call would indicate that floating notifications are suppressed.
Chrome shows a slightly modified design, with three round dots instead of squares for the button on the right side. The login screen is also flatter and easier. Google announces the new Android version probably this year still. This week will be the search giant its developer conference itself I/O, but Google presents, there is not always a new Android version. The most recent version of Android, currently 4.4.4.
The screenshots were on the issue tracker of Chromium, the open-source version of Chrome, but the page has since been taken offline, which indicates that the images are indeed elements show that Google doesn’t want them to come out. Reddit user Doopl posted the screenshots before Google they offline could get. The screenshots have a resolution of 1280×768 pixels and are therefore most likely made on a Nexus 4. Nevertheless, it is uncertain whether the Nexus 4 update will get: Google supports its Nexus devices up to now, eighteen months after the release and the Nexus 4 came twenty months ago.
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