KitKat - name of Chocolate Bar from Nestle?
Also the latest version of Android OS V4.4 from Google.
While everyone were expecting "Key Lime Pie" as the title for next release, It was a nice Strategy from Google to consider the name, its kind of win-win for both. Nestle gets popularity as well as Google. There was even a contest with KitKat chocolates wrapped up in special wrappers with Android Logo in it. There was promo-code and you could text it to a number and you had chance to win exciting gifts from Google like Playstore credits or Nexus devices.
The first mobile to come with kitkat is Nexus 5,
To know about the detailed set of features, please refer here.
Now lets get into the picture. I downloaded Kitkat apis for my android sdk and was trying to start an emulator running kitkat. Tried with all the alternatives changing the display settings, turning on/off use host gpu feature for emulator. Nothing worked, only black screen, not even android logo appeared. There were also buzzes in web, that for Mac, intel image is yet to be released and that default ARM image takes long time to load. I waited atleast 30 mins, even an hour, but in vain.
With advice from one of my colleague, since my mac was also having 4GB Ram, I increased the Ram size of the emulator to 2048MB, after which, all of a surprise android logo appeared and emulator got started.
PFB the settings which worked for me in my Mac,
Also the latest version of Android OS V4.4 from Google.
While everyone were expecting "Key Lime Pie" as the title for next release, It was a nice Strategy from Google to consider the name, its kind of win-win for both. Nestle gets popularity as well as Google. There was even a contest with KitKat chocolates wrapped up in special wrappers with Android Logo in it. There was promo-code and you could text it to a number and you had chance to win exciting gifts from Google like Playstore credits or Nexus devices.
The first mobile to come with kitkat is Nexus 5,
To know about the detailed set of features, please refer here.
Now lets get into the picture. I downloaded Kitkat apis for my android sdk and was trying to start an emulator running kitkat. Tried with all the alternatives changing the display settings, turning on/off use host gpu feature for emulator. Nothing worked, only black screen, not even android logo appeared. There were also buzzes in web, that for Mac, intel image is yet to be released and that default ARM image takes long time to load. I waited atleast 30 mins, even an hour, but in vain.
With advice from one of my colleague, since my mac was also having 4GB Ram, I increased the Ram size of the emulator to 2048MB, after which, all of a surprise android logo appeared and emulator got started.
PFB the settings which worked for me in my Mac,
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