Introduction
Thank you for purchasing SONEX template. This documentation will give you an overview of the template and help you to know how to customize template to your requirements.
What's Included
Once you have download template you will see the following structure:
- dist
- css
- animsition.min.css
- bootstrap.min.css
- fontello.min.css
- magnific-popup.min.css
- style.css
- fonts
- fontello.eot
- fontello
- fontello
- fontello.woff
- fontello.woff2
- img
- favicon.png
- logo.png
- map-marker.png
- js
- plugins
- animsition.min.js
- bootstrap.min.js
- imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js
- isotope.pkgd.min.js
- jquery.magnific-popup.min.js
- jquery-2.2.4.min.js
- functions.js
- plugins.min.js
- plugins
- css
- php
- mail.php
- about.html
- Blog.html
- Blog-alt.html
- Blog-single.html
- contact.html
- index.html
- index-columns-2.html
- index-columns-4.html
- project-page.html
- project-page-alt.html
- img
- favicon.png
- logo.png
- map-marker.png
- js
- 01. jquery-2.2.4.min.js
- 02. bootstrap.min.js
- 03. imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js
- 04. isotope.pkgd.min.js
- 05. jquery.magnific-popup.min.js
- 06. animsition.min.js
- pug
- layout
- widgets
- Blog-categories.pug
- recent-projects.pug
- search.pug
- tags.pug
- twitter.pug
- works-filter.pug
- copyright.pug
- head.pug
- js.pug
- navigation.pug
- widgets
- about.pug
- Blog.pug
- Blog-alt.pug
- Blog-single.pug
- contact.pug
- index.pug
- index-columns-2.pug
- index-columns-4.pug
- project-page.pug
- project-page-alt.pug
- layout
- styl
- style.styl
As you can see template has 2 types of files: precompiled and source codes. Precompiled files located in dist directory. You can use this files for customizing template, but much better way it's to use source codes files if you have skills. In this template I used such technologies:
- HTML. Pug (aka Jade) template engine. See more on jade-lang.com.
- CSS. Stylus stylesheet language. See more on stylus-lang.com.
- Images. TinyPNG image compressor. See more on tinypng.com.
- Gulp task manager to automate workflow. See more on gulpjs.com.
Requirements
Text Editor
To modify SONEX you should have a text editor. You can use any editor, but I recommend Sublime Text.
FTP Client
To publish your website you will need transfer files to remote server of your hosting. It's very important to understand that you must either have your own server space or use someone else's. The server space can be purchased at many different places
around the Internet. You need somewhere to put the files that you purchased so others can find them online.
To transfer your files to server you can use different FTP clients (e.g. FileZilla). How to upload files to server with FileZilla you can read here. You should upload the contents of an archive to root directory.
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!


Data Visualization Colours
Column Chart Example
For charts we're using a combination of all four palettes. The priority of the colours is shown in the sample chart below, starting with the secondary palette and then expands with the blue brand colour and the primary palette. If needed, we then add on colours from the tertiary palette.
Donut Chart Example
Depending on what kind of data visualization tool you're using and what kind of background you want to embed it in, you might need to combine colours from all Scania palettes.
Area Spline Chart Example
Depending on what kind of data visualization tool you're using and what kind of background you want to embed it in, you might need to combine colours from all Scania palettes.


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Idaho Statesman | Submitted by: AntiGuru
"A team of volunteers will spend the weekend trying to save more than 500 dogs [Yes that is FIVE HUNDRED DOGS, perhaps a new record] rescued Thursday from what authorities described as 'deplorable' conditions at an eastern Oregon home... she couldnīt sleep knowing there were dogs suffering at the shelter. As she sat alone in the shelter Thursday night, she said, she held one dog in her arms and watched it die. 'Thatīs when I lost it', Schuldt said." Why did you pick that one, lady?
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"David Tang started teaching a series of classes called The Gospel According to the Simpsons, something that is sort of half about The Simpsons approach to religion, and half about the approach taken to God by everyone else." Say this aloud in Rev. Lovejoy's voice: "We have a church that we like to think is relatively 'with it', I think most people are willing to try something different."
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"Scientists in New Zealand are reporting that they have created such cows, animals that produce milk with higher than normal levels of protein, which would speed the process of making cheese... "It could be a very cool thing, especially if you like pizza," said Robert J. Wall, an expert on genetically engineered cattle at the Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Md."
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A supermarket employee drowned after he accidentally drove his car into a river while talking on his mobile phone, police said Monday... More than 12 hours later, they found Yabuno, 27, dead inside his car at the bottom of a 2 meter deep section of the river Monday morning."
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"A gunman shot and killed one of China's richest businessmen in his office on Wednesday, feeding a growing superstition among the nation's business elite that appearing on the Forbes Magazine list of China's 100 richest people may be a kiss of death... "We found two dead bodies in Li's office," said a police officer who confirmed the shooting. "One was Li; the other was the suspect."
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Preparation time
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Cooking time
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Serves
Serves 4-6
Meatballs in a rich tomato sauce served with pasta. Good enough for MasterChef, but still simple and cheap to make - what's not to love?
Heat the olive oil a heavy-based casserole or large saucepan set over a low heat. Add the onion and season generously with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Increase the heat to medium and add the bacon. Cook until the onions are soft and translucent (do not colour).
Add the breadcrumbs and a generous handful of herbs to the pan. Stir and then remove half of the mixture and set aside in a bowl to use in the sauce later. Transfer the remaining mixture to a blender.
Add the minced beef and pork to the mixture and pulse to form a paste. Stir in the egg yolk to combine.
Put the meatballs in the casserole and fry until brown all over (this can take up to 10 minutes). Remove from the pan and set aside.
Add the reserved onion and bacon mixture to the pan. Deglaze by adding the red wine and scraping all the bits off the bottom of the pan. When the wine is boiling, add the chopped fresh tomatoes, keeping the heat high. Continue to cook, stirring all the time until they start to break down.  Bring back to the boil.
Taste to check the seasoning and cook for a further five minutes. Return the meatballs to the pan and bring to the boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to packet instructions.
To serve, mix the meatballs and pasta together with grated cheese, or keep separate if you prefer.


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It's a sad fact that Hollywood saves its worst films to put out in the first two months of each calendar year. Most of these stinkers get yanked from theaters so quickly that you may forget that they ever existed, unless you had the misfortune of paying to see one. For some reason, I seem to remember more of these early-season science-fiction bombs than anything else. If it has to do with space, and it comes out in January or February, then run. In the last two years, we've had Phantoms, Wing Commander, Supernova and Firestorm (there's `space' between Howie Long's ears, so it counts) – a crop that represents the worst film has to offer.
Pitch Black certainly didn't seem like it would be an exception to the general rule. The pedigree is less than stellar - David N. Twohy (The Arrival) directing from a script that he wrote with brothers Jim and Ken Wheat (you may remember them from such sequels as The Fly 2, The Birds 2 and Nightmare on Elm Street 4). There are no A-list stars. There aren't really any B-list stars, either. In fact, the C-list might even be out of reach. The story isn't anything special, either.
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| org.threeten.bp |
The main API for dates, times, instants, and durations.
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| org.threeten.bp.chrono |
Support for calendar systems other than the default ISO.
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| org.threeten.bp.format |
Provides classes to print and parse dates and times.
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| org.threeten.bp.temporal |
Access to date and time using fields and units.
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| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
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class |
ZoneOffset
A time-zone offset from Greenwich/UTC, such as
+02:00 . |
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
static TemporalQuery<ZoneId> |
ZoneId.FROM
Simulate JDK 8 method reference ZoneId::from.
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| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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static ZoneId |
ZoneId.from(TemporalAccessor temporal)
Obtains an instance of
ZoneId from a temporal object. |
ZoneId |
ZonedDateTime.getZone()
Gets the time-zone, such as 'Europe/Paris'.
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abstract ZoneId |
Clock.getZone()
Gets the time-zone being used to create dates and times.
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ZoneId |
ZoneId.normalized()
Normalizes the time-zone ID, returning a
ZoneOffset where possible. |
static ZoneId |
ZoneId.of(String zoneId)
Obtains an instance of
ZoneId from an ID ensuring that the
ID is valid and available for use. |
static ZoneId |
ZoneId.of(String zoneId,
Map<String,String> aliasMap)
Obtains an instance of
ZoneId using its ID using a map
of aliases to supplement the standard zone IDs. |
static ZoneId |
ZoneId.ofOffset(String prefix,
ZoneOffset offset)
Obtains an instance of
ZoneId wrapping an offset. |
static ZoneId |
ZoneId.systemDefault()
Gets the system default time-zone.
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static ZoneId |
DateTimeUtils.toZoneId(TimeZone timeZone)
Converts a
TimeZone to a ZoneId . |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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ZonedDateTime |
LocalDate.atStartOfDay(ZoneId zone)
Combines this date with a time-zone to create a
ZonedDateTime
at the start of the day |
ZonedDateTime |
LocalDateTime.atZone(ZoneId zone)
Combines this date-time with a time-zone to create a
ZonedDateTime . |
ZonedDateTime |
Instant.atZone(ZoneId zone)
Combines this instant with a time-zone to create a
ZonedDateTime . |
ZonedDateTime |
OffsetDateTime.atZoneSameInstant(ZoneId zone)
Combines this date-time with a time-zone to create a
ZonedDateTime
ensuring that the result has the same instant. |
ZonedDateTime |
OffsetDateTime.atZoneSimilarLocal(ZoneId zone)
Combines this date-time with a time-zone to create a
ZonedDateTime
trying to keep the same local date and time. |
static Clock |
Clock.fixed(Instant fixedInstant,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains a clock that always returns the same instant.
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static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current date-time from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static YearMonth |
YearMonth.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current year-month from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static Year |
Year.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current year from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static OffsetTime |
OffsetTime.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current time from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static OffsetDateTime |
OffsetDateTime.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current date-time from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static MonthDay |
MonthDay.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current month-day from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static LocalTime |
LocalTime.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current time from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static LocalDateTime |
LocalDateTime.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current date-time from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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static LocalDate |
LocalDate.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current date from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
|
static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.of(int year,
int month,
int dayOfMonth,
int hour,
int minute,
int second,
int nanoOfSecond,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
ZonedDateTime from a year, month, day,
hour, minute, second, nanosecond and time-zone. |
static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.of(LocalDate date,
LocalTime time,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
ZonedDateTime from a local date and time. |
static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.of(LocalDateTime localDateTime,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
ZonedDateTime from a local date-time. |
static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(Instant instant,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
ZonedDateTime from an Instant . |
static OffsetTime |
OffsetTime.ofInstant(Instant instant,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
OffsetTime from an Instant and zone ID. |
static OffsetDateTime |
OffsetDateTime.ofInstant(Instant instant,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
OffsetDateTime from an Instant and zone ID. |
static LocalDateTime |
LocalDateTime.ofInstant(Instant instant,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
LocalDateTime from an Instant and zone ID. |
static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(LocalDateTime localDateTime,
ZoneOffset offset,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
ZonedDateTime from the instant formed by combining
the local date-time and offset. |
static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.ofLocal(LocalDateTime localDateTime,
ZoneId zone,
ZoneOffset preferredOffset)
Obtains an instance of
ZonedDateTime from a local date-time
using the preferred offset if possible. |
static ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.ofStrict(LocalDateTime localDateTime,
ZoneOffset offset,
ZoneId zone)
Obtains an instance of
ZonedDateTime strictly validating the
combination of local date-time, offset and zone ID. |
static Clock |
Clock.system(ZoneId zone)
Obtains a clock that returns the current instant using best available
system clock.
|
static Clock |
Clock.tickMinutes(ZoneId zone)
Obtains a clock that returns the current instant ticking in whole minutes
using best available system clock.
|
static Clock |
Clock.tickSeconds(ZoneId zone)
Obtains a clock that returns the current instant ticking in whole seconds
using best available system clock.
|
static TimeZone |
DateTimeUtils.toTimeZone(ZoneId zoneId)
Converts a
ZoneId to a TimeZone . |
abstract Clock |
Clock.withZone(ZoneId zone)
Returns a copy of this clock with a different time-zone.
|
ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId zone)
Returns a copy of this date-time with a different time-zone,
retaining the instant.
|
ZonedDateTime |
ZonedDateTime.withZoneSameLocal(ZoneId zone)
Returns a copy of this date-time with a different time-zone,
retaining the local date-time if possible.
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| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
abstract ZoneId |
ChronoZonedDateTime.getZone()
Gets the zone ID, such as 'Europe/Paris'.
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| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
abstract ChronoZonedDateTime<D> |
ChronoLocalDateTime.atZone(ZoneId zone)
Combines this time with a time-zone to create a
ChronoZonedDateTime . |
ThaiBuddhistDate |
ThaiBuddhistChronology.dateNow(ZoneId zone) |
MinguoDate |
MinguoChronology.dateNow(ZoneId zone) |
JapaneseDate |
JapaneseChronology.dateNow(ZoneId zone) |
LocalDate |
IsoChronology.dateNow(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current ISO local date from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
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HijrahDate |
HijrahChronology.dateNow(ZoneId zone) |
ChronoLocalDate |
Chronology.dateNow(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current local date in this chronology from the system clock in the specified time-zone.
|
static ThaiBuddhistDate |
ThaiBuddhistDate.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current
ThaiBuddhistDate from the system clock in the specified time-zone. |
static MinguoDate |
MinguoDate.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current
MinguoDate from the system clock in the specified time-zone. |
static JapaneseDate |
JapaneseDate.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current
JapaneseDate from the system clock in the specified time-zone. |
static HijrahDate |
HijrahDate.now(ZoneId zone)
Obtains the current
HijrahDate of the Islamic Umm Al-Qura calendar
in the specified time-zone. |
abstract ChronoZonedDateTime<D> |
ChronoZonedDateTime.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId zoneId)
Returns a copy of this date-time with a different time-zone,
retaining the instant.
|
abstract ChronoZonedDateTime<D> |
ChronoZonedDateTime.withZoneSameLocal(ZoneId zoneId)
Returns a copy of this ZonedDateTime with a different time-zone,
retaining the local date-time if possible.
|
ChronoZonedDateTime<ThaiBuddhistDate> |
ThaiBuddhistChronology.zonedDateTime(Instant instant,
ZoneId zone) |
ChronoZonedDateTime<MinguoDate> |
MinguoChronology.zonedDateTime(Instant instant,
ZoneId zone) |
ChronoZonedDateTime<JapaneseDate> |
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Alice 2
In 1995, we (Brad and Lawrence) were living in Sunnyvale, about forty-five minutes south of San Francisco, California.
The Alice 2 was the obvious next step after the Alice 1. We decided to work on it together as a fun educational project. The Alice 1 was a single-board computer with everything hardwired into it. The Alice 2 was designed to be extensible, with a bus and plug-in cards. For simplicity we kept the Z-80 as the CPU, but that's about the only resemblance to the Alice 1.
We used a rack-mounted modem frame that we found at Weird Stuff. It came with its own power supply, but it didn't provide the voltages we needed, so Lawrence made his own, which didn't work. We ended up using a PC power supply, which gave us the right voltages and enough power. The nice thing about ours, though, was the amp-meter, which told us when we had a short circuit in our system.
We used a simple system bus that basically exported all the important pins of the Z-80. Two 25-wire ribbon cables were used for the bus, each with DB-25s attached at regular intervals to plug the boards into. Everything was attached to the back of the frame so that our cards could slide in and connect to the plugs.
We then set ourselves on making the plug-in boards. We decided to first prototype the boards on breadboards, using long 25-pin cables to attach to the bus. We would then make the printed-circuit (PC) boards. We later found that we spent more time manufacturing the PC boards than designing or prototyping them, and in retrospect we should have found another method, such as wire-wrapping.
The first board was the clock board. It was responsible for toggling the clock pin of the bus. There were several switches that allowed the user to set the clock board in one of three states: single-step, variable, and full-speed. The "variable" mode used a knob to go from stopped to 1 KHz, and the full-speed mode went at 1 MHz.
The best advice to anyone designing either hardware or software is to spend time on debugging tools—they are always worth their development effort. So we next built the debug board, which displayed the state of the bus. Six 7-segment displays showed the address and data bytes, and ten LEDs showed various pins of interest. We could not have built the next two boards without this one.
We were torn between building a memory board next or a CPU board. It's a chicken-and-egg problem since they both need each other in order to be tested. We finally built both on breadboards, then built the memory board, followed by the CPU board.
The memory board has 16K of EPROM and 48K of RAM (since the Z-80 can only access 64K). There's a switch on the board to turn 16K of the RAM into memory-mapped I/O. We used this later for the bit-mapped display.
The CPU board has a Z-80 CPU, an 8259 interrupt controller, and some glue chips. We made a big mistake when making this board. We got overconfident with the success of our previous boards, and didn't bother to prototype the 8259 part of the board. We had never used this chip, and it took us over a year to figure out why it wasn't working and to patch the board. We even ended up making the board twice because our first version was so badly botched.
We wanted some input and output, so next came the I/O board. The input of choice was a standard PC keyboard, and the output, for simplicity, was a 2-line LCD display. We wanted serial I/O as well to download code from our PC (burning EPROMs was becoming tedious). We used a PIC chip to interface to all three. Using the PIC was a good idea in the end, but added a level of complication that we hadn't expected. Our computer was essentially a multi-CPU machine! Ironically, the I/O co-processor ran at 20 times the speed of the main CPU.
Our final board was the video board—we wanted to display images on a monitor. It took us a long time to decide on the design. At one point it seemed easier to use yet another PIC chip that would take drawing requests from the CPU. Finally we settled on a simpler memory-mapped I/O scheme, with the CPU writing to memory and a counter reading from it. We used an EPROM to map out the horizontal and vertical sync signals. Although the board worked very well on the breadboard, it stopped working altogether when made into a PC board. After many months of frustrations with analog electronics, we finally added enough capacitors to make it work.
Not a lot of software was written. We wrote the basic ROM functions needed to write to the LCD display and read from the keyboard; the PIC code to interface with the peripherals and the CPU; and a simple C compiler. We even started on a multi-tasking operating system (the PIC board interrupts the CPU 10 times a second). In the end we didn't write any more software because every time we turned the machine on we had to spend two hours finding out why it had stopped working (usually a bad solder connection).
The whole Alice 2 project took about 4 years, with large breaks throughout. We're not sure how much we spent on it, but it's probably on the order of a thousand dollars. We did half of it in Brad's apartment in Sunnyvale and half in his garage in Mountain View on Wednesday nights. We learned a lot and had a great time, but are glad to go back to software, where weenies like us belong.
You may find other interesting Z80 projects at www.z80.info.


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In the past 3 months, there has been 6,354 consultations done.
This is a total cost of P953,100.00.
The Doctors' Consultation Funds currently have P1,670,841.00.
We can continue to give free consultation for 5 months and 8 days.
Every hour of staff work costs P40.00.
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We can continue to operate for 1 months and 28 days.
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RETURN TO ME
Reviewed by Harvey Karten MGM Director: Bonnie Hunt Writer: Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake Cast: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Loggia, Bonnie Hunt, David Alan Grier, Joely Richardson, James Belushi, Peter B. Spector, Holly Wortell
Contrary to the anticipation of some, "Return to Me" is not the sequel to James Whale's 1935 movie "Bride of Frankenstein--which Leonard Maltin praises as a film with "rich veins of dry wit running through the chills." In that film Ernest Thesiger forces Dr. Frankenstein into making a mate for his creation. Bonnie Hunt's new movie does deal (yeah it's a stretch) with a nice-looking regular guy whose dead wife's heart gives new life to a dying patient waiting despondently for a new ticker. That's about where the comparison ends. Remove the heart of the victim of a fatal car accident, place it gently into the chest of an ebbing shut-in, Grace Briggs (Minnie Driver) and voila--a new woman friend for a disconsolate widower, Bob Rueland (David Duchovny). Since the names of heart donors are not made known to the lucky recipients, the odds that Bob and Grace would coincidentally meet are about the same as the chances of being struck by lightning on a clear day But OK, we can overlook the credibility in a romantic comedy. What we cannot disregard is the top-to-bottom banality of the enterprise, a story without edge, a group of elderly characters who are for the most part patronized by director and co-writer Hunt, and an entirely formulaic piece of comedy-melodrama with scarcely a moment of real drama and featuring repartee engaged in by codgers without a genuine dab of wit.
The most basic convention of romantic comedies is that the pair of lovers must be kept apart throughout the story, predictably getting together in the concluding scenes after they find one excuse following another to leave each other's company. In "Return To Me" Bob and Grace do not meet at all until at least one-third of the tale has unfolded, but no matter: their encounter does not speed the pulse of this monotonous action in which even a fatal auto crash takes place off screen to avoid offending the targeted PG crowd.
Bonnie Hunt appears to think that the demographics for this movie are folks who watch five hours of TV daily and can't get enough of the stuff, so she feeds them more of the =
glop hoping to evoke the customary word-of-mouth, "I laughed, I cried, I ate popcorn." "Return to Me" at least substitutes an environmental cause for product placement, opening on a big ape named Sydney who is kept in a zoo home with at least 2/3 less space than he requires. Elizabeth Rueland (Joely Richardson) as the principal caregiver of the animal (who has taught him sign language) delivers a heartfelt address to potential donors at a black-tie affair attended by her husband, Bob, an architect who soon thereafter winds up in a car accident that kills his wife. =
Elizabeth's heart is transplanted into Grace's chest, allowing Grace to emerge from the hospital and resume life with her extended family--two of whose antiquated members own an Italian-Irish restaurant.
The subplot involving an extended card game that engages a circle of friends including Marty O'Reilly (Carroll O'Connor) and Angelo Pardipillo (Robert Loggia) is patronizing. Hunt treats these elderly men as cutesy, harmless individuals whose great joy in life when they are not bowling or shuffling the deck is playing Cupid to Grace--who seems never to have had a date in her life. When the camera is not on Grace and Bob who shyly test the waters of romance with each other, we see increasing scenes from the lives of the codgers and also from the overpopulated household of Megan Dayton (Bonnie Hunt) who is married to the graceless Joy (James Belushi).
Nevertheless, this could be your kind of comedy if you 1) think that a nun riding a bicycle in Rome is amusing, 2) want to watch James Belushi do a bellydance, 3) enjoy a repetitious gag about people comparing themselves to the ape Sydney, 4) like to see a working man's wife's face contort whenever her husband says "hell" or "damn" in front of the kids, 5) consider Grace amusing when she dumps bottled water into the sink of the Irish-Italian restaurant and fills it with tap water to get back at a whining customer, 6) think that David Duchovny should play any role but the one he was born for--Mulder on the X-Files.
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Making pdfs efficiently readable on the web
My experiments with pdf2htmlEX for this site.
Where we are
Scientific papers are distributed as pdfs—Adobe’s “portable document format” intended to decribe exactly how something looks in print. This might be a little silly, given that many articles are never really printed, but it is the de facto standard. And mere fact that we call articles “papers” might indicate that (the abstraction of) physical sheets of paper might remain with us for an indefinite period.
There are innovative attempts (e.g. pubpub) that have taken up the challenge to establish entirely new formats to disseminate knowledge. One goal is to make it easier to generate not-for-print formats.
Also the big publishers make attempts to generate html versions of papers, e.g, here (paywalled, sorry). This works reasonably well, but probably involves some manual tweaking and occasionally yields quite suboptimal results. In the above example, check out Algorithm 3 (ugly rasterized picture) or my manually adapted enumerate-list at the beginning of Section 1.1 (missing space between (G1) and text).
While my points of critique might be minor / overly picky, that paper is actually a simple example. It does, e.g., not use hand-TikZed new math symbols or inline pictures.
Who would use something silly as that?
Well, there are well-known examples.
(In case you don’t recognize by the font which book this page is from, chances are you will not care about my nickpicks above, either.)
Moreover, I do not want to invest manual effort in generating html versions of my preprints.
What I wanted
Let’s face it: we are stuck with pdfs as the main exchange format, and automatic conversions that truely change the layout will always have glitches. Besides, I like the fixed layout and stable pages. So while I have been posting preprint pdfs on my website ever since I have been publishing papers, I have been wondering if there is a better alternative.
What I want is a simple and robust way to render pdfs in the browser. There are different options.
- Plugins: not always available, security flaws …
- Javascript libraries that implement a full pdf viewer: thanks to massive improvements in javascript engines reasonably efficient, but it is clumsy to link into a pdf.
- using some webservice for pdf viewing (e.g scripd): apart from having to entrust your content to and relying on the service of some company, it is unclear whether uploading preprints there would still fall under the author’s website exception. (see, e.g., the policy for Springer LNCS)
- (statically) convert pdf to html: until recently, I thought the result would be unacceptably far from the original pdf, but this has changed!
The solution: pdf2htmlEX
By using embedded fonts and HTML 5 typography features, pdf2htmlEX achieves remarkable results. It statically converts a pdf to html—it is not a viewer; the original pdf is not needed afterwards.
What works out of the box:
- The html pages look almost identical to the original pdf,
- they are searchable,
- links are clickable (both within the pdf and to external pages), and
- we can use plain html anchor links to link to any specific page within the pdf.
Note that pdf2htmlEX is no longer maintained, and there seems to be no simple solution to run it under a current Ubuntu (18.04); however, I got it running in a docker container.
Configuration
The default of pdf2htmlEX is to produce one big html file with all needed resources inlined. This is convenient, but does not work well for documents with more than 20 pages.
However, pdf2htmlEX also allows to split the resulting html into one file per pdf page, which are loaded dynamically via AJAX. That way, even large files like my dissertation are opened in an instant, and missing pages are rendered very fast. (pdf.js might be an edge faster).
The dynamic loading comes at a price though: Searching the text (via the browser) does no longer work! It works fine for the currently rendered part, but of course not for the rest of the document.
pdf2htmlEX has further options on which other parts to embed; I chose to keep everything in extra files that would be shared by several papers. The final call uses the following options:
pdf2htmlEX --data-dir <my-data-dir> --embed-css 0 --embed-javascript 0 --embed-image 1 --fit-width 1000 --split-pages 1 --page-filename paper-%d.page paper.pdf
My additions to the UI
By default, pdf2htmlEX generates a sidebar with the pdf outline. While generally a useful feature, it was annoying that there was no way to hide it when you would rather have the full window width for content.
I therefore hacked a few additional keyboard shortcuts into the javascript file; here is the overall list of available commands:
Keyboard Shortcuts in pdf2htmlEX
| Shortcut | Function | Comment |
|---|---|---|
+ ,= |
zoom in | |
- |
zoom out | |
0 |
reset view | |
o , O |
toggle outline | only in my version |
f , F |
fit to width | only in my version |
p , P |
fit to page height | only in my version |
g , G |
go to page | only in my version |
It really is a hack at this moment, but in case you would like to use it, you can do by the following procedure:
- Copy pdf2htmlEX’s data dir to some convenient location;
under Linux it would by found in
/use/share/pdf2htmlEX
- Replace the shipped pdf2htmlEX.min.js with my version.
- Specify a custom data dir when calling pdf2htmlEX.
Remaining glitches
- Searching within the full document does not work with dynamically rendered pages.
- Searching does not properly work with ligatures. (pdf2htmlEX can remove them, but I would rather not.)
- Small spacing issues with some characters (e.g. square brackets). Might be improved with manual hinting of the fonts.
- UI is still rudimentary


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This group of islands lie immediately north west of Palawan and offer a huge range of anchorages and beautiful scenery.
See the comprehensive report from MV Solita on these islands.Culion Island
This is the second largest island in the group and has little tourist development. The main town, Culion, is on the north eastern coast. It has many historic buildings. There is a good anchorage in the bay to the east and dinghies can be tied to one of the piers off the town.
The small stores here, together with the market at the western end of the waterfront, provide all the basics.
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This is the largest island in the group and the region's main town, Coron is here.
There is an anchorage off the town, behind the reef, in 9m. Watch out for the many floating lines in the approach. There is a more sheltered anchorage NW of Discovery Island in 6-8m but this involves a longer dinghy trip to reach the town.
Provisioning is good in the many small stores and the markets. There are several bakeries, hardware stores, laundry services and restaurants. Internet connections and phone services are good and the town has three banks with ATMs. Fuel is available and can be delivered in drums to the wharf or jerry jugged by dinghy.
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Traffic A film review by Max Messier Copyright 2000 filmcritic.com
How do you fight a war when the people that you love are the enemy? When the conflict is in your own neighborhood, or your own house? Such is the dilemma in the exceptional new film about the drug trade in the United States and Mexico, Traffic.
A harrowing and thought-provoking film, Traffic revolves around three intertwining stories of cops, thugs, victims, enforcers, politicians, and the judicial system. The film is based on a British Channel 4 miniseries called Traffik, which traced a drug route from Pakistan through Europe and to Great Britain. Laura Bickford, one of the producers for Traffic, was attracted to the original miniseries because of the intersecting stories, the social commentary on drug usage, and the implication of The System itself being the major perpetrator of drug addiction.
The film revolves around three disparate stories, which Soderbergh handles with aplomb. One story centers on Tijuana State policeman Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro) and his partner, Manolo, caught in a web of political corruption centered on the Mexican drug trade. Del Toro is a standout, delivering a subtle, powerful performance rich with authenticity.
A second story centers on Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), the U.S. President's newly appointed drug czar whose daughter Caroline (played by newcomer Erika Christensen), an A+ student, develops a drug problem that turns from occasional use to severe addiction. This story focuses on the impact of drugs on the nuclear family and the general inability of the family to protect itself. Douglas and Amy Irving (as Wakefield's wife) turn in wonderful performances as quiet, concerned parents who are powerless to stop their daughter's fall into drug use.
Finally, the third story revolves around the actual purveyors of drugs and the law enforcers determined to put them out of business. The story is anchored by Helena Ayala (Catherine Zeta-Jones), wife of major San Diego drug baron Carlos (Steven Bauer). Unaware of her husband's illicit business, she enlists the aid of her husband's attorney Arnie Metzger (Dennis Quaid playing a slime ball) to get him out of jail -- even if it means taking over the business.
All of these stories add up to make Traffic one of the best films of 2000.
Soderbergh's deft directing and cinematography work give each section of the film a unique look and feel. The Mexican landscape is overexposed and enriched with sepia tones. The home of Douglas and the government agencies are a cool-blue color in sharp contrast. San Diego has a warm glow to its environment and its population. Whenever characters from each of the stories intersect, things get really spicy.
Traffic tackles tough situations and still delivers a solid, complex tale filled with thrilling moments and heart-wrenching drama. The film doesn't deliver a solution for ending the war on drugs, but it does offer insight into the business. As a tale about the most self-destructive part of society, Soderbergh has created nothing short of a masterpiece.
Five stars out of five stars [HIGHEST RATING]
Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: Steven Gagne Producers: Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford Starring: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Rated: R
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171. Sarov zones
time limit per test: 0.3 sec.
memory limit per test: 1024
KB
input: standard
output: standard
It is known that to participate the All-Russian Mathematic
Olympiad one should do one of other olympiads enough good. These olympiads are
called "zone olympiads" and the region from which people participate the same
zone olympiad is called "zone". Sarov city of Nizhny Novgorod district is
situated near the boundary of zones, so every year school students of Sarov
participate several zones.
This year K zones invited students from Sarov
to participate their olympiads. i-th zone invited N[i] students, so
N=N[1]+N[2]+...+N[K] totally students were invited. After the Sarov city
olympiad, N students were selected, so now the olympiad authorities of Sarov
have to decide, which students will participate which zone olympiad. Each
student is characterized by his olympiad level and each zone is characterized by
its zone level. If a student with olympiad level P participates zone with zone
level Q, he will be invited to All-Russian olympiad if and only if P>Q.
Every student is also characterized by his "weight". The Sarov olympiad
authorities want, that the All-Russian Olympiad will be participated by students
with maximal summary weight. You are to help them. Write a program which will
divide the students between zones. Keep in mind that exactly N[i] students can
go to i-th zone.
Input
On the first line of input there is an only integer K
(1<=K<=100). On the second line there are K integers N[1], N[2], ... ,N[K]
(0<=N[i]<=16000). On the third line there are K more integers Q[1], Q[2],
... ,Q[K] --- the zone levels of the zones. On the fourth line there are N
integers P[1], P[2], ... P[N] --- olympiad levels of the students.
(0<=Q[i]<=1000000, 0<=P[i]<=1000000). On the last (and fifth) line
there are N integers w[1], w[2], ... w[k] --- the "weights" of students.
0<=w[i]<=100000. It is also guaranteed that 0<=N<=16000.
Output
Output only N integers --- Z[1], Z[2], ... Z[N] --- the numbers
of zones which should be participated by students 1, 2, ... N.
Sample test(s)
Input
2
1 1
4 1
2 3
2 1
Output
2 1
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Key Developer Features
- Host Card Emulation
- Printing framework
- Storage access framework
- Low-power sensors
- SMS provider
- Full-screen Immersive mode
- Transitions framework
- Chromium WebView
- Screen recording
- RenderScript NDK
- Bluetooth HOGP and MAP
- IR Blasters
- Closed captioning settings
- RTL features
- Security enhancements
- Tools for analyzing memory use
Welcome to Android 4.4 KitKat!
Android KitKat brings all of Android's most innovative, most beautiful, and most useful features to more devices everywhere.
This document provides a glimpse of what's new for developers.
Find out more about KitKat for consumers at www.android.com.
Making Android for everyone
Android 4.4 is designed to run fast, smooth, and responsively on a much broader range of devices than ever before — including on millions of entry-level devices around the world that have as little as 512MB RAM.
KitKat streamlines every major component to reduce memory use and introduces new APIs and tools to help you create innovative, responsive, memory-efficient applications.
OEMs building the next generation of Android devices can take advantage of targeted recommendations and options to run Android 4.4 efficiently, even on low-memory devices. Dalvik JIT code cache tuning, kernel samepage merging (KSM), swap to zRAM, and other optimizations help manage memory. New configuration options let OEMs tune out-of-memory levels for processes, set graphics cache sizes, control memory reclaim, and more.
In Android itself, changes across the system improve memory management and reduce memory footprint. Core system processes are trimmed to use less heap, and they now more aggressively protect system memory by killing long-running cached and idle processes that consume large memory. When multiple services start at once — such as when network connectivity changes — Android now launches the services serially, in small groups, to avoid peak memory demands.
For developers, Android 4.4 helps you deliver apps that are efficient and responsive on all devices. A new API, ActivityManager.isLowRamDevice(), lets you tune your app's behavior to match the device's memory configuration. You can modify or disable large-memory features as needed, depending on the use-cases you want to support on entry-level devices. Learn more about optimizing your apps for low-memory devices here.
New tools give also give you powerful insight into your app's memory use. The procstats tool details memory use over time, with run times and memory footprint for foreground apps and background services. An on-device view is also available as a new developer option. The meminfo tool is also enhanced to make it easier to spot memory trends and issues, and it reveals additional memory overhead that hasn't previously been visible.
New NFC capabilities through Host Card Emulation
Android 4.4 introduces new platform support for secure NFC-based transactions through Host Card Emulation (HCE), for payments, loyalty programs, card access, transit passes, and other custom services. With HCE, any app on an Android device can emulate an NFC smart card, letting users tap to initiate transactions with an app of their choice — no provisioned secure element (SE) in the device is needed. Apps can also use a new Reader Mode to act as readers for HCE cards and other NFC-based transactions.
Android HCE emulates ISO/IEC 7816 based smart cards that use the contactless ISO/IEC 14443-4 (ISO-DEP) protocol for transmission. These cards are used by many systems today, including the existing EMVCO NFC payment infrastructure. Android uses Application Identifiers (AIDs) as defined in ISO/IEC 7816-4 as the basis for routing transactions to the correct Android applications.
Apps declare the AIDs they support in their manifest files, along with a category identifier that indicates the type of support available (for example, "payments"). In cases where multiple apps support the same AID in the same category, Android displays a dialog that lets the user choose which app to use.
When the user taps to pay at a point-of-sale terminal, the system extracts the preferred AID and routes the transaction to the correct application. The app reads the transaction data and can use any local or network-based services to verify and then complete the transaction.
Android HCE requires an NFC controller to be present in the device. Support for HCE is already widely available on most NFC controllers, which offer dynamic support for both HCE and SE transactions. Android 4.4 devices that support NFC will include Tap & Pay for easy payments using HCE.
Printing framework
Android apps can now print any type of content over Wi-Fi or cloud-hosted services such as Google Cloud Print. In print-enabled apps, users can discover available printers, change paper sizes, choose specific pages to print, and print almost any kind of document, image, or file.
Android 4.4 introduces native platform support for printing, along with APIs for managing printing and adding new types of printer support. The platform provides a print manager that mediates between apps requesting printing and installed print services that handle print requests. The print manager provides shared services and a system UI for printing, giving users consistent control over printing from any app. The print manager also ensures the security of content as it's passed across processes, from an app to a print service.
Printer manufacturers can use new APIs to develop their own print services — pluggable components that add vendor-specific logic and services for communicating with specific types of printers. They can build print services and distribute them through Google Play, making it easy for users to find and install them on their devices. Just as with other apps, you can update print services over-the-air at any time.
App developers can use new APIs to add printing capabilities to their apps with minimal code changes. In most cases, you would add a print action to your Action Bar and a UI for choosing items to print. You would also implement APIs to create print jobs, query the print manager for status, and cancel jobs. This lets you print nearly any type of content, from local images and documents to network data or a view rendered to a canvas.
For broadest compatibility, Android uses PDF as its primary file format for printing. Before printing, your app needs to generate a properly paginated PDF version of your content. For convenience, the printing API provides native and WebView helper classes to let you create PDFs using standard Android drawing APIs. If your app knows how to draw the content, it can quickly create a PDF for printing.
Most devices running Android 4.4 will include Google Cloud Print pre-installed as a print service, as well as several Google apps that support printing, including Chrome, Drive, Gallery, and QuickOffice.
Storage access framework
A new storage access framework makes it simple for users to browse and open documents, images, and other files across all of their their preferred document storage providers. A standard, easy-to-use UI lets users browse files and access recents in a consistent way across apps and providers.
Storage services can participate in this ecosystem by implementing a new document provider class that encapsulates their services. The provider class includes all of the APIs needed to register the provider with the system and manage browsing, reading, and writing documents in the provider. The document provider can give users access to any local or remote data that can be represented as files — from text, photos, and wallpapers to video, audio, and more.
If you build a document provider for a local or cloud-based service, you can deliver it to users as part of your existing Android app. After downloading and installing the app, users will have instant access your service from any app that participates in the framework. This can help you gain exposure and user engagement, since users will find your services more easily.
If you develop an app that manages files or documents, you can integrate with the storage access framework just by using new CREATE_DOCUMENT or OPEN_DOCUMENT intents to open or create files — the system automatically displays the standard UI for browsing documents, including all available document providers.
You can integrate your app one time, for all providers, without any vendor-specific code. As users add or remove providers, they’ll continue to have access to their preferred services from your app, without changes or updates needed in your code.
The storage access framework is integrated with the existing GET_CONTENT intent, so users also have access to all of their previous content and data sources from the new system UI for browsing. Apps can continue using GET_CONTENT as a way to let users import data. The storage access framework and system UI for browsing make it easier for users to find and import their data from a wider range of sources.
Most devices running Android 4.4 will include Google Drive and local storage pre-integrated as document providers, and Google apps that work with files also use the new framework.
Low-power sensors
Sensor batching
Android 4.4 introduces platform support for hardware sensor batching, a new optimization that can dramatically reduce power consumed by ongoing sensor activities.
With sensor batching, Android works with the device hardware to collect and deliver sensor events efficiently in batches, rather than individually as they are detected. This lets the device's application processor remain in a low-power idle state until batches are delivered.
You can request batched events from any sensor using a standard event listener, and you can control the interval at which you receive batches. You can also request immediate delivery of events between batch cycles.
Sensor batching is ideal for low-power, long-running use-cases such as fitness, location tracking, monitoring, and more. It can makes your app more efficient and it lets you track sensor events continuously — even while the screen is off and the system is asleep.
Sensor batching is currently available on Nexus 5, and we're working with our chipset partners to bring it to more devices as soon as possible.
Step Detector and Step Counter
Android 4.4 also adds platform support for two new composite sensors — step detection and step counter — that let your app track steps when the user is walking, running, or climbing stairs. These new sensors are implemented in hardware for low power consumption.
The step detector analyzes accelerometer input to recognize when the user has taken a step, then triggers an event with each step. The step counter tracks the total number of steps since the last device reboot and triggers an event with each change in the step count. Because the logic and sensor management is built into the platform and underlying hardware, you don't need to maintain your own detection algorithms in your app.
Step detector and counter sensors are available on Nexus 5, and we're working with our chipset partners to bring them to new devices as soon as possible.
SMS provider
If you develop a messaging app that uses SMS or MMS, you can now use a shared SMS provider and new APIs to manage your app's message storage and retrieval. The new SMS provider and APIs define a standardized interaction model for all apps that handle SMS or MMS messages.
Along with the new provider and APIs, Android 4.4 introduces new semantics for receiving messages and writing to the provider. When a message is received, the system routes it directly to the user's default messaging app using the new SMS_DELIVER intent. Other apps can still listen for incoming messages using the SMS_RECEIVED intent. Also, the system now allows only the default app to write message data to the provider, although other apps can read at any time. Apps that are not the user's default can still send messages — the system handles writing those messages to the provider on behalf of the app, so that users can see them in the default app.
The new provider and semantics help to improve the user's experience when multiple messaging apps are installed, and they help you to build new messaging features with fully-supported, forward-compatible APIs.
New ways to build beautiful apps
Full-screen Immersive mode
Now your apps can use every pixel on the device screen to showcase your content and capture touch events. Android 4.4 addsa new full-screen immersive mode that lets you create full-bleed UIs reaching from edge to edge on phones and tablets, hiding all system UI such as the status bar and navigation bar. It's ideal for rich visual content such as photos, videos, maps, books, and games.
In the new mode, the system UI stays hidden, even while users are interacting with your app or game — you can capture touch events from anywhere across the screen, even areas that would otherwise be occupied by the system bars. This gives you a great way to create a larger, richer, more immersive UI in your app or game and also reduce visual distraction.
To make sure that users always have easy, consistent access to system UI from full-screen immersive mode, Android 4.4 supports a new gesture — in immersive mode, an edge swipe from the top or bottom of the screen now reveals the system UI.
To return to immersive mode, users can touch the screen outside of the bar bounds or wait for a short period for the bars to auto-hide. For a consistent user experience, the new gesture also works with previous methods of hiding the status bar.
Transitions framework for animating scenes
Most apps structure their flows around several key UI states that expose different actions. Many apps also use animation to help users understand their progress through those states and the actions available in each. To make it easier to create high-quality animations in your app, Android 4.4 introduces a new transitions framework.
The transitions framework lets you define scenes, typically view hierarchies, and transitions, which define how to animate or transform the scenes when the user enters or exits them. You can use several predefined transition types to animate your scenes based on specific properties, such as layout bounds, or visibility. There's also an auto-transition type that automatically fades, moves, and resizes views during a scene change. In addition, you can define custom transitions that animate the properties that matter most to your app, and you can plug in your own animation styles if needed.
With the transitions framework you can also animate changes to your UI on the fly, without needing to define scenes. For example, you can make a series of changes to a view hierarchy and then have the TransitionManager automatically run a delayed transition on those changes.
Once you've set up transitions, it's straightforward to invoke them from your app. For example, you can call a single method to begin a transition, make various changes in your view hierarchy, and on the next frame animations will automatically begin that animate the changes you specified.
For custom control over the transitions that run between specific scenes in your application flow, you can use the TransitionManager. The TransitionManager lets you define the relationship between scenes and the transitions that run for specific scene changes.
Translucent system UI styling
To help get more impact out of your content, you can now use new window styles and themes to request translucent system UI, including both the status bar and navigation bar. To ensure the legibility of navigation bar buttons or status bar information, subtle gradients is shown behind the system bars. A typical use-case would be an app that needs to show through to a wallpaper.
Enhanced notification access
Notification listener services can now see more information about incoming notifications that were constructed using the notification builder APIs. Listener services can access a notification's actions as well as new extras fields — text, icon, picture, progress, chronometer, and many others — to extract cleaner information about the notification and present the information in a different way.
Chromium WebView
Android 4.4 includes a completely new implementation of WebView that's based on Chromium. The new Chromium WebView gives you the latest in standards support, performance, and compatibility to build and display your web-based content.
Chromium WebView provides broad support for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It supports most of the HTML5 features available in Chrome for Android 30. It also brings an updated version of the JavaScript Engine (V8) that delivers dramatically improved JavaScript performance.
In addition, the new Chromium WebView supports remote debugging using Chrome DevTools. For example, you can use Chrome DevTools on your development machine to inspect, debug, and analyze your WebView content live on a mobile device.
The new Chromium WebView is included on all compatible devices running Android 4.4 and higher. You can take advantage of the new WebView right away, and with minimum modifications to existing apps and content. In most cases, your content will migrate to the new implementation seamlessly in most cases.
New media capabilities
Screen recording
Now it's easy to create high-quality video of your app, directly from your Android device. Android 4.4 adds support for screen recording and provides a screen recording utility that lets you capture video as you use the device and store it as an MP4 file. It's a great new way to create walkthroughs and tutorials for your app, testing materials, marketing videos, and much more.
You can record at any device-supported resolution and bitrate you want, and the output retains the aspect ratio of the display. By default, the utility selects a resolution equal or close to the device's display resolution in the current orientation. When you are done recording, you can share the video directly from your device or pull the MP4 file to your host computer for post-production.
If your app plays video or other protected content that you don’t want to be captured by the screen recorder, you can use SurfaceView.setSecure() to mark the content as secure.
You can access screen recording through the adb tool included in the Android SDK, using the command adb shell screenrecord. You can also launch it through the DDMS panel in Android Studio.
Resolution switching through adaptive playback
Android 4.4 brings formal support for adaptive playback into the Android media framework. Adaptive playback is an optional feature of video decoders for MPEG-DASH and other formats that enables seamless change in resolution during playback. The client can start to feed the decoder input video frames of a new resolution and the resolution of the output buffers change automatically, and without a significant gap.
Resolution switching in Android 4.4 lets media apps offer a significantly better streaming video experience. Apps can check for adaptive playback support at runtime using existing APIs and implement resolution-switching using new APIs introduced in Android 4.4.
Common Encryption for DASH
Android now supports the Common Encryption (CENC) for MPEG-DASH, providing a standard, multiplatform DRM scheme for managing protecting content. Apps can take advantage of CENC through Android's modular DRM framework and platform APIs for supporting DASH.
HTTP Live Streaming
Android 4.4 updates the platform's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) support to a superset of version 7 of the HLS specification (version 4 of the protocol). See the IETF draft for details.
Audio Tunneling to DSP
For high-performance, lower-power audio playback, Android 4.4 adds platform support for audio tunneling to a digital signal processor (DSP) in the device chipset. With tunneling, audio decoding and output effects are off-loaded to the DSP, waking the application processor less often and using less battery.
Audio tunneling can dramatically improve battery life for use-cases such as listening to music over a headset with screen off. For example, with audio tunneling, Nexus 5 offers a total off-network audio playback time of up to 60 hours, an increase of over 50% over non-tunneled audio.
Media applications can take advantage of audio tunneling on supported devices without needing to modify code. The system applies tunneling to optimize audio playback whenever it's available on the device.
Audio tunneling requires support in the device hardware. Currently audio tunneling is available on Nexus 5 and we're working with our chipset partners to make it available on more devices as soon as possible.
Audio monitoring
Apps can use new monitoring tools in the Visualizer effect to get updates on the peak and RMS levels of any currently playing audio on the device. For example, you could use this creatively in music visualizers or to implement playback metering in a media player.
Loudness enhancer
Media playback applications can increase the loudness of spoken content by using the new LoudnessEnhancer effect, which acts as compressor with time constants that are specifically tuned for speech.
Audio timestamps for improved AV sync
The audio framework can now report presentation timestamps from the audio output HAL to applications, for better audio-video synchronization. Audio timestamps let your app determine when a specific audio frame will be (or was) presented off-device to the user; you can use the timestamp information to more accurately synchronize audio with video frames.
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast™
Android 4.4 devices can now be certified to the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi Display Specification as Miracast compatible. To help with testing, a new Wireless Display developer option exposes advanced configuration controls and settings for Wireless Display certification. You can access the option at Settings > Developer options > Wireless display certification
. Nexus 5 is a Miracast certified wireless display device.RenderScript Compute
Ongoing performance improvements
When your apps use RenderScript, they'll benefit from ongoing performance tuning in the RenderScript runtime itself, without the need for recompilation. The chart at right shows performance gains in Android 4.4 on two popular chipsets.
GPU acceleration
Any app using RenderScript on a supported device benefits from GPU acceleration, without code changes or recompiling. Since the Nexus 10 first debuted RenderScript GPU acceleration, various other hardware partners have added support.
Now with Android 4.4, GPU acceleration is available on the Nexus 5, as well as the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (2013), and Nexus 10, and we're working with our partners to bring it to more devices as soon as possible.
RenderScript in the Android NDK
Now you can take advantage of RenderScript directly from your native code. A new C++ API in the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) lets you access the same RenderScript functionality available through the framework APIs, including script intrinsics, custom kernels, and more.
If you have large, performance-intensive tasks to handle in native code, you can perform those tasks using RenderScript and integrate them with your native code. RenderScript offers great performance across a wide range of devices, with automatic support for multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and other processors.
When you build an app that uses the RenderScript through the NDK, you can distribute it to any device running Android 2.2 or or higher, just like with the RenderScript support library available for framework APIs.
Graphics
GLES2.0 SurfaceFlinger
Android 4.4 upgrades its SurfaceFlinger from OpenGL ES 1.0 to OpenGL ES 2.0. This boosts performance by using multi-texturing, and it improves color calibration and supports more advanced special effects.
New Hardware Composer support for virtual displays
The latest version of Android Hardware Composer, HWComposer 1.3, supports hardware composition of one virtual display in addition to the primary, external (e.g. HDMI) display, and has improved OpenGL ES interoperability.
New Types of Connectivity
New Bluetooth profiles
Android 4.4 support for two new Bluetooth profiles to let apps support a broader range of low-power and media interactions. Bluetooth HID over GATT (HOGP) gives apps a low-latency link with low-power peripheral devices such as mice, joysticks, and keyboards. Bluetooth MAP lets your apps exchange messages with a nearby device, for example an automotive terminal for handsfree use or another mobile device. As an extension to Bluetooth AVRCP 1.3, users can now set absolute volume on the system from their Bluetooth devices.
Platform support for HOGP, MAP, and AVRCP is built on the Bluedroid Bluetooth stack introduced by Google and Broadcom in Android 4.2. Support is available right away on Nexus devices and other Android-compatible devices that offer compatible Bluetooth capabilities.
IR Blasters
Android 4.4 introduces platform support for built-in IR blasters, along with a new API and system service that let you create apps to take advantage them.
Using the new API, you can build apps that let users remotely control nearby TVs, tuners, switches, and other electronic devices. The API lets your app check whether the phone or tablet has an infrared emitter, query it's carrier frequencies, and then send infrared signals.
Because the API is standard across Android devices running Android 4.4 or higher, your app can support the broadest possible range of vendors without writing custom integration code.
Wi-Fi TDLS support
Android 4.4 introduces a seamless way to stream media and other data faster between devices already on the same Wi-Fi network by supporting Wi-Fi Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS).
Accessibility
System-wide settings for closed captioning
Android 4.4 now supports a better accessibility experience across apps by adding system-wide preferences for Closed Captioning. Users can go to Settings > Accessibility > Captions to set global captioning preferences, such as whether to show captions and what language, text size, and text style to use.
Apps that use video can now access the user's captioning settings and adjust their presentation to meet the user's preferences. A new captioning manager API lets you check and monitor the user's captioning preferences. The captioning manager provides you with the user's preferred captioning state as well as preferred locale, scaling factor, and text style. The text style includes foreground and background colors, edge properties, and typeface.
In addition, apps that use VideoView can use a new API to pass a captioning stream along with a video stream for rendering. The system automatically handles the display of the captions on video frames according to the user's systemwide settings. Currently, VideoView supports auto-display of captions in WebVTT format only.
All apps that show captions should make sure to check the user's systemwide captioning preferences and render captions as closely as possible to those preferences. For more insight into how specific combinations of settings should look, you can look at a preview of captions in different languages, sizes, and styles right in the Settings app.
Enhanced Accessibility APIs
Android 4.4 extends the accessibility APIs to support more precise structural and semantic description and observation of onscreen elements. With the new APIs, developers can improve the quality of accessible feedback by providing accessibility services with more information about on-screen elements.
In accessibility nodes, developers can now determine whether a node is a popup, get it’s input type, and more. You can also use new APIs to work with nodes that contain grid-like information, such as lists and tables. For example, you can now specify new supported actions, collection information, live region modes, and more.
New accessibility events let developers more closely follow the changes that are taking place in window content, and they can now listen for changes in the touch exploration mode on the device.
Support for international Users
Drawable mirroring for RTL locales
If your app is targeting users who use RTL scripts, you can use a new API to declare that a Drawable should be auto-mirrored when the user's locale setting includes an RTL language.
Declaring a Drawable as auto-mirrored helps you prevent duplication of assets in your app and reduces the the size of your APK. When you have drawables that are the reusable for both LTR and RTL presentations, you can declare the default versions as auto-mirrored and then omit those Drawables from your RTL resources.
You can declare various types of Drawables as auto-mirrored in your application code, such as bitmap, nine-patch, layer, state list, and other Drawables. You can also declare a Drawable as auto-mirrored in your resource files by using a new attribute.
RTL pseudo-locale
To make it easier to test and debug your layouts, Android includes an RTL pseudo-locale as a new developer option.
The RTL pseudo-locale switches the device to RTL layout for all locales and displays text in your current language. This can help you find layout issues across your app, without having to display the app in an RTL language. You can access the RTL pseudo-localed as in Settings > Developer options > Force RTL layout direction.
Security enhancements
SELinux (enforcing mode)
Android 4.4 updates its SELinux configuration from "permissive" to "enforcing." This means potential policy violations within a SELinux domain that has an enforcing policy will be blocked.
Improved cryptographic algorithms
Android has improved its security further by adding support for two more cryptographic algorithms. Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) support has been added to the keystore provider improving security of digital signing, applicable to scenarios such as signing of an application or a data connection. The Scrypt key derivation function is implemented to protect the cryptographic keys used for full-disk encryption.
Other enhancements
On multiuser devices, VPNs are now applied per user. This can allow a user to route all network traffic through a VPN without affecting other users on the device. Also, Android now supports FORTIFY_SOURCE level 2, and all code is compiled with those protections. FORTIFY_SOURCE has been enhanced to work with clang.
Tools for analyzing memory use
Procstats
A new tool called procstats helps you analyze the memory resources your app uses, as well as the resources used by other apps and services running on the system.
Procstats keeps track of how apps are running over time, providing data about their execution durations and memory use to help determine how efficiently they are performing. This is most important for apps that start services that run in the background, since it lets you monitor how long they are running and how much RAM they are using while doing so. Procstats will also collect data for foreground applications about memory use over time to determine the overall memory profile of the app.
Procstats can help you identify background services started by your app. You can keep track of how long those services continue running and how much RAM they use while doing so. Procstats also lets you profile your app while it's in the foreground, using its memory use over time to determine its overall memory profile.
You can access procstats from the adb tool included in the Android SDK, adb shell dumpsys procstats. Also, for on-device profiling, see the Process Stats developer option, below.
On-device memory status and profiling
Android 4.4 includes a new developer option to make it easier to analyze your app's memory profile while it's running on any device or emulator. It's especially useful to get a view of how your app uses memory and performs on devices with low RAM. You can access the option at Settings > Developer options > Process stats
The Process Stats option shows you a variety of high-level metrics on your app's memory use, based on data collected using the new procstats service. On the main screen you can see a summary of system memory status. Green indicates relative amount of time spent with low RAM usage, yellow indicates moderate RAM usage, and red indicates high (critical) RAM usage
Below the summary is a list summarizing each app's memory load on the system. For each app, a blue bar indicates the relative computed memory load (runtime x avg_pss) of its process, and a percentage number indicates the relative amount of time spent in the background. You can filter the list to show only foreground, background, or cached processes, and you can include or exclude system processes. You can also change the duration of the data collected to 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours, and you can include or exclude uss memory.
To take a closer look at a specific app's memory usage in isolation, tap the app. For each app, you can now see a summary of the memory consumed and the percentage of the collection interval that the app has been running. You can also see the average and maximum usage over the collection period, and below the app's services and the percentage of time they've been running.
Analyzing your app using the data in Process Stats can reveal issues and suggest possible optimizations for your app. For example, if your app is running longer than it should or using too much memory over a period of time, there could be bugs in your code that you can resolve to improve your app's performance, especially when running on a device with low RAM.