Google has kicked-off its Google I/O keynote address by announcing Android 4.1 Jelly Bean – this is a long rumored update, which got confirmed when we saw Google setting up Jelly Bean statue at it’s Mountain View campus a few days back! So what does Jelly Bean have to offer?

The design of Jelly Bean is focused on making the platform “simple, beautiful, and really smart”. Jelly Bean includes Project Butter, a system-wide overhaul to improve the smoothness of display out and be more responsive to your touch inputs, a revamped search experience with some very smart Google search powered voice control, and smarter control over widget resizing and home screen customization and personalization!

Project Butter is an attempt to make things as smooth as say on iOS devices! It is a nice and neat attempt in my opinion! Something Android needed desperately!

International users will like the extended language support in Jelly Bean. From Arabic to Hebrew, Japanese to Persian, also includes Hindi and Thai! There is also a new algorithm to power the predictive text on the improved keyboard!

Notifications get a major revamp, adding in photos, multiple notification sizes, and actions to allow you to interact with apps straight from the notification display – which is a very welcome and interesting change.

Overall, Jelly Bean is nothing revolutionary just tid-bits being sorted by Google, please don’t expect any major changes, it’s just a service pack sort of an update!