Yandex.Quit is a launcher from the same-name firmware for Android created by the famous Russian company. This decision is intended for those who like the "KIT" interface, but in the installation of the firmware itself there is no need. In fact, we have a somewhat recycled and rethinkable version of the very popular graphic shell Yandex.Shell. Working with this launcher has become even more comfortable and more pleasant than with his "progenitor", and besides, he received a modern "material" interface that will probably enjoy even the most demanding users.
Among the useful functions that this shell provides, you can select quick access to branded Yandex applications, a very stylish lock screen with support for various unlocking mechanisms, a very interesting design "Shutters", ergonomic phone number entry screen, set of "branded" widgets of the clock, Weather and much more. In addition, the appendix has a large library of beautiful high-resolution wallpapers. The undoubted advantage of Yandex.Qut can also be considered that it is rather quickly working even devices with a relatively weak "hardware". You can download and enjoy this launcher for free.
Russian users of smartphones and tablets can be written. Yandex officially announced the release of the release of the new firmware Yandex Kit on the basis of Android. The firmware is specifically made for Russian-speaking people, adapted to the requirements and specifics of the CIS countries and should be revolutionary.
Yandex Kit - innovation among standard firmware
CyanogenMod is an excellent firmware that is an alternative to standard. She already found many fans and actively enters the masses. Yandex also decided not to lag in this direction and issues its version of the OS for mobile platforms, which was called Yandex.Kit.
One of the pleasant features will be what local and geoted interests are taken into account. The built-in keyboard perfectly understands the case and knows many slang words.
In KIT, data from Yandex is built on, so it is not a problem at all to find the nearest contact details. It will also make it possible to determine the name of the incoming unknown call.
Change your smartphone and transfer completely contacts can be very easy through.
The slang innovation will be very visible when using the address book. For example, when the user enters Sash, Shura or Sasha, it will be shown all the appropriate options. In addition, the book will be booked from the directory online.
The most widelined way to come up with or set a difficult password to introduce it with Russian letters in English layout. The whale will provide a unique feature of the special keyboard mode, which will be simultaneously displayed both Russian and English letters.
In Yandex Kit, a careful battery consumption is implemented, which minimizes the number of current processes.
The interface will look like familiar desktops, only in the form of 3D. The complete list of applications is fully removed, and all new are added to the main screen.
Unfortunately, Yandex Kit so far only on smartphones Huawei Honor and Explay Flame, but it is so far. Also, users of this firmware will receive 10 discounts on purchases in the app store and 50 GB of the cloud disk service.
The first models will already be available in the spring of 2014.
Six months ago, I chose myself a phone and my choice fell on the Flame Explay budget model, where the firmware "Yandex.Kit" stood. In all characteristics, the phone was excellent for its cost at 5000r., And the young firmware from the domestic search engine called to support the manufacturer, in the hope that soon many applications are adapted to Yandex.Store and everything will be fine.
But time went and periodically I came across that I can't put some kind of necessary application. Then the museum was unable to deliver a free guide, I could not connect to the action chamber - Yandex.Kit confidently refused to me in all applications without a million classroom, and at the beginning of May Yandex closed the Yandex.Quit project at all, so That with my phone urgently needed to do something.
* Chinese Android programs from SYMA and HT quadcopters on the Flame Explay phone
It should be noted that I am currently engaged in the development of a quadcopter service service and I need to test online broadcast from the phone, and for these purposes, either a full android android or an iPhone is needed. The Chinese on other platforms, alas, do not write. So the output was alone - reflash your phone, putting a normal Android there.
In general, it turned out not so difficult, if you know which software to use and where to take it. Before starting, I recommend formatting a flash drive in my phone so that there are no problems and of course save all data (phones, photos, etc.), since everything will be removed.
We will need 4 files.You can immediately download them and put in the root of your flash drive (which is in the phone):
1. The AOSP firmware itself (Android, how did Google made it ...)
2. MobileUncle MTK Tools - To launch flashing (right on your phone)
3. Framaroot - to get root access (full access then you mean)
4. Castomal recovery (for example, it)
If you do not have an account on the 4pda.ru/forum forum, then get it to download files.
We also need some application to install.APK files, I entered the "Yandex.Store" in search "apk" and found APK Installer (in the Yandex Store it is called a little different, but it has more than 1000 installations and other similar there is no So do not confuse).
Next, we act like this:
1. Using the APK Installer application, find the Framaroot file. The phone will go through, they say it is not allowed to put a third-party application and reincarnates where it is necessary to put a tick opposite the "Unknown Sources". After that, the program is calmly installed.
MobileUuncle MTK Tools Do not install yet, otherwise it will not get root access
2. Go to Framaroot, I leave the default "install SuperSU", select the last Barahir method and see: "Success :) ... root rights are installed. You must restart the device. "
Restart the phone.
4. Using the APK Installer application, we find the MobileUncle MTK Tools program. Install.
5. Go to MobileUncle MTK Tools. At the first entrance, the phone should ask you for full access - allow.
6. We are looking for a "Recovery Update". Press.
7. At the beginning of the list, select the recovery, which was downloaded to the root (if he sees only from the Internet - it means not there)
8. Reboot in Recovery mode, the phone will ask where to find ZIP firmware - show him. And the installation has begun.
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If an error has been released, it seems "I can't open the file":
1. Reboot
2. Go again in MobileUncle MTK Tools
3. Select "Firmware Update (Email Update with SDCard)"
4. Confirm the correct firmware file correctly and launch.
Everything, after a few seconds you will see an unusual Android on your phone, but to use it as convenient as before - I recommend to find the Yandex.Shell application in the "Google Play" and after a couple of seconds you will see a familiar interface:
So in the end we get the same phone, only on the updated platform and with full access to "Google Play" applications. It is worth noting that now I am really pleased with my phone, a good big screen and sufficient performance was added with high-quality software and, it seems to me, he became a really good offer for his little money and, in particular, to use it as a monitor for online broadcasts. from quadcopters.
Thanks for reading, I hope my experience will come in handy and huge thanks to the guys from the 4pda.ru forum, which have posted all the programs for free.
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The firmware from Yandex, called Yandex.Kit (Kit from the English. Kit - set) was announced on February 19, 2014 at the official event. If before that there were only assumptions that they will receive, ultimately, users of devices, then at the event, the Russian web giant threw the intercourse.
The history of the creation of Yandex.Kit began with the acquisition of the company SPB Software (the transaction took place three years ago, November 28, 2011). Previously known for its developments for most mobile platforms, SPB has become a bone of the team that worked on the creation of Yandex.Kit. And here it is not necessary to smoke, at the heart of Yandex.Quit is a product from SPB - SPB Shell 3D, the shell has a good proven one more on Windows Mobile. The remaining services are entirely owned by Yandex, it is Yandex.pochet, Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Disk, Yandex.Taxi, in the end Yandex.Bauzer. All these services and default applications are already integrated into the firmware. Thus, Yandex is perhaps trying to make the first steps to create its own ecosystem in opposition to Google. And you need to add that services from Google to Yandex.kit are missing completely, there is not a single element resembling a competing company (as the basis of Yandex is taken freely distributed assembly of Android with a sequence number 4.2.2). The application store through which users could install programs are replaced here at their own - Yandex.Store (according to the application of the representatives of Yandex, now there are more than 100,000 applications in it). Google Play Market with a great desire can be installed, but the most common applications are in the store.
Today, under the control of Yandex.Kit, only two devices work, the first is the smartphone Huawei Honor 3 (it is today and there will be a review hero), the second is the EXPLAY FLAME smartphone. The first smartphone has already been presented for a long time on the market and is sold successfully, the second will go on sale in the second half of April and will be sold with the pre-installed Yandex.Quit (Huawei Honor 3 too). Issue for the sale of devices with pre-installed Yandex.Kit is scheduled for the second half of April (while the material has been retracted. It became known that Huawei Honor 3 Yandex.Quit will go on sale from April 8! - Committee.), To install it yourself while users have no opportunity. In the future, Yandex.Quit is planned for tablets (Yandex partner among manufacturers is still unknown, but it can be assumed that it will also be Huawei), of course, how will the device be sold and how they will be perceived by the market.
And today we will see the example of Huaewei Honor 3 what Yandex.Quit is. Let's look at its appearance, opportunities, settings, chips, etc. Get ready that Overview Yandex.kit will be the most detailed as possible, with a large number of screenshots and text. Otherwise it would be impossible to completely cover all the elements of the Yandex brainchild.
First launch of the device
When you first start (from which you immediately understand that you have a device with the Yandex.Quit firmware in your hands) you will be asked to select the language of the device (the default is Russian), select the time zone, specify the existing account in Yandex services (or register if it is not ), Do you need to download photos to Yandex.Disk, select preferred applications that will be installed after completing the setting (for this it is better to use WiFi network), agree with the user agreement and that's it. The phone will be ready for work in a few seconds.
Sheath Yandex.Kit. Appearance, basic settings.
The desktop of the phone is nothing more as a familiar to many Yandex.shell shell that you could see earlier (it is freely available on Google Play Market or Yandex.Store). In Yandex.kit, it was recycled in the design plan (it became vector in most elements) and intuitive shell control. Most interface personalization items changed, controls added (although many, on the contrary are removed, it is possible to not overload the standard interface to do not overload.
The shell screens are panels with which you can do anything, remove or add items, set widgets, place shortcuts. There are no obvious restrictions, as in any other shell. The number of panels placed is not limited (the only thing that I wanted to be reminded that the more panels, the more RAM is used).
You can navigate between panels with standard swipes in both directions or switch to the desired panel in the "Carousel" mode, to do this, make a tweezer with two fingers to the center of the screen or press the panel stri-indicator below the main space. In the carousel mode of each panel corresponds to its animation, i.e. If this is a newspapers, after a couple of seconds, the newspaper will unfold before you, if this is the application panel, then the main of them will be shown. It looks very beautiful.
The main concept of the Yandex.Quit shell is the failure of the standard application menu, where all the labels of installed programs are usually located. Here, after installing the application, the program shortcut immediately appears (such an approach to the organization of the workspace at the MIUI shell and her like, and MIUI in turn borrowed the idea of \u200b\u200bIOS). The size of the screen grid 5 lines and 4 columns. Those. On the same panel you can accommodate up to 20 items at the same time (changing the size of the grid can not, although in SBP Shell the grid was two types 4 * 4 and 5 * 5).
On the main screen Yandex.Shell is a weather widget with a search string, it is impossible to remove it, it is tightly "glued". In the search string settings, you can specify some of the search services will be used - Yandex, Google or Bing. Under the widget there is space to accommodate its elements.
Folders, labels
The original chick of the Yandex.Quit is a way to place folders on the screen, it can be like a classic folder look, when the shortcuts are inside it and the detailed look, when the three elements of the folder are always at hand, and the rest remain inside. You can add your folders on the panel, set them the names, place shortcuts, tamblers, quick call shortcuts, etc. There are in the settings and a hidden folder to which you can remove the items that are used extremely rare.
Widgets
Original Yandex widgets are represented by 16 different widgets - poster, indicators, news, weather, TV program, gallery, birthday, magazine, calendar, world time, backlight, posts, moon phases, photo of the day, clock. Most of them are duplicate elements of the main panels, which are located on the shell screens. And if you do not want to install a lot of panels, then one (two or three) screen can immediately take out several Yandex widgets. Especially successful turned out the widget of the togglers (indicators). You can configure the main switches - backlight, battery, bluetooth, flashlight, GPS, mobile Internet, network status, profile, traffic jams, WiFi, access point. At the same time, only five togglers can be placed on this widget, plus the status bar of the battery status or the backlight level, or leave only switches. Standard widgets from Yandex, alas, are not scaling.
On any of the screens, you can add classic widgets from Android (they are familiar to you, although some are part of the Emotionui shell from Huawei) many of them are standard, the rest appear as third-party applications. They are scaled as in any other shell, all the widget settings on their usual places.
Dock
The standard string of the rapid launch that the people are called as the "dock bar" accommodates up to five elements, and this can be both shortcuts and folders. The number of dock bars is not configured, it is only one. Standard Icons Applications from Yandex When transferring them to the docking bar is converted from raster in vector, third-party remain raster (in SPB Shell Icons of third-party applications simply became gray).
Topics for decoration
In the standard setup of the design of Yandex.Kit, there are only two topics - dark and light. If the dark is default, then you can switch in the system settings (settings-home screen-appearance) it will be applied to all interface elements. Here you can also change the settings of the panels installed on the desktop (duplicate the settings of each panel separately). Below we present a few screenshots of bright themes of decoration.
Basic Screen Panels
Pan player
On this panel, you can see which movieons are in the nearest halls from you, read the description of the films, see the frames of them. If you go to a detailed description of the film, then below will be indicated in which cinemas (including the address and distance to them) and how much sessions will be. Here you can choose the site of a roller company in your city for more information, call tickets to tickets to book tickets or visit the AFISHA.yandex.ru site (information on it will correspond to the one that you have seen on the panel). You can open the address of the cinema in Yandex.Maps, if you do not know where the structure specifically is.
At the top of the panel there is a drop-down list in which you can change the movie displayed on the main panel. There is no use of the update periodicity, you can only specify the use of paid connections (meaning cellular networks).
Time panel
On this panel you can choose the cities for which the current time will be displayed. Several cities can be displayed at once (for example, as in the HTC Sense shell), each will have to be viewed separately by replacing the city in the drop-down list. The design of the clock can be changed, the benefits of the skins in the settings are presented more than sixty (from frankly male to glamorous female). Under the clock duplicated information about the date set by the alarms. Even below, it is indicated what is the lunar day, the moon phase and the percentage of the lighting of the Earth's satellite.
When you click on the clock, you can immediately go to the choice of the skins, they are not installed locally, you will have to download each separately. When you click on the date it is not transition to the calendar (although it would be logical), and the installation of the alarm clock is launched. When you click on the Description of the Lunar Day, a detailed calendar will be able to indicate the dates and phases of the moon at a certain point.
Panel notes
Often the widgets of notes in shells are implemented by third-party applications, they have to download them from Google Play Market. In Yandex.Kit, the notes panel is present initially and is part of the shell. Notes are added by pressing the "+" button in the upper right corner of the panel, while each of them is set color (random, the last or manually specified). Notes can be divided into categories so that there are no interchangeable on one panel (when changing the category, notes are automatically removed from others). In addition to the main categories, you can create yours. Notes can be placed one over the other in the sequence in which you need. You can set three types of font at notes - small, usual or large.
Very useful chip, if you need to make small records without special sings. Of course, the insertion of images or the minimum set of specials is missing (only those that are in the keyboard).
Online sync notes with Yandex services No, analogies with Google Keep here is not traced. I want to believe that it will be added in the future.
Panel calendar
The Calendar panel displays the current month in the form of a calendar, holidays for the coming days, as well as the next month. When you click on the date in the calendar, a standard application is launched where you can set an event, assign a meeting and set a reminder. In the options of the panel, you can customize which of the scheduled meetings to show, and indicate which day of the week is the first (Monday or Sunday).
Calculator panel
The simplest calculator with which you can perform basic mathematical actions. Engineering functions are not here, only the calculation of interest. On the one hand, it is correct if it becomes difficult to overload the calculator with superfluous buttons to use it, but for students, the calculation of basic mathematical functions would be a good help. Perhaps in the updates they will appear.
Panel News
The news panel displays the latest events occurring in the world and in the country with an indication of the time of placement of news in the media. You can specify several topics at once, which will be updated, and download news. News are divided into thematic channels, it is impossible to add their third-party sources. If you press the news, it will open in a separate window, and the numerous information sources will be placed slightly below, in which the same news is mentioned. By pressing the source, it will open in Yandex.Browser.
Display immediately all news in one tape can not (like mix), you will have to choose the topic in the list on the news bar, while automatically "will catch up" the latest news in the selected section. In the settings, you can specify which subjects will be displayed, forced news updates, clean the cached data, the automatic update time in the clock (can be updated manually), the use of cellular networks.
Panel Weather
Analogs of panels (well or widgets) with weather mapping are found in most launcher from manufacturers and this fate has not bypassed Yandex.Quit. Here it (panel) is made in a strict linear style (there is no pure HTC Sense or LG shell), and it looks probably even more advantageous. Again, there is no possibility to display the weather forecast at once in several cities (even in a compressed form), the forecast is constantly on the screen only for one. The rest can be viewed if you change the city in the list string, on top of the panel. As soon as you changed the city, high-quality photos of significant places for this city are tightened from the Internet (for Moscow, this, of course, became the Kremlin, for Peter Isaac's Cathedral, for the Blagoveshchensk for some reason the plane was displayed on the screen. By the way, Yandex did not forget about the authors of the photos taken, for each it is listed below the forecast (copyright is observed strictly). By pulling a brief forecast for the lower border, a detailed weather forecast for five days will be displayed.
In the panel settings, you can set additional cities, the frequency of update in hours, the use of cellular networks when updating, temperature scale (Celsius or Fahrenheit), measuring wind speed (mile per hour, nodes, meters per second, kilometers per hour), atmospheric scale Pressure (inches, millimeters, hectopascals, atmosphere). Initially established values \u200b\u200bthat are characteristic of Russia - Celsius, meters and millimeters. The forecast can be forcibly updated if you click on the update icon opposite the city on the panel (the same action can be performed from the settings menu). When viewing detailed settings, you can open the weather forecast for Yandex.Browser (although there is no particular sense, everything is perfectly displayed on the panel itself). The animation of weather forecast is absent, although in many analogs it is and, and for a very long time.
Phase panel Moon
This panel reflects the moon phases, as well as astrological locations of the planets in the signs of the zodiac. Below you can see the sunrise time and sunset. The panel is clearly for fondant astrology, amateur garders or for girls to know when best to do fashionable haircuts.
If you press the moon, the panel will change the 3D image of the planetary circle, where you can see the location of the Sun and Earth relative to the moon. It can also be seen in which of the signs of the zodiac is the Earth. At the time of writing a review, the land was in Aries (as it may sound and no matter what it means).
Panel photos
On the one hand, this is a good help when choosing wallpaper or images for entertainment work, on the other hand, if you enjoy downloading through cellular networks, this is another traffic eater.
Dive, branded chips and settings
In Yandex.kit, the subject of special pride is the revised interface of the standard phone application. In fact, the standard system application was replaced by its own (although not completely), with a completely different concept and interface (although individual "chips" could be seen in the 2GIS Dialer application).
Such characteristic only for Yandex.Kit chips are added to the dive as: a search in the telephone directory by name that can be both complete and decreasing (for example - Alexander Sasha-Shura, but if you do a search by Sasha, here the search will save and will not find anything), but only from the Russian language; "Infinite" Phonebook - In the event that no conformity is found in the phone book, the Dive will contact the Internet and gives the results in the form of a list of relevant request (it can be enterprises, recreation sites, etc.); Smart phone book that recognizes an unknown incoming call. But the last chip will work only if the phone is in the database of Yandex itself, otherwise the numbers will remain the numbers.
Contacts The phonebook can be entered both directly from the phone (saving it is possible only to Yandex.Pasport or on the SIM card of the phone), and by importing from Google Account (it is better to do this when you first start the phone, in the future you do not have to look for this option in Settings), further updating contacts occurs using the Carddav protocol.
When adding or editing a contact in the card has all the necessary fields for identification. You can even indicate the degree of contact in relation to you - father, mother, friend, colleague, etc.
The main interface when making calls inherited from the shell of Huawei Emotionui, here while Yandex.Qute did not have time to make changes. I want to believe that this defects the first version of the firmware.
Keyboard
Another branded chief company Yandex considers the keyboard application built into Yandex.Kit. The presentation reported a smart predicative input of words, which an order of magnitude is better guessing words than any other third-party keyboards. So this is whether or not yet, it is necessary to find out, but in the presentation Yandex used the slide, where it was indicated that the keyboard won when the text was inserted from many competitors.
Whose developments were taken as a basis, could not find out. The keyboard has only two topics of decoration - dark and light. And probably the main drawback, this is the lack of entering by sliding gestures (swipes). You will have to return a couple of years ago and enter the letters with the usual taps. Input languages \u200b\u200bare only two - Russian and English. Download Additional Languages \u200b\u200bor Dictionaries, as well as synchronize keyboard data with Yandex cloud services. No possibility. This is simply not in the options. For input, the voice is used by the Yandex engine.
The only chip that other keyboards can repeat is the so-called input on Ranglishe. Let's say a password that you have established to some other service was recruited by Russian letters in English layout. When using any other keyboard, you would have to pry into the usual desktop keyboard and dial the password. Yandex is elegantly bypassed this moment, when repeatedly pressing the language of languages \u200b\u200bon the English keyboard keys, Russian letters appear, and you calmly type your password. It works only in password input fields, in other cases the keyboard uses two traditional layouts.
Yandex.Store.
The company's company store from Yandex is a pre-installed and only place where you can download and install applications on the device. Once again, we will repeat that there is no traditional Play Market from Google, and there will be no. In Yandex.Store managed to find all the most necessary applications, there are both paid and free versions. When buying applications via Yandex.Store, the user returns up to 10% of the purchase amount. Trifle, but nice.
At the same time, Yandex did not block the installation of applications using APK packages from unknown sources. That is, if something is not found in Yandex.Store, you can always download the installation package from the Internet, copy it to the device and set manually.
Yandex.Disk
When authorized in the cloud storage service from Yandex - Yandex.Disk, the company gives you 50GB storage space. It is not yet known whether this action of generosity of temporary or gigabytes will be fixed for your account forever. I want to think that they will remain forever.
Software version, assembly Yandex.Kit
The version of the OS in the firmware with Yandex.Kit has not changed. Android is still used version 4.2.2, but the absence of any latter versions of the flagship devices does not occur behind the total shell. All that is not, implemented partially companies Yandex, all that is missing - can be disposed of. Future updates are entirely dependent on the company of the manufacturer of devices, i.e. As soon as the update appears, the new firmware from Yandex will immediately appear. It is necessary to understand that Yandex can not develop firmware from scratch, for this requires completely different resources.
Productivity with Yandex.Kit firmware
Testing the device in a synthetic test showed Antutu Benchmark X that the device began to work even a little faster (if such tests can be considered objective), judging by the points obtained. In real life, obvious brakes were not observed, everything started, moved, moved quickly. During the use of the device, no "drop" / FC application (Force Close is a forced application completion) occurred.
General impressions, conclusions
From the use of Huawei Honor 3 with the firmware Yandex.Quit remained two-way impressions. On the one hand, this firmware turned out to be very stable, but it is possible to consider it a full firmware. I think if you do not go into details, then yes. If you go deep into, then we are offered to use a very young ecosystem from Yandex and in truth, to be the so-called "beta testers", no matter how the shaft it did not sound. Especially considering that Yandex did not create software from scratch for devices, and put his shell on him and supplied it with the necessary services and applications.
In any of these cases, I want to believe that Yandex has a great desire to become a Russian Google, and it will not stop in case of some small failures. Prevent this can be as low selling devices and negative feedback from end users. And to offer to buy a second time such a device (even with good technical characteristics), it will be necessary to try to very much.
Small shortcomings in terms of ergonomics of management, topics, customization Yandex.Quit - their correction is just a matter of time. Let's see how the market and buyers will react to the first trial ball, and later we will draw conclusions.
For the official sale of Huawei Honor 3 with Yandex.Kit firmware arrives on April 8 at a price of 12990 rubles. You can make pre-ordered in the official online store Shop.huawei.ru, THAT IS WHY Address!
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