Sunday, May 26, 2013

Kobo ARC Firmware Update Fixes Android UI

Screenshot_2013-05-26-21-24-15Kobo has just pushed out a new firmware update for their Arc Tablet PC. It should be available as an automatic notification and 300 MB download. It gives a number of new enhancements and shifts some minor UI elements around.

One of the pleasant new updates to the Kobo Arc firmware is the shifting of the Android toolbar from the bottom of the screen, to the very top. In most file manager, games and other apps, most of their UI and button controls are at the bottom of the screen. This resulted in owners accidentally touching the time, WIFI or other notifications and the secondary menu popping up, breaking immersion. Kobo has also enhanced the animations when you hit the app menu and gesture to your library of apps. It is now way quicker to see your next page of apps and  Kobo has seemed to have stopped the Crashing Tapestries bug.

Finally, we have heard from many people that their discovery bar on the bottom of the screen, which hypes new eBooks and authors did not update properly. You would often see the same books all the time and a small segment never saw updates since they turned it on for the first time. They seemed to have solved this refresh issue too, with the recent firmware update. If you you have not received an update notification on your task bar, you can simply click the settings menu, then about tablet and system updates.

Kobo ARC Firmware Update Fixes Android UI is a post from: E-Reader News

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