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Breaking news: Android 2.3 Gingerbread overview
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Monday December 6, 2010
Breaking news tutorials
Monday December 6, 2010
The
Android 2.3 Official Video
hit YouTube today. While it's targeted at Android developers, a lot of the details shared will have consumer impact on the next generation of Android devices. We read between the lines to disseminate what these Android developer environment improvements mean to consumers.Show Notes
- Check out the Official Google Blog posting Introducing Nexus S with Gingerbread
Concurrent Garbage Collection
Basically cleans up and optimizes processes to:
- Minimize application pauses (AKA app hang)
- Smooth animations
- Increase overall responsiveness
Improved Event Processing
Basically alters the way events like key presses are handled to:
- Lower overall CPU usage
- Speed up dispatch
Robust Native Environment
To improve game and other high-demand app development, the Android developer environment has been updated to allow access to:
- Input and sensor events
- Audio
- OpenGL ES
- Assets
Gyroscope Sensor
Where supported by hardware, Gingerbread allows for a gyroscope. Gyroscopes allow for much more refined spatial control. For an example of what this could mean, check out our Tour and How To for the iPhone 4 episode: The gyroscope in the iPhone 4.
Open Media Formats and Tools
Further encouraging development for the Android platform, Gingerbread includes developer-centric improvements like:
- VP8 and WebM
- AAC and AMR wideband encoding
- New audio effects such as reverb, headphone virtualization and bass-boost
New Forms of Communication
Access to multiple cameras
- This would open up the possibility of two-way video communication like FaceTime on the iPhone 4, covered in this tutorial
- Internet telephony over SIP
- This means Internet calls from Android to any SIP enabled device. SIP is the standard for VoIP phone systems.
Near Field Communication (NFC)
- In devices with NFC capability, this would mean tap to interact with tags, posters, maps and more... including tap to pay.
Concurrent Garbage Collection
Basically cleans up and optimizes processes to:
- Minimize application pauses (AKA app hang)
- Smooth animations
- Increase overall responsiveness
Improved Event Processing
Basically alters the way events like key presses are handled to:
- Lower overall CPU usage
- Speed up dispatch
Robust Native Environment
To improve game and other high-demand app development, the Android developer environment has been updated to allow access to:
- Input and sensor events
- Audio
- OpenGL ES
- Assets
Gyroscope Sensor
Where supported by hardware, Gingerbread allows for a gyroscope. Gyroscopes allow for much more refined spatial control. For an example of what this could mean, check out our Tour and How To for the iPhone 4 episode: The gyroscope in the iPhone 4.
Open Media Formats and Tools
Further encouraging development for the Android platform, Gingerbread includes developer-centric improvements like:
- VP8 and WebM
- AAC and AMR wideband encoding
- New audio effects such as reverb, headphone virtualization and bass-boost
New Forms of Communication
Access to multiple cameras
- This would open up the possibility of two-way video communication like FaceTime on the iPhone 4, covered in this tutorial
- Internet telephony over SIP
- This means Internet calls from Android to any SIP enabled device. SIP is the standard for VoIP phone systems.
Near Field Communication (NFC)
- In devices with NFC capability, this would mean tap to interact with tags, posters, maps and more... including tap to pay.
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