By: iPadfanzz.blogspot.com, May 11, 2011
Google has finally released the next version of Android at the Google I/O conference, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, the followup to the current tablet-only Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) operating system.
Ice Cream Sandwich brings all the cool things that you love about Honeycomb to mobile phones. This means mobile phones will get in on the cool sliding widgets, holographic user interface, and the handy task launcher.
Ice Cream Sandwich will maintain a "one OS that runs everywhere" – across mobiles, tablets, and notebooks. It will allow developers to create applications for both kinds of devices in one motion, and thus create new opportunities for them.
The Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android will "all be open source," including APIs for face-tracking and other new features.
At the same time, Google also announced Android Honeycomb 3.1, Google’s tablet OS, which will be available for XOOM 3G devices from Verizon over the next few weeks. Android Honeycomb 3.1 includes a more powerful task handler that allows immediate shutdown of idle tasks.
Ice Cream Sandwich is expected to arrive later this year.
Google has finally released the next version of Android at the Google I/O conference, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich, the followup to the current tablet-only Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) operating system.
Ice Cream Sandwich brings all the cool things that you love about Honeycomb to mobile phones. This means mobile phones will get in on the cool sliding widgets, holographic user interface, and the handy task launcher.
Ice Cream Sandwich will maintain a "one OS that runs everywhere" – across mobiles, tablets, and notebooks. It will allow developers to create applications for both kinds of devices in one motion, and thus create new opportunities for them.
The Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android will "all be open source," including APIs for face-tracking and other new features.
At the same time, Google also announced Android Honeycomb 3.1, Google’s tablet OS, which will be available for XOOM 3G devices from Verizon over the next few weeks. Android Honeycomb 3.1 includes a more powerful task handler that allows immediate shutdown of idle tasks.
Ice Cream Sandwich is expected to arrive later this year.
On the global level, a rising number of users are adopting the Android platform and in the coming period it is going to get bigger. At the moment there are 200,000 Android apps in the Android market.
