Nochmal eine Information zum kommenden Android Update

SDK 1.5 - Update voraussichtlich zum Erscheinen des HTC Magic / G2 - Ab Mai !

April 2009

The Android 1.5 platform introduces many new features for users and developers. The list below provides an overview of the changes.
User interface refinements

* System-wide:
o Refinement of all core UI elements
o Animated window transitions (off by default)
o Accelerometer-based application rotations
* UI polish for:
o In-call experience
o Contacts, Call log, and Favorites
o SMS & MMS
o Browser
o Gmail
o Calendar
o Email
o Camera & Gallery
o Application management

Performance improvements

* Faster Camera start-up and image capture
* Much faster acquisition of GPS location (powered by SUPL AGPS)
* Smoother page scrolling in Browser
* Speedier GMail conversation list scrolling

New features

* On-screen soft keyboard
o Works in both portrait and landscape orientation
o Support for user installation of 3rd party keyboards
o User dictionary for custom words
* Home screen
o Widgets
+ Bundled home screen widgets include: analog clock, calendar, music player, picture frame, and search
o Live folders
* Camera & Gallery
o Video recording
o Video playback (MPEG-4 & 3GP formats)
* Bluetooth
o Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles)
o Auto-pairing
o Improved handsfree experience
* Browser
o Updated with latest Webkit browser & Squirrelfish Javascript engines
o Copy ‘n paste in browser
o Search within a page
o User-selectable text-encoding
o UI changes include:
+ Unified Go and Search box
+ Tabbed bookmarks/history/most-visited screen
* Contacts
o Shows user picture for Favorites
o Specific date/time stamp for events in call log
o One-touch access to a contact card from call log event
* System
o New Linux kernel (version 2.6.27)
o SD card filesystem auto-checking and repair
o SIM Application Toolkit 1.0
* Google applications
o View Google Talk friends’ status in Contacts, SMS, MMS, GMail, and Email applications
o Batch actions such as archive, delete, and label on Gmail messages
o Upload videos to Youtube
o Upload photos on Picasa

http://developer.android.com/sdk/preview/

Die finale Version des Android 1.5 SDKs soll Ende April 2009 zur Verfügung stehen. Dann dürfte es auch nicht mehr allzu lang dauern, bis Google die neue Version des Betriebssystems in Deutschland veröffentlicht
(http://developer.android.com/sdk/preview/features.html)

- ROADMAP 2009 -

Q1 2009

Input method framework (IMF)

This feature will enable support for input methods other than physical keyboards, for example soft keyboards. IMF will also enable application developers to provide IME (see below) applications based on the framework.

Input method engines (IME)

IME will support soft keyboards, a dictionary of suggestions, and a suggestion algorithm. The Android platform may contain a few reference IMEs, and developers can provide IME applications through the Android Market.

Beyond Q1 2009

Support for additional types of displays:

Support for WVGA and QVGA, in addition to the currently supported HVGA display.

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Das HTC Magic aka G2 wird von Vodafone vertrieben und kommt ohne Hardware-Tastatur daher, da es zur Veröffentlichung schon das Cupcake Image installiert hat.
Infos zum G2:
www.htc.com
www.htc-magic.de

War es nützlich ?! Dann Spenden für die Kaffeekasse !