The Android 3. It comes with many more features and easier navigation. The user is able to quick access up to five home pages with one touch of the button. The new update device is able to support more input devices and it has more USB connectors.
Some of the standard applications work even better with the new and improved larger screen. Applications such as the Calendar, the Browser and the Gallery are better optimized. Online web pages can be saved for offline browsing. Your email address will not be published. I have searched for a contemporary recipe for a similar rolled gingerbread cookie for reference, and couldn't find one.
The closest I could find is someone creating a slightly curved gingerbread house roof by allowing it to cool while draped over a swooped cardboard structure. Maybe rolled gingerbread cookies only stands up on paper and not in reality. Julia Baird. After I made the dough, that's when things started to go wrong You've probably noticed that the recipe is called Roll Gingerbread, and the historic recipe instructs us to "bake it gently; when hot cut it in squares, and while warm roll it over a stick, like wafers, till cold".
But yet, my gingerbread cookies are flat squares. What happened? I can think of a short list of reasons why this recipe may have not behaved as expected, and solving mysteries such as this one is part of the joy of working from historic recipes. Many Android developers have already discontinued support for Gingerbread in their apps. This helps them build better apps that make use of the newer capabilities of the Android platform.
For us, the situation is the same. By making this change, we will be able to provide a more robust collection of tools for Android developers with greater speed.
Redesigned keyboard for larger screen, keys are reshaped and repositioned and new keys added such as Tab key. Improvement to text selection, copy and paste; very close to what we do in computer. New support for Bluetooth tethering — you can connect more types of devices.
Improved browser for efficient browsing and better browsing experience using the large screen — some of the new features are:. New UI Framework — to fragment and combine activities in different ways to create richer and more interactive applications. Action Bar at the top of the screen can be customized by developers according to application. A new builder class to create notifications that include large and small icons, title, a priority flag, and any properties already available in previous versions.
Developers can use mulitiselect, clipboard and drag and drop features to offer users more enjoyable gaming experience. Support for multicore processor architectures — support symmetric mulitprocessing in multicore environments, even an application designed for single core environment will enjoy the performance boost.
Pluggable DRM framework — for applications to manage protected content, Android 3. Device administration applications can include new types of policies, such as policies for encrypted storage, password expiration, password history, and requirement of complex characters for passwords. Release: 10 May Touching the home button in system bar will return you to most frequently used home screen. Support for more varieties of input devices such as keyboards, mouse, trackballs, game controllers and accessories such as digital cameras musical instrument, kiosks and card readers.
Recent Apps list is expandable to include larger number of apps. The list will have all the apps in use and recently used apps. New high performance Wi-Fi lock added for uninterrupted connectivity even when the device screen is off. This will be useful for streaming long duration music, video and voice services.
This will be used by the browser when communicating with the networks. Other Apps also may use this. Improved Browser app — new features added and UI improved. Users can use it to view thumbnails of open tabs, to close the active tabs, access overflow menu for instant access to settings and many other.
Contacts app allows full text search making it quicker to locate contacts and the results are shown from all the fields stored in the contact. This is done to conserve battery power and minimize data usage.
Compatible Devices:. Wi-Fi hotspot functionality can connect 6 devices. In the sense, you can use Android 2. It also supports for NFC Near Field Communication which is a high speed data communication mechanism operates in high frequency within a short range 10 cm. In addition to standard voice calling, Android 2. It breaks the boundary of regionalist concept and flies in the global domain.
Power Management is one the critical tasks in these kind of Mobile operating systems. Even if you have all these fancy features, if the battery life of the device is couple of hours, then there is no use in the added features.
Here in 2. There were four updates issued so far to Android 2. The notable upgrade is the improvement for NFC, now applications can interact with more types of tags.
NFC communication relies on wireless technology in the device hardware, and is not present in all Android devices. Improvement is made to API for developers to request filtering on Android Market, so that their applications are not discoverable to users whose devices do not support NFC. There are some improvements on Bluetooth as well for non-secure socket connections.
There are some more changes for developers in graphics, media and speech.
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