Image Gallery 1 Images. Share Share Tweet Email. Cameron Summerson Articles Published. We'll also have to wait and see how this will affect the Ice Cream Sandwich rollout -- with Android updates coming this fast we're finding it a bit hard to believe that Google will be able to stick to its upgrade promises , but we're all for being proven wrong.
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Health Energy Environment. HTC's Flyer tablet may finally be getting its long-awaited update to Android 3. HTC's Flyer tablet is soon to be receiving the Android update it so heartily deserves after screenshots surfaced showing it running the tablet-specific version of Android -- Honeycomb 3.
On the surface, the HTC Flyer wasn't a bad piece of kit at all -- its 7-inch size fit snugly in our hands and we even found ourselves enjoying using its stylus. Sadly though, it was running Android 2. To make it easier for users to manage and organize files, developers can now add drag-and-drop interaction through a DragEvent framework.
The platform includes a flexible new animation framework that lets developers easily animate the properties of UI elements such as Views, Widgets, Fragments, Drawables, or any arbitrary object.
Animations can create fades or movement between states, loop an animated image or an existing animation, change colors, and much more. Adding animation to UI elements can add visual interest to an application and refine the user experience, to keep users engaged.
Developers can control how hardware-acceleration is applied at every level, from enabling it globally in an application to enabling it in specific Activities and Views inside the application. Renderscript is a runtime 3D framework that provides both an API for building 3D scenes as well as a special, platform-independent shader language for maximum performance.
Using Renderscript, you can accelerate graphics operations and data processing. Renderscript is an ideal way to create high-performance 3D effects for applications, wallpapers, carousels, and more. A variety of changes in the Dalvik VM, Bionic library, and elsewhere add support for symmetric multiprocessing in multicore environments. These optimizations can benefit all applications, even those that are single-threaded.
For example, with two active cores, a single-threaded application might still see a performance boost if the Dalvik garbage collector runs on the second core. The system will arrange for this automatically. The media framework supports most of the HTTP Live streaming specification, including adaptive bit rate. For application developers, the framework API offers an consistent, unified API that simplifies the management of protected content, regardless of the underlying DRM engines.
Developers can build on this support, creating applications that let users create or manage media files that they may want to transfer or share across devices.
The platform offers new connectivity that developers can build on. For example, a music application can check connectivity and status and let the user know that music is playing through a stereo headset.
Applications can also register to receive system broadcasts of pre-defined vendor-specific AT commands, such as Platronics Xevent. For example, an application could receive broadcasts that indicate a connected device's battery level and could notify the user or take other action as needed. Applications can also take advantage of the platform's new support for full keyboards connected by USB or Bluetooth. In Android 3. Existing applications can seamlessly participate in the new holographic UI theme without code changes, by adding a single attribute in their manifest files.
The platform emulates the Menu key, which is replaced by the overflow menu in the Action Bar in the new UI.
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