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Android 3.0 Platform Preview and SDK Is Here

Posted by timothy on from the to-enslave-you-with-passion dept.

mikejuk writes "Google has released the Android 3.0 SDK, to allow developers time to create the apps that will run on the flood of tablet devices that should be availalble later in the year. The preview includes improved 2D and 3D graphics, new user interface controls, support for multicore processors, DRM and enterprise security features. It is complete with a 3.0 emulator that you can use to try applications on, but you can't add them to the app market just yet."

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  1. Better Link by DoomHamster · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0-highlights.html

  2. Re:Any chance we'll get rid of Java? by flight666 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Android has it's own VM system, and it's called Dalvik. It has language independence built in so Java source files can be used... they compile to DEX, the Dalvik bytecode format. It does JIT.

    Please tell me that the above was (well-disguised) sarcasm.

  3. Re:This is where Nokia missed the boat by Richard_J_N · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, it wasn't open-source enough. Many of the nasty bugs in the platform related to closed-source components. For example, I wanted to be able to simultaneously run a VoIP call and use the camera. But the camera "helpfully" wouldn't run during a call, because it needed the sound card to make the "click" noise. I tried to fix it, but was told that the camera app was closed source. There was an open-source camera library component...but only if I didn't want auto-focus! Another N900 killer was video-calling. Almost there, but pulse-audio was hogging 30% CPU doing (un-needed) sample-rate conversion - and we couldn't remove it.