Episode 30 – Me Want Honeycomb

By | February 8, 2011
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Our big Honeycomb discussion show. Honeycomb is here and we’re going to talk about it.

Show Notes

  • Latest Platform Numbers – 3.9% 1.5, 6.3% 1.6, 89.8% 2.1-2.3, 0.8% 2.3. The .4% increase on that is likely custom ROMS.
  • Android 3.0 Honeycomb Platform Preview and UpdatedSDK Tools
    • UI Framework for larger screens/tablets
    • System bar at bottom of screen for notifications and soft navigation buttons, Action Bar at top of screen for contextual options and in app navigation…replaces hardware buttons
    • High Performance Graphics
    • Support for multicore architectures
    • Rich Multimedia(HTTP Live streaming support, DRM framework, easy media transfer)
    • Support for USB/Bluetooth keyboards and other USB devices such as cameras.
    • New APIs for Bluetooth A2DP and HSP for better audio streaming and headset control.
    • Enterprise enhancements, including encryption
    • Stabilized Video Chat using Google Talk
    • Less intrusive notifications
    • Application Fragments – reusable application pieces which will be backwards compatible to 1.6.
  • Honeycomb emulator shows signs of smartphone support
  • Platform News
    • The Daily released, an iPad only newspaper. Will such an endeavor come to Android?
    • Sprint changing upgrade plan as well. Will now need more expensive plan or longevity to get annual upgrade.
    • Verizon now will throttle top five percent of bandwidth users. Also will downres and transcode multimedia sent across the network.
  • Market Watch
    • Introducing the Android Market website
    • Now supporting in-app payments and the ability to set prices in other currencies
    • Developers see Dollars in Android Improvements
    • AppBrain brings back Fast Web Installer
    • Interviewwith co-founder of AppBrain about the new Google web market – Unique features of AppBrain
      • daily and weekly hot apps
      • personalized app recommendations
      • more app details like change history, referring articles and blogs about the app
      • interesting browse and filter options, like top apps per country, per demographic (age, gender), move2sd enabled, price reduced, etc.
      • filtering of ~50% of apps that are spam or otherwise low-quality
      • sharing of your entire app list
      • connecting with Facebook and Twitter to see what apps your friends have
      • embeddable widgets for your own blog
      • uninstalling apps, setting of wallpapers and pushing URLs to your phone
  • App News
  • Videocam Illusion, offers real-time special effects for video (Market Link)
  • Android Interaction Patterns

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