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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Android 3.0 Honeycomb Now Available

Android 3.0 Honeycomb Now Available

Google has released Android 3.0 Honeycomb, tailored for the tablet devices. The new tablet oriented interface has stunning graphics and is a marked improvement over previous.

There are Google text and voice search on top left, on bottom left has back, home, and app switch buttons. Bottom right has the time, WiFi signal, and battery. There is also an Apps button on top right that takes you to the traditional list of software, and a plus sign that takes you to a pretty classy view of the panes and a list of widgets you can add, app shortcuts to insert, wallpapers to adjust and the more.

There is a revised calendar look that just like Gmail lets you scroll through items from the home screen, a new browser widget, a revised contact widget and many more.


New user features
  • New tablet-specific UI
  • System Bar, for global status and notifications
  • Action Bar, for application control
  • Five customizable home screens
  • Recent Apps, for easy visual multitasking
  • Redesigned keyboard
  • Improved text selection, copy and paste
  • New connectivity options
  • Updated set of standard apps, with new & improved Browser, Camera, Gallery, Contacts, & Email applications

New developer features
  • New UI framework for creating great tablet apps
  • High-performance 2D and 3D graphics
  • Support for multicore processor architectures
  • Rich multimedia and connectivity
  • Enhancements for enterprise
  • Compatibility with existing apps

Along with it, the SDK has been released too, which you can download here

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