Android 1.6 Demo About New Update
Android 1.6 Demo About New Update
25th September , 2009
The release of Android 1.6 will occur in October this year and we covered this here. Today we look at exactly what the new update means to you and us.
The new Android 1.6 updates are split into three areas :
- New platform technologies
- Android market technologies
- New user features
In Android 1.6 is included a quick search box which enables you to search a number of sources such as bookmarked websites and mobile web directly from the home screen. It’s a self learning system.
There is an updated user interface which integrates gallery, camera and video camera functions. Users can easily switch between still and video capture modes.
In Android 1.6 the camera will launch ready for use nearly forty percent faster and there is a thirty percent increase in the time between shots.
There is a new battery indicator which lets you see what services and apps are draining battery power. Settings can then be adjusted to offset this.
Android 1.6 adds screen support that enables applications to be rendered properly on different display resolutions and densities. Developers can also specify the types of screens supported by their application.
Android 1.6 features a multi-lingual speech synthesis engine called Pico. It allows any Android application to "speak" a string of text with an accent that matches the language. The engine supports the following languages: English (American and British accents), French, Italian, German and Spanish. If you're using a T-Mobile G1 or Dream device, you'll need to download the SpeechSynthesis Data Installer from Android Market, which includes the "voices" needed by the text-to-speech engine.
A new gestures framework provides application developers with a framework for creating, storing, loading, and recognizing gestures and associating them with specific actions.
Android 1.6 provides a new accessibility framework. With this framework, developers can create accessibility plugins that respond to user input, such as making a sound when a new window is shown, vibrating when navigating to the top of a list, and providing spoken feedback.
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