Here you go, the Android 1.6 is not far away. According to the Android team, the first device to run with Android 1.6 will be available as early as October. And today, the team announced that the Android 1.6 SDK which is based on the Donut branch from the Android Open Source Project is now available to download.
There are a number of new features and technologies come with the Android 1.6 including frame-work level support for additional screen sizes and resolutions like QVGA and WVGA, new telephony APIs to support CDMA, gestures APIs, a text-to-speech engine, and the ability to integrate with Quick Search Box. You can find the details about this here.
The Android 1.6 SDK requires a new version of Android Development Tools (ADT). Besides the SDK also provide tools to enable you to download updates and additional components like new add-ons or platforms. It’s also said that the applications written for older version of Android will continue to run on devices with Android 1.6.
Check a video of the Android 1.6 highlights below:
Now i guess people are speculating about the new devices running with the Android 1.6. We don’t know yet, but i guess devices that will be announced after October or at least close to October will be likely to run the Android 1.6. One of that i think is the next Motorola Android phone that will be announced in the next few weeks. So we’ll see.
[via: Android Blog]
September 12, 2010 at 1:22 am
I just wrote a really extensive comment and the system couldn’t post it… Do you perhaps know why is this? Anyways not a bad post at all.