Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Android Developer Outlook for Ice Cream Sandwich

Android Developer Outlook for Ice Cream Sandwich

Once it is in the spring at the Google I / O was running just a bit fuzzy, that the next version of Android Ice Cream Sandwich on tablets and smartphones, Google now allows the developer blog published the first details. Although primarily aimed at developers, but a small detail also applies to users: There will be an action bar. This control had a similar toolbar with Honeycomb Google introduced for Tablets.


Thus, in one ActionBar directly accessible via the menu displayed and distributed elements.
Image: Google will be shown at The ActionBar Tablets at the top of the screen and can replace two phone controls, but they are rarely used on tablets: the program menu and any tabs (tab widget). Smartphones on the divides Ice Cream Sandwich ActionBar again, some of the items appears at the top of the screen (below the status line), the rest migrated to the program menu. Since the space on phone display is smaller than on tablets, Google keeps to the developers, and to micro-manage the ActionBar representation in the menu for each item provide an icon.

Mostly it's in the blog entry, but to the extent of fragment, a possibility that the same controls on tablets and smartphones reuse in different arrangements, as well as support various display sizes with respect to the Android 3.2 introduced improvements.

Currently running just under 1 percent of Google's Android devices under 3.2, over 95 percent use Android 2.1 to 2.3. So that developers can still write a smartphone app that uses fragment, Google has released a Compatibility Package, which provides part of the Android-3-API also from Android 1.6. However, just missing the ActionBar ...

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