Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
Introducing Chrome for Android Beta
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Speed
Browse fast
Pages load in a snap and hardware-accelerated page rendering lets you fly through long pages. Experience the mobile web, Chrome fast.
Search fast
Search and navigate from the same box. Choose from results that appear as you type. The top search result loads in the background, available instantly.
Simplicity
Tabs reimagined
Open unlimited tabs on your phone or tablet. To switch between tabs, flip through them on your phone the way you would fan a deck of cards, or swipe from edge to edge.
Easy navigation
Navigate with a simple, streamlined browser. Link Preview zooms in on links to make selecting the right link easier. Use Find in Page to locate specific words and scroll to see each match.
Signing in
Sign in to Chrome to bring your open tabs, bookmarks and omnibox data from your computer to your phone or tablet. That way, you have your Chrome, on all of your devices.
Chrome for Android is available, initially in Beta, on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.
Google Announces new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Friday, October 21, 2011
After months of anticipation and leaked software screen shots, Google finally unveiled Android 4.0, also known as “Ice Cream Sandwich,” the latest update to the search giant’s Android mobile platform.
The new operating system should eventually merge Android’s tablet OS (version 3.0, aka Honeycomb) with the platform’s smartphone OS (version 2.3, aka Gingerbread). Dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, the unified OS isn’t an incremental update, but rather a complete OS makeover with changes that range from the elimination of physical navigation buttons to the creation of an entirely new font, “Roboto,” for user interface menus.
Android 4.0 introduces many new capabilities and APIs. Here are some highlights:
Unified UI toolkit: A single set of UI components, styles, and capabilities for phones, tablets, and other devices.
The new operating system should eventually merge Android’s tablet OS (version 3.0, aka Honeycomb) with the platform’s smartphone OS (version 2.3, aka Gingerbread). Dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, the unified OS isn’t an incremental update, but rather a complete OS makeover with changes that range from the elimination of physical navigation buttons to the creation of an entirely new font, “Roboto,” for user interface menus.
Unified UI toolkit: A single set of UI components, styles, and capabilities for phones, tablets, and other devices.
Rich communication and sharing: New social and calendar APIs, Android Beam for NFC-based instant sharing, Wi-Fi Direct support, Bluetooth Health Device Profile support.
Deep interactivity and customization: Improved notifications, lockscreen with camera and music controls, and improved app management in the launcher.
New graphics, camera, and media capabilities: Image and video effects, precise camera metering and face detection, new media codecs and containers.
Interface and input: Hardware-accelerated 2D drawing, new grid-based layout, improved soft keyboard, spell-checker API, stylus input support, and better mouse support.
Improved accessibility: New accessibility APIs and text-to-speech APIs for writing new engines.
Enhancements for enterprise: Keychain and VPN APIs for managing credentials and connections, a new administrator policy for disabling the camera.
For a complete overview of what’s new for users and developers, please read the Android 4.0 Platform Highlights.
Google / Samsung introduce Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - October 19, 2011 Hong Kong
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