Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.
Before the Android 1.5 Cupcake Update is released to ALL Android Users, we already have word on the new features of Android 2.0 ‘Donut’. There are some neat new features but nothing especially game changing…yet. What piques our interest and makes incredible sense for a search-based company like Google is Donut’s universal search, aptly dubbed ‘Android Search’. Android Search will allow you to search online and locally on the device (contacts, music, calendars, etc).
Also, there’s a new text-to-speech API that’ll allow developers to take advantage of voice search-esque implementation for their application. What’s even cooler is new support for handwriting gestures–as we see it, you can draw out any letter on the touchscreen and it’ll automatically jump to that section in whatever list you’re in. So for example, in the music app you can handwrite ‘e’ on the touchscreen and you’ll be brought to the corresponding ‘e’ section. That new feature should be incredibly useful.
We’re growing more and more excited about Android 2.0 by the day and we’re hoping/praying/begging that T-Mobile will handle the release of Donut a lot better than they did Cupcake. Who’s with us?
Android History Updates:
A cupcake was placed beside Android at Googleplex to commemorate the 1.5 release of Android.Although Android is an open-source product, some development has been continuing in a private development branch. In order to bring this software into public view, a read-only mirror branch has been created, known as cupcake. Cupcake is commonly misunderstood as the title of an actual update, but as stated on Google’s development website: “cupcake is still very much a work in progress. It is a development branch, not a release.” Notable changes to the Android software that will be introduced in cupcake include changes to the download manager, the framework, Bluetooth, the system software, radio and telephony, developer tools, the build system and several applications, as well as a number of bug fixes.
On 30 April 2009, the official 1.5 update for Android was released. There are several new features and UI updates included in the 1.5 update:
Ability to record and watch videos with the camcorder mode
Uploading videos to YouTube and pictures to Picasa directly from the phone
A new soft keyboard with an “Autocomplete” feature
Ability to automatically connect to a Bluetooth headset within a certain distance
New widgets and folders that can populate the desktop
Animations between screens
Expanded ability of Copy and paste to include web pages
Announcing the Google Android 2, well this isn’t its official name, according to reports from Boygenius.com it’s called the HTC Magic.
After the success of the Google Android (G1) which Mobilesplease stocks in black and white, we can’t wait for the arrival of this ‘magic’ phone as true android lovers. The HTC handset is said to be available exclusively to the Vodafone network alike to the G1 which is exclusive to T-mobile.
Said to feature a 3.2 inch QVGA touch screen, features a trackball for easy navigation and will also feature a 3.2 mega pixel camera, Wifi and GPS connectivity. The magic will also feature the Android optimised Web-kit browser which features a one touch Google search bar, Google maps & as well as You Tube. One of the most noticable differences to the G1 is the missing full QWERTY keyboard?
Available exclusively to Vodafone in spring the device is rumoured to available in white, we will keep you posted when we hear more!
Android 2 is a shoot ‘em up maze video game written by Costa Panayi and published by Vortex Software in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum and in 1985 for the Amstrad CPC.[1]
It is the sequel to Android 1: The Reactor Run, released earlier in 1983