Android Ice Cream Sandwich: Hands-on Tour

Android Ice Cream Sandwich: Hands-on Tour

And "well designed for both tablets Android smartphone, the unification of mobile platforms at Google OS for the first time. However, Google Android 4.0 operating system, better known by his nickname delicious" ice cream sandwich "or ICS, is far from being a simple update of the mobile operating system. Ice Cream Sandwich is a complete redesign that includes changes in the operating system from the esoteric geekily (resize flash!) to improve the most superficial level interface (think " most lucid ", the attention of bright surface effects false).


Android vice president of engineering, Hiroshi Lockheimer gave me a deep dive around the new software, and when I left, I was happy to go to one of the most anticipated Android versions to date. Invited me to his Google campus in Mountain View for the driving time with the Samsung Nexus Galaxy, the device is based on ice cream sandwich to be released in late November.

And "this set of subtle touches that make a huge success and change the entire operating system as a whole much greater than the sum of its parts. The team spent an incredible amount of time to finish the little things, little things like changing the opacity of the background reports (it is now clear, so you can see the application of the tray below), as important as re-lock the phone's screen is more like honeycomb (also known as Android 3.0, Google is currently Tablet OS). However, Ice Cream Sandwich is the closest version of a "plus" for Android I've ever seen.

Similarly, the widgets in the mobile home screen and are now resizable, and organized in a new tab in the menu. In order to assess major changes in the Ice Cream Sandwich interface, you should consider what is essentially a union of Android, and compressed interfaces, two very different user interface form factors completely different. The new operating system that makes obsolete all current hardware buttons adorn the Android smartphone, replacing it with virtual keys (such as those introduced in February inHoneycomb).

He worked about three in every five times I tried, and it is very publicy not recognize an employee of Google during the launch of the demo for ice cream sandwich in front of the international press. While the bloody face looks smooth and reliable operation Unlock is (currently) at random. In any case, you can always use a backup or a PIN entry model to unlock the device, so that you and your cup will be unrecognizable and left out in the cold.

What is more exciting than a phone that knows your face? A phone that plays well with others. Using Near Field Communications (NFC) to be able to share content between devices with Ice Cream Sandwich "Do Android." Touch the back of the phone in the back of a compatible laptop, you can change your web pages, and much more Google applications or software developers to allow the transfer in the future.

We should all be more interested in the new NFC that have not yet been announced. Anyway, the website from the phone is not characteristic of Android thatreally beam excites me. I was depressed Lockheimer has not been able to show me BĂ©arn Android in action when I visited – the Galaxy Nexus published another building demonstration units Sandwichthan ice I gave.

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