Android 2.0 platforms and its advancement to Android 2.2 FroYo
Android 2.0 platform release was a breakthrough to Android-powered handsets starting in November 2009. Many new features and technologies were introduces for users and developers along with Android framework API.
New features includes quick contact for android, multiple accounts, messaging search, email combined inbox and camera modes. New platform technologies are media framework, Bluetooth 2.1 andk new framework APIs’.
The system image included in the downloadable platform provides a variety of built-in locales. Some cases, region-specific strings are available for the locales. In other cases, a default version of the language is used.
Followed by Android 2.1 is a minor platform release utilizable to Android-powered handsets starting in January 2010. This release includes new API changes and bug fixes. Android 2.1 platforms was released with following built in features-
- Alarm Clock
- Browser
- Calculator
- Camera
- Contacts
- Custom Locale (developer app)
- Dev Tools (developer app)
- Gallery
- IMEs for Japanese, Chinese, and Latin text input
- Messaging
- Music
- Phone
- Settings
- Spare Parts (developer app)
Final version of Android is still in under shadow. Recently, news has spread out all over world that Google is going to release its latest Android 2.2 or Android 2.2 FroYo in May. Some websites and blogs also spotted that Android is being tested on the web.
Very recently it is also observed that the newest operating system from Google has been installed on at least a few handsets and is being tested on the mobile web. It is known from some n blogs that Android 2.2 will focus more on enhancing the overall performance of the system rather than introduce more features.
There is a possibility to see a code in Android 2.2 comes from the JIT Compiler for Android’s Dalvik VM. The implementation of the code into Android, it streamlines the performance of the operating system and provides up to a 250% increase in performance.
In terms of features, the update promises mostly background tweaks and bug fixes, but does include the ability to flash the trackball on the Nexus One different colours and support for Flash Player 10.1. M radio, freed up RAM for use by customers, and OpenGL ES 2.0 to boost graphics performance will be included in new Android 2.2. There are still plenty of secrets” plenty of secrets” stated by Google. So it is better to wait for more expected and unexpected surprise.
