Fresh New Design
Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been completely redesigned and accommodates well for larger screen devices such as tablets. Building on one of Android’s powerful features of multi-tasking; but enhancing on rich notifications, Home screen customization, widgets, tapping into rich graphics and media capabilities of the OS. Key improvements include:
- System Bar: system-wide access quick access to notifications and system status.
- Action Bar: within apps user will have access to contextual options, navigation, widgets, or other types of content.
- Customizable Home Screen: default of 5 customizable home screens. Each screen offers a large grid that maintains spatial arrangement in all orientations as well as a Search box for universal search of apps, contacts, media files, web content, and more.
- Recent Apps: shows a list of recently accessed apps to quickly jump between apps.
- Redesigned keyboard: reshaped and repositioned for improved targeting and formatting for larger screen for quick text entry.
- Improved Copy & Paste: press and hold text to pull sliders enable more accurate text selection. Especially useful for devices without trackball input.
- New Connection Options: connect to other devices like digital cameras without USB mounting or attach USB and Bluetooth keyboards.
- Updated Core Apps: Browser, Camera and Gallery, Contacts and Email are improved for more screen real estate.
- Browser includes tabbed browsing and incognito window for trackless web browsing.
- Camera and Gallery; the Camera app offers quick access to exposure, focus, flash, zoom, front-facing camera and Gallery app views albums in full screen.
- Contacts improved formatting of international phone numbers and improved presentation of contacts in card-like format.
- Email app uses new two-pane UI. The app lets users select one or more messages, then select an action from the Action Bar, such as moving them to a folder. Users can sync attachments for later viewing and keep track of email using a home screen Widget.
Check out the preview video of Android 3.0 Honeycomb in Action:
Screenshots of Android 3.0 Honeycomb:
[Source Android Developers Blog via Android 3.0 Platform Highlights]
This content was originally posted at AndroidTapp.com
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