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Google offers pre-release version of Android 1.5 SDK
TechSpot —
... keyboard, video recording and playback capabilities, and a new home screen framework for developing widgets and populating live folders with custom content. [image] Google's own applications on the platform have also been tweaked to offer a number of usability and performance enhancements. For developers, applications will reportedly be easier to write and much more robust, with better debugging capability and virtual testing. You can see the full list of feature improvements here . No word on when all this will actually be available on existing Android smartphones, or if ...
Google Gives Developers "Early Look" at Android 1.5
Tech-Ex —
... of enhancements, including speech recognition, live folders, on-screen keyboards, and much more (see below for more detail). The new Android version will also use Linux kernel 2.6.27 and incorporate changes to the browser via new Webkit browser engine and Squirrelfish Javascript engine (much the same as went into the latest Safari beta). There was no date given for a release either via a firmware update, or new devices. Here's the full list of changes, via Google: User interface refinements System-wide: ...
Google lists Android 1.5 features
DV Hardware —
... Google has published a list of what's new and improved in Android 1.5, and also an early-look Android 1.5 SDK for developers.
I'm excited to announce that starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. This new version (which will be 1.5) is based on the cupcake branch from the Android Open Source Project. Version 1.5 introduces APIs for features such as soft keyboards, home screen widgets, live folders, and speech recognition. At the developer site, you can download the early-look ...
