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diff --git a/docs/html/sdk/android-1.5-highlights.jd b/docs/html/sdk/android-1.5-highlights.jd deleted file mode 100644 index ff64e8c..0000000 --- a/docs/html/sdk/android-1.5-highlights.jd +++ /dev/null @@ -1,208 +0,0 @@ -page.title=Android 1.5 Platform Highlights -@jd:body - -<p> -<em>April 2009</em> -</p> - - -<p>The Android 1.5 platform introduces many new features for users and developers. -The list below provides an overview of the changes. </p> - -<ul> -<li><a href="#ui">User Interface Refinements</a> -<li><a href="#perf">Performance Improvements</a> -<li><a href="#features">New Features</a> -<li><a href="#apis">New APIs and Manifest Elements</a> -</ul> - -<h2 id="ui">User Interface Refinements</h2> -<ul> - <li>System-wide: - <ul> - <li>Refinement of all core UI elements</li> - <li>Animated window transitions (off by default)</li> - <li>Accelerometer-based application rotations</li> - </ul> - </li> - <li>UI polish for: - <ul> - <li>In-call experience</li> - <li>Contacts, Call log, and Favorites</li> - <li>SMS & MMS</li> - <li>Browser</li> - <li>Gmail</li> - <li>Calendar</li> - <li>Email</li> - <li>Camera & Gallery</li> - <li>Application management</li> - </ul> - </li> -</ul> - -<h2 id="perf">Performance Improvements</h2> - -<ul> -<li>Faster Camera start-up and image capture</li> -<li>Much faster acquisition of GPS location (powered by SUPL AGPS)</li> -<li>Smoother page scrolling in Browser</li> -<li>Speedier GMail conversation list scrolling</li> -</ul> - -<h2 id="features">New Features</h2> - -<ul> - <li>On-screen soft keyboard - <ul> - <li>Works in both portrait and landscape orientation</li> - <li>Support for user installation of 3rd party keyboards</li> - <li>User dictionary for custom words</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Home screen - <ul> - <li>Widgets - <ul> - <li>Bundled home screen widgets include: analog clock, calendar, - music player, picture frame, and search</li> - </ul></li> - <li>Live folders</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Camera & Gallery - <ul> - <li>Video recording</li> - <li>Video playback (MPEG-4 & 3GP formats)</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Bluetooth - <ul> - <li>Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles)</li> - <li>Auto-pairing</li> - <li>Improved handsfree experience</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Browser - <ul> - <li>Updated with latest Webkit browser & Squirrelfish Javascript engines</li> - <li>Copy 'n paste in browser</li> - <li>Search within a page</li> - <li>User-selectable text-encoding</li> - <li>UI changes include: - <ul> - <li>Unified Go and Search box</li> - <li>Tabbed bookmarks/history/most-visited screen</li> - </ul> - </li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Contacts - <ul> - <li>Shows user picture for Favorites</li> - <li>Specific date/time stamp for events in call log</li> - <li>One-touch access to a contact card from call log event</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>System -<ul> - <li>New Linux kernel (version 2.6.27)</li> - <li>SD card filesystem auto-checking and repair</li> - <li>SIM Application Toolkit 1.0 </li> -</ul> -</li> - -<li>Google applications (not available in the Android 1.5 System Image that is -included in the Android SDK) - <ul> - <li>View Google Talk friends' status in Contacts, SMS, MMS, GMail, and - Email applications</li> - <li>Batch actions such as archive, delete, and label on Gmail messages</li> - <li>Upload videos to Youtube</li> - <li>Upload photos on Picasa</li> - </ul> -</li> -</ul> - -<h2 id="apis">New APIs and Manifest Elements</h2> - -<ul> -<li>UI framework - <ul> - <li>Framework for easier background/UI thread interaction</li> - <li>New {@link android.widget.SlidingDrawer SlidingDrawer} widget</li> - <li>New {@link android.widget.HorizontalScrollView HorizontalScrollview} widget</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>AppWidget framework - <ul> - <li>APIs for creating secure home screen {@link android.appwidget -AppWidgets}. For information about how to use AppWidgets, see the Developer's -Guide <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html">AppWidgets</a> -documentation. Also see <a -href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-home-screen-widgets-and.html"> -Introducing home screen widgets and the AppWidget -framework</a> on the Android Developer's Blog.</li> - <li>APIs for populating {@link android.provider.LiveFolders Live Folders} - with custom content.</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Media framework - <ul> - <li>Raw audio recording and playback APIs</li> - <li>Interactive MIDI playback engine</li> - <li>{@link android.media.MediaRecorder Video Recording APIs} for developers (3GP format).</li> - <li>Video and photo sharing Intents</li> - <li>Media search Intent</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Input Method framework - <ul> - <li>{@link android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService Input Method - Service} framework</li> - <li>Text-prediction engine</li> - <li>Ability to provide downloadable IMEs to users</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Application-defined hardware requirements - <p>Applications can now use a new element in their manifest files, <a -href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-configuration-element.html"><uses- -configuration></a> to indicate to the Android system what hardware features -they require in order to function properly. For example, an application might -use the element to specify that it requires a physical keyboard or a particular -navigation device, such as a trackball. Prior to installing the application, the -Android system checks the attributes defined for the -<code><uses-configuration></code> element and allows the installation to -continue only if the required hardware is present.</p> -</li> - -<li>Speech recognition framework - <ul> - <li>Support for using speech recognition libraries via Intent. See {@link -android.speech.RecognizerIntent RecognizerIntent}.</li> - </ul> -</li> - -<li>Miscellaneous API additions - <ul> - <li>LocationManager - Applications can get location change updates via - Intent</li> - <li>WebView - Touch start/end/move/cancel DOM event support</li> - <li>Redesigned {@link android.hardware.SensorManager Sensor Manager - APIs}</li> - <li>GLSurfaceView - convenience framework for creating OpenGL - applications</li> - <li>Broadcast Intent for app update install succeeded - for smoother app - upgrade experience</li> - </ul> -</li> -</ul> |