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diff --git a/docs/html/sdk/android-1.6.jd b/docs/html/sdk/android-1.6.jd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29dceec --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/sdk/android-1.6.jd @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +page.title=Android 1.6 Version Notes + +@jd:body + +<p> +<em>Date:</em> September 2009<br /> +<em>API Level:</em> <strong>4</strong></p> + + +<p>This document provides version notes for the Android 1.6 system image included in the SDK. </p> + +<ul> +<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a> +<li><a href="#features">New Features</a> +<li><a href="#apps">Built-in Applications</a> +<li><a href="#locs">Locales</a> +<li><a href="#api-changes">API Changes</a> +</ul> + +<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> + +<p>The Android 1.6 system delivered in the SDK (as library and system image) is +the development counterpart to the Android 1.6 production system image, +deployable to Android-powered handsets starting September 2009. The system is fully +compliant and includes no external libraries.</p> + +<p>The Android 1.6 system delivers an updated version of the framework +API. As with previous versions, the Android 1.6 API +is assigned an integer identifier — <strong>4</strong> — that is +stored in the system itself. This identifier, called the "API Level", allows the +system to correctly determine whether an application is compatible with +the system, prior to installing the application. </p> + +<p>For more information about how to use API Level, see the <a +href="{@docRoot}guide/developing/">API Levels</a> document. </p> + +<h2 id="features">New Features</h2> + +<p>For a list of new system features, see the <a +href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.6-highlights.html">Android 1.6 Platform +Highlights</a> document.</p> + +<h2 id="apps">Built-in Applications</h2> + +<p>The system image includes these built-in applications:</p> + <ul> + <li>Alarm Clock</li> + <li>Browser</li> + <li>Calculator</li> + <li>Camcorder</li> + <li>Camera</li> + <li>Contacts</li> + <li>Custom Locale (developer app)</li> + <li>Dev Tools (developer app)</li> + <li>Dialer</li> + <li>Email</li> + <li>Gallery</li> + <li>Gestures Builder</li> + <li>IME for Japanese text input</li> + <li>Messaging</li> + <li>Music</li> + <li>Settings</li> + <li>Spare Parts (developer app)</li> + </ul> + +<h2 id="locs">Locales</h2> + +<p>The system image provides a variety of built-in locales. In some cases, +region-specific strings are available for the locales. In other cases, +a default version of the language is used. The languages that will be +available in the Android 1.6 system image are listed below (with +<em>language</em>_<em>country/region</em> locale descriptor).</p> + +<table style="border:0;"> +<tr> +<td style="border:0"> +<ul style="margin-bottom:0;"> +<li>Arabic, Egypt (ar_EG)</li> +<li>Arabic, Israel (ar_IL)</li> +<li>Bulgarian, Bulgaria (bg_BG)</li> +<li>Chinese, PRC (zh_CN)</li> +<li>Chinese, Taiwan (zh_TW)</li> +<li>Croatian, Croatia (hr_HR)</li> +<li>Czech, Czech Republic (cs_CZ)</li> +<li>Danish, Denmark (da_DK)</li> +<li>Dutch, Netherlands (nl_NL)</li> +<li>Dutch, Belgium (nl_BE)</li> +<li>English, US (en_US)</li> +<li>English, Britain (en_GB)</li> +<li>English, Canada (en_CA)</li> +<li>English, Australia (en_AU)</li> +<li>English, India (en_IN)</li> +<li>English, Ireland (en_IE)</li> +<li>English, New Zealand (en_NZ)</li> +<li>English, Singapore (en_SG)</li> +<li>English, South Africa (en_ZA)</li> +<li>Finnish, Finland (fi_FI)</li> +<li>French, France (fr_FR)</li> +<li>French, Belgium (fr_BE)</li> +<li>French, Canada (fr_CA)</li> +<li>French, Switzerland (fr_CH)</li> +<li>German, Germany (de_DE)</li> +<li>German, Austria (de_AT)</li> +<li>German, Switzerland (de_CH)</li> +<li>German, Liechtenstein (de_LI)</li> +</ul> +</td> +<td style="border:0;padding-left:5em;"> +<ul style="margin-bottom:0;"> +<li>Greek, Greece (el_GR)</li> +<li>Hindi, India (hi_IN)</li> +<li>Hungarian, Hungary (hu_HU)</li> +<li>Indonesian, Indonesia (id_ID)</li> +<li>Italian, Italy (it_IT)</li> +<li>Italian, Switzerland (it_CH)</li> +<li>Japanese, Japan (ja_JP)</li> +<li>Korean, Korea (ko_KR)</li> +<li>Latvian, Latvia (lv_LV)</li> +<li>Lithuanian, Lithuania (lt_LT)</li> +<li>Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Norway (nb_NO)</li> +<li>Polish, Poland (pl_PL)</li> +<li>Portuguese, Brazil (pt_BR)</li> +<li>Portuguese, Portugal (pt_PT)</li> +<li>Romanian, Romania (ro_RO)</li> +<li>Russian, Russia (ru_RU)</li> +<li>Serbian, Serbia (sr_RS)</li> +<li>Slovak, Slovakia (sk_SK)</li> +<li>Slovenian, Slovenia (sl_SI)</li> +<li>Spanish, Spain (es_ES)</li> +<li>Spanish, US (es_US)</li> +<li>Swedish, Sweden (sv_SE)</li> +<li>Thai, Thailand (th_TH)</li> +<li>Tagalog, Philippines (tl_PH)</li> +<li>Turkish, Turkey (tr_TR)</li> +<li>Ukranian, Ukrania (uk_UA)</li> +<li>Vietnamese, Vietnam (vi_VN)</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>Localized UI strings match the locales that are displayable in +the emulator, accessible through the device Settings application.</p> + +<h2 id="api-changes">API Changes</h2> + +<h3 style="padding-top:0">Overview</h3> + +<ul> + +<li>Search framework</li> + <ul> + <li>Applications can now expose relevant content to users as search suggestions in the Quick Search Box, a new device-wide search capability that is accessible from the home screen. To support this, the search framework adds new attributes to the searchable metadata file. For complete information, see the {@link android.app.SearchManager SearchManager} documentation.</li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Accessibility framework</li> + <ul> + <li>New {@link android.view.accessibility android.accessibility} package +that includes classes for capturing accessibility events and forwarding them to +an {@link android.accessibilityservice AccessibilityService} handler. </li> + <li>New {@link android.accessibilityservice AccessibilityService} package +that lets your application track user events and provide visual, audible, or +haptic feedback to the user. </li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Gestures</li> + <ul> + <li>New {@link android.gesture gesture} API for creating, recognizing, +loading, and saving gestures.</li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Text-to-speech</li> + <ul> + <li>New package {@link android.speech.tts android.speech.tts} provides +classes for synthesizing speech from text, for immediate playback or to create a +sound file.</li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Permissions</li> + <ul> + + <li>New permissions for +{@link android.Manifest.permission#CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE}, +{@link android.Manifest.permission#INSTALL_LOCATION_PROVIDER INSTALL_LOCATION_PROVIDER}, +{@link android.Manifest.permission#READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS READ_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS}, +{@link android.Manifest.permission#WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, and +{@link android.Manifest.permission#WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS}.</li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Graphics</li> + <ul> + <li>Classes in {@link android.graphics android.graphics} now support scaling +for different screen densities.</li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Telephony</li> + <ul> + <li>New {@link android.telephony.SmsManager SmsManager} and other classes +for sending and receiving SMS messages.</li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Utilities</li> + <ul> + <li>New {@link android.util.DisplayMetrics DisplayMetrics} fields for +determining the density of the current device screen.</li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Application-defined support for various screen densities</li> + <p>Applications can now use a new element in their manifest files, <a +href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/supports-screen-element.html"><supports- +screen></a> to indicate to the specific screen resolutions/densities that +they are designed to support. When the application is installed on a device +whose screen is not explicitly supported by the application, the system +runs the application in Compatibility Mode, where possible. </p> +</li> +</ul> + +<h3 id="api-diff">API Change Details</h3> + +<p>For a detailed view of API changes in this platform (API Level 4), see the <a +href="{@docRoot}sdk/api_diff/4/changes.html">API Differences Report</a>.</p> + + + + + + |