I want to thank everyone who got involved for their work and patience. I hope that the speedy process will lead to more interactivity during the code reviews. I realize nevertheless that time differences around the world can make real-time communication a challenge. That means that those changes were either accepted or rejected after being reviewed.
That means that an average of 20 changes have been accepted through the Android Open-Source Project into the public git repositories every business day over those last 2 months. Android-building is meant to specifically discuss build issues be sure to search the archives thoroughly before posting. This covers the Eclipse plug-in and the emulator , and more than a dozen other SDK-related tools.
Once a platform version is open-sourced, all improvements to the Compatibility Test Suite related to that version are made directly to the open-source tree. In fact, release 2 of the 2. This is now true for Froyo as well, and we are now accepting contributions into the Froyo branch of the CTS project.
I believe that those last two aspects are important to application developers. With Android 2. And, while I haven't tested this since I'm using the same phone and I don't think any apps support the API yet , apps can back up your data, so when you move to a new phone, all of your inner-app data will show up with the fresh install. Check the box, and you're sharing your 3G connection over Wi-Fi with any device you want. Security is limited to WPA2, unfortunately, making integration with older devices difficult.
It also works while charging, so why even bother with tethering? The official Twitter app is built-in, much like Facebook has been since Android 2. The setup is automagical, though if it screws up the pairing—say if somebody's Twitter handle gets assigned to the wrong person—good luck fixing it.
Still, the effect is charming, especially if a contact is as deeply tied into Google as you are, since every avenue by which you could possibly want to contact them is at your fingertips. On the flip side, Google's contact management within Gmail is still pretty horrendous.
Accounts are improved in a few ways. For me, the most important is that now you can see calendars from every Google account on the phone, whereas before only calendars from one primary account synced. But serious corporate users get some of the love too, since Exchange calendars work now as well.
I didn't test any of the Exchange administrator features, like remote wipe, but I'll say being able to set a real alphanumeric passcode for the screenlock instead of a grease-trail-reside gesture sounds much, much improved.
Some of the most impressive stuff that Google showed off last week is still a ways off—features that we know are coming but won't make it into Froyo. The current built-in music app is as clunky and ugly as ever, and managing music on the phone is not nearly as easy as it should be.
But Google's Simply Media-powered streaming demo, which was demonstrated streaming an entire library from a home computer to a phone, wouldn't just fix the sync issue, it would leapfrog what everybody else currently offers.
Though the unlimited streaming Zune Pass for Kin would be a close second. Also, no third-party apps are currently using the upcoming cloud-to-device messaging service Google showed off—it's like push notifications on the iPhone, but super-powered, so you could send links and even begin app downloads on your phone from, say, your desktop browser.
Update : The Chrome-to-Phone extension is live , and it works for the basic things Google showed, like sending links, maps, and YouTube videos from your browser to the phone. It was pretty instant, though I think I tried to send too much stuff to fast, and wound up building up a queue of links that got stuck, and then executed really fast, one after the other. Still, impressive. No OTA app or music downloading yet, though. It's not quite at the point my mother could use it without a precarious learning curve, but you can see how it's going to get better.
It's safe to say that with Froyo, Android has become something that most people really can use—and love. Considering again where Android was 6 , 12 and 18 months ago, I can believe the promises Google has made: that Android will blow your mind in another 6 months. The future of Android really has never looked brighter. Fastest version of Android yet, in an actually noticeable way.
Built-in portable hotspot powers though subject to your carrier's evil whims. Being able to stream music from your PC is will not "leapfrog" the competition.
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