Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Overview

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/honeycomb.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="151" l6="true" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/honeycomb.bmp" width="200" /></a></div>Google released it's tablet-targeted Android version 3.0 (Honeycomb) with a totally new interdace and concepts.<br />here are the major updates:<br /><ul><li><strong>API level</strong>: 11.</li></ul><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Action Bar:</span><br />a new concept instead of the old title bar, very si,ilar to the task bar in Windows<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/actions_bar.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="127" l6="true" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/actions_bar.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Fragments API:</span></div>the <b>Fragment</b> is a new component allowing you to construct an <b>Activity</b> from multiple separate activities or from several invisible worker services.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/fragments.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" l6="true" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/fragments.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/fragment.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="123" l6="true" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/fragment.png" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">System Clipboard:</span><br />The system provides more copy-paste capabalities, allowing the user to copy text, urls, images or any user-defined type through content providers.</div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Drag and Drop</span></div>The drag and drop operation enables you to move data in a visualized way. giving you the control over the diferrent drag and drop events.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">App widgets:</span><br />Android 3.0 supports several new widget classes for more interactive app widgets on the users Home screen, including: GridView, ListView, StackView, ViewFlipper, and AdapterViewFlipper.</div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Status bar notifications:</span></div>new notifications system including the ability to configure the notification layouts and notifications large icons.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/notifications.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" l6="true" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2624328/Android%20Pro/2011/Mars/Honeycomb/notifications.png" width="200" /></a></div></div><span style="font-size: large;">Content Loaders:</span><br />new API to load data asynchronously using the <b>Loader</b> class.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">New UI and Graphics frameworks.</span><br /><br />for more info regadring the honeycomb sdk please refer to this <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0.html">link</a>.</div>

Google released it's tablet-targeted Android version 3.0 (Honeycomb) with a totally new interdace and concepts. here are the major updat...