Google yesterday held an event where they demonstrated the new Android 3.0 Honeycomb for the first time. A video of the entire event is now available on YouTube.
In the video, you will see Google s Hugo Barra demonstrate Honeycomb on a Motorola XOOM tablet. He touches upon various aspects of the new OS, including the brand new homescreen, which includes a new widget and notification system as well as a new multitasking menu.
We can also see that Honeycomb uses hardware acceleration for rendering the 3D as well as 2D graphics on the screen, which makes them a lot smoother. He also demoed Fruit Ninja on the tablet, which is the same version that we can download today on Android smartphones. This means that Honeycomb can run current Android applications natively, although Google is encouraging developers to come up with tablet optimized applications.
Another feature of Honeycomb is application fragments, which splits the screen into multiple sections and when a particular section calls for another screen, the panels on the screen slide out to make room for the new one instead of opening in a new window.
Honeycomb also uses a new graphics engine called Render Script, which enabled high performance 3D graphics in applications. This can be seen in applications such as YouTube or the Books app, which use a 3D carousal for the items. There is also a new Google Body application, which is like Google Earth for the human body.
Honeycomb also adds native support for video chat, something that has been missing from Android all this time.
You can see all this and more in the video below.
In the video, you will see Google s Hugo Barra demonstrate Honeycomb on a Motorola XOOM tablet. He touches upon various aspects of the new OS, including the brand new homescreen, which includes a new widget and notification system as well as a new multitasking menu.
We can also see that Honeycomb uses hardware acceleration for rendering the 3D as well as 2D graphics on the screen, which makes them a lot smoother. He also demoed Fruit Ninja on the tablet, which is the same version that we can download today on Android smartphones. This means that Honeycomb can run current Android applications natively, although Google is encouraging developers to come up with tablet optimized applications.
Another feature of Honeycomb is application fragments, which splits the screen into multiple sections and when a particular section calls for another screen, the panels on the screen slide out to make room for the new one instead of opening in a new window.
Honeycomb also uses a new graphics engine called Render Script, which enabled high performance 3D graphics in applications. This can be seen in applications such as YouTube or the Books app, which use a 3D carousal for the items. There is also a new Google Body application, which is like Google Earth for the human body.
Honeycomb also adds native support for video chat, something that has been missing from Android all this time.
You can see all this and more in the video below.
