Android 2.3 Platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

#11

Post by gcb » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 4:37 PM UTC

tocomment wrote: post #8

What's a SIP account?

A voip standard

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by rquirk » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 4:37 PM UTC

The new NDK lets you write an application entirely in C, no need to get your hands dirty with Java at all. Of course this only works with android-9 (2.3), so if you want to write a game that people can actually play you'll still need a Java wrapper, but going forward you can bet that a lot more game ports will be Gingerbread-only.

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 4:40 PM UTC

wzdd wrote: post #9

charlesdm wrote: post #7

FUCKING FINALLY, Audio access from native code. This is going to be awesome.

In general it looks like they are moving closer to pure-native app support -- native life cycle and more access to Surfaces as well. This is interesting as even quite recently the official position was apps would be written in Java with JNI portions to accelerate the slow parts. It's a good shift imo.

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Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by gcb » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

Love how you can't read the android site in a android phone

Unless you send a android user agent, then it changes most of the css to enable it. Really a dumb move

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by pdx » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 4:44 PM UTC

    SIP-based VOIP

Good. Let's get some competition to the adware SIP apps that are out now (I'm looking at you, SIPDroid).

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by martythemaniak » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

Bouncy scrolling too. Yay.

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by brown9-2 » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

Description of a new developer feature named Strict Mode from Brad Fitzpatrick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick): http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/eh2jf/gingerbread_a...

Really neat how they are dogfooding and collecting metrics on performance from all the employees walking around with dev builds.

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by nkassis » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 5:07 PM UTC

Sensor API now supports a barometer? Are they paying their dues to Gene Roddenberry descendent's yet?

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by SingAlong » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 5:17 PM UTC

Here's a quick summary from the SDK release notes:

* Alarm clock APIs

* ability to detect first install time and last update time of an app

* Download manager API

* Mixable audio effects API

* A lot more locales (including indic language support)

* SIP VOIP support

* Front camera support

* 5-point multi-touch API

* Barometer

* Gyroscope

* NFC support (near field comminucation) - can interact using high frequency wireless communication with other stuff with NFC chips. Wikipedia has a pic of a phone interacting with a smart poster.

Can anyone throw some more light on NFC stuff and also why does a phone need a barometer?

Re: Android 2.3 Platform

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Post by jancona » Mon, Dec 06, 2010, 5:17 PM UTC

pdx wrote: post #15

SIP-based VOIP Good. Let's get some competition to the adware SIP apps that are out now (I'm looking at you, SIPDroid).

Are you saying the original open source Sipdroid (http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/) is adware? If so, why don't you remove the ad code and publish a clean version? You can, it's open source.

Or are you talking about the many clones that re-sell it in the Market--which they can do because it's open source?