Google libera nova versão do SDK do Android

A Google disponibilizou hoje uma nova versão "preview" do SDK do Android. Muitas novidades vem por aí. A lista é extensa e pode ser conferida abaixo:

User interface refinements

• System-wide:
  • Refinement of all core UI elements
  • Animated window transitions (off by default)
  • Accelerometer-based application rotations
• UI polish for:
  • In-call experience
  • Contacts, Call log, and Favorites
  • SMS & MMS
  • Browser
  • Gmail
  • Calendar
  • Email
  • Camera & Gallery
  • Application management

Performance improvements

• Faster Camera start-up and image capture
• Much faster acquisition of GPS location (powered by SUPL AGPS)
• Smoother page scrolling in Browser
• Speedier GMail conversation list scrolling

New features

• On-screen soft keyboard
• Works in both portrait and landscape orientation
• Support for user installation of 3rd party keyboards
• User dictionary for custom words
• Home screen
• Widgets
• Bundled home screen widgets include: analog clock, calendar, music player, picture frame, and search
• Live folders
• Camera & Gallery
• Video recording
• Video playback (MPEG-4 & 3GP formats)
• Bluetooth 
• Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles)
• Auto-pairing
• Improved handsfree experience
• Browser
• Updated with latest Webkit browser & Squirrelfish Javascript engines
• Copy 'n paste in browser
• Search within a page
• User-selectable text-encoding
• UI changes include:
• Unified Go and Search box
• Tabbed bookmarks/history/most-visited screen
• Contacts
• Shows user picture for Favorites
• Specific date/time stamp for events in call log
• One-touch access to a contact card from call log event
• System
• New Linux kernel (version 2.6.27)
• SD card filesystem auto-checking and repair
• SIM Application Toolkit 1.0
• Google applications
• View Google Talk friends' status in Contacts, SMS, MMS, GMail, and Email applications
• Batch actions such as archive, delete, and label on Gmail messages
• Upload videos to Youtube
• Upload photos on Picasa

New APIs and developer tools

• UI framework
• Framework for easier background/UI thread interaction
• New SlidingDrawer widget
• Horizontal ScrollView widget
• Home Screen framework
• APIs for creating secure home screen widgets
• APIs for populating live folders with custom content
• Media framework
• Raw audio recording and playback APIs
• Interactive MIDI playback engine
• Video recording APIs for developers (3GP format)
• Video and photo sharing Intents
• Media search Intent
• Input Method framework
• Text prediction engine
• Ability to provide downloadable IMEs to users
• Speech recognition framework
• Support for using speech recognition libraries via Intent
• Misc API additions
• LocationManager - Applications can get location change updates via Intent
• WebView - Touch start/end/move/cancel DOM event support
• SensorManager - redesigned sensor APIs
• GLSurfaceView - convenience framework for creating OpenGL applications
• Broadcast Intent for app update install succeeded - for smoother app upgrade experience
• Developer tools
• Support for multiple versions of Android in a single SDK installation
• Improved JUnit support in ADT
• Easier application performance profiling

A briga com o iPhone vai ser boa.. mas a Google vai ter que correr atrás...