The Android 1.5 platform introduces many new features for users and developers. The list below provides an overview of the changes.
User interface refinements
* System-wide:
o Refinement of all core UI elements
o Animated window transitions (off by default)
o Accelerometer-based application rotations
* UI polish for:
o In-call experience
o Contacts, Call log, and Favorites
o SMS & MMS
o Browser
o Gmail
o Calendar
o Email
o Camera & Gallery
o 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
o Works in both portrait and landscape orientation
o Support for user installation of 3rd party keyboards
o User dictionary for custom words
* Home screen
o Widgets
+ Bundled home screen widgets include: analog clock, calendar, music player, picture frame, and search
o Live folders
* Camera & Gallery
o Video recording
o Video playback (MPEG-4 & 3GP formats)
* Bluetooth
o Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles)
o Auto-pairing
o Improved handsfree experience
* Browser
o Updated with latest Webkit browser & Squirrelfish Javascript engines
o Copy 'n paste in browser
o Search within a page
o User-selectable text-encoding
o UI changes include:
+ Unified Go and Search box
+ Tabbed bookmarks/history/most-visited screen
* Contacts
o Shows user picture for Favorites
o Specific date/time stamp for events in call log
o One-touch access to a contact card from call log event
* System
o New Linux kernel (version 2.6.27)
o SD card filesystem auto-checking and repair
o SIM Application Toolkit 1.0
* Google applications
o View Google Talk friends' status in Contacts, SMS, MMS, GMail, and Email applications
o Batch actions such as archive, delete, and label on Gmail messages
o Upload videos to Youtube
o Upload photos on Picasa
New APIs and developer tools
* UI framework
o Framework for easier background/UI thread interaction
o New SlidingDrawer widget
o Horizontal ScrollView widget
* Home Screen framework
o APIs for creating secure home screen widgets
o APIs for populating live folders with custom content
* Media framework
o Raw audio recording and playback APIs
o Interactive MIDI playback engine
o Video recording APIs for developers (3GP format)
o Video and photo sharing Intents
o Media search Intent
* Input Method framework
o Text prediction engine
o Ability to provide downloadable IMEs to users
* Speech recognition framework
o Support for using speech recognition libraries via Intent
* Misc API additions
o LocationManager - Applications can get location change updates via Intent
o WebView - Touch start/end/move/cancel DOM event support
o SensorManager - redesigned sensor APIs
o GLSurfaceView - convenience framework for creating OpenGL applications
o Broadcast Intent for app update install succeeded - for smoother app upgrade experience
* Developer tools
o Support for multiple versions of Android in a single SDK installation
o Improved JUnit support in ADT
o Easier application performance profiling
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UI改进:
*系统范围:
o 改进了所有核心UI元素
o 动态窗口过渡
o 基于加速器的程序旋转
*特别改善的有:
o 电话呼入
o 联系人,通话记录和常用联系人
o 短信和彩信
o 浏览器
o Gmail
o 日历
o Email
o 照相机和相册
o 程序管理
* 屏幕虚拟键盘
o 支持纵向和横向键盘
o 支持用户安装第三方键盘
o 支持用户自定义词库
* 主屏幕(home screen)
o 支持Widgets,捆绑的小工具有: 虚拟时钟, 日历, 音乐播放器, 图片相框, 搜索;
o 可修改的文件夹
o 视频录制
o 视频播放(MPEG-4 以及 3GP格式)
* 蓝牙
o 立体蓝牙支持(A2DP和AVCRP模式)
o 自动配对
o 改进免提体验
* 浏览器
o 升级到最新的Webkit浏览器以及Squirrelfish Javascript引擎
o 浏览器内实现复制粘贴
o 网页内的搜索
o 用户可选择编码模式
o UI改变包括:
+ 统一的go和search框
+ 选项卡式的书签/历史/最多访问的页面
* 联系人
o 常用联系人显示头像
o 通话记录的日期时间标记
o 从通话记录直接点击察看联系人信息页面
* 系统
o 新linux内核(2.6.27版本)
o SD卡文件系统自动检查和修复
o SIM程序工具包1.0
* Google应用程序
o 在联系人页面,短信,彩信,Gmail和其他Email程序内察看联系人的Gtalk状态
o 批量处理Gmail的归档,删除,标签等等
o 上传视频到Youtube
o 上传图片到Picasaweb