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Android 1.5 Highlights


Android 1.5 Highlights

April 2009

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

zt neuneu的翻译
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

性能改进

* 镜头启动和照片拍摄保存速度更快
* GPS定位速度极大加快(SUPL AGPS支持)
* 浏览器内页面滚动更加平滑
* Gmail会话列表滚动更加快捷

新功能

* 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

这发布和苹果比相当低调，但是改进个人感觉比iPhone OS3.0要大，Android系统实力不比iPhone OS差，甚至某方面强大多了，比如多程序运行。但Android到现在还没火起来，感觉比较遗憾，为什么呢？