Android 3 0 Honeycomb Overview

Google released its tablet-targeted Android version 3.0 (Honeycomb) with a totally new interdace and concepts.
here are the major updates:

• API level: 11.

Action Bar:
a new concept instead of the old title bar, very si,ilar to the task bar in Windows

Fragments API:

the Fragment is a new component allowing you to construct an Activity from multiple separate activities or from several invisible worker services.

System Clipboard:
The system provides more copy-paste capabalities, allowing the user to copy text, urls, images or any user-defined type through content providers.

Drag and Drop

The drag and drop operation enables you to move data in a visualized way. giving you the control over the diferrent drag and drop events.

App widgets:
Android 3.0 supports several new widget classes for more interactive app widgets on the users Home screen, including: GridView, ListView, StackView, ViewFlipper, and AdapterViewFlipper.

Status bar notifications:

new notifications system including the ability to configure the notification layouts and notifications large icons.

Content Loaders:
new API to load data asynchronously using the Loader class.

New UI and Graphics frameworks.

for more info regadring the honeycomb sdk please refer to this link.

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Recently a german based company showed a new product: We-Pad (instead of iPad).
its the same concept of iPad but runs on Android OS and Supports Flash.

see more details here

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WebOS on PCs will be an integrated experience

HP blocked its recent "Think Beyond" event with a extraordinary announcement that webOS would be coming to PCs. How, accurately, the company considered on doing that has been a mystery. The Seattle Times just interviewed HPs CTO, Phil McKinney, who helped put to rest some premature speculation that HP would be dumping Microsoft Windows in favor of webOS while adding some clarity to its webOS on the whole thing plan. According to Phil, people still want an OS appropriate to PCs, tablets, and smartphones with webOS pulling it all together by "taking the existing operating systems and bringing WebOS onto those platforms and making it universal across all of our footprint." That doesnt signify that webOS will run as a virtualized instance within Windows. Phil says, "its not virtualization. Its an integrated WebOS experience were looking to bring." He then adds, "Were working with Microsoft on the future of Windows and were very optimistic on what that future is, but what we think is we can bring an enhancement to that." The goal is to create a large device footprint that makes webOS a very good-looking platform to developers -- "you can build up your WebOS app thatll run on your phone, your slate and your PC," according to McKinney. Hmm, apparently HP didnt get the Elopcalypse memo about the "three-horse race" that considers HPs and RIMs ecosystems irrelevant. Source

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