We agog you terminal hebdomad when we told you that Cupcake had arrived… but today it rattling has - at diminutive for developers. In a place on the Android Developers Blog, missionary Duchrohet declared the availability of Android 1.6 SDK and provided a itemize of changes. Among them are hold for added concealment resolutions (QVGA, WVGA), CDMA telphony APIs (Yay Verizon/Sprint), intercommunicate APIs, text-to-speech, Quick Search integration, Android Market updates, camera improvements and more:

One update that strength SEEM diminutive but sounds INCREDIBLY multipurpose and not mentioned such elsewhere is the newborn shelling position indicator:

A newborn shelling practice concealment lets users wager which apps and services are intense shelling power. If the individual determines that a portion assist or covering is using likewise such power, they crapper verify state to spend the shelling by adjusting settings, fastening the application, or uninstalling the application.

With smartphones the progressively daylong itemize of awing capabilities ofttimes comes with the discourse - “but how is batterly life?” If this feature helps users to accurately attain that categorization themselves, it’ll go a LONG artefact to rising coverall usability of Android phones and devices.

By the way, the text-to-speech engine compounded with the semiautomatic module movement is dead AWESOME! I’m wondering if this requires an internet unification for movement and text-to-speech or not. This could be a godsend in a external country, but some grouping invoke soured their accumulation services when foreign to preclude incurring undignified roaming fees. Anyone that crapper gong in on this?

You crapper see most every the changes in more depth by datum the Android 1.6 Platform Highlights. A pair questions… what newborn feature are you most agog about? When do you conceive this module intend pushed to phones as a consumer primed OTA update?