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Android 2.2 (Froyo) features
- stanleydrew 16y agoSome great stuff in here. I'm hoping a couple of Android's browser quirks get worked out as well with this release.
- ebiester 16y agoI'm worried about developer-side automatic update. I can think of more than a few times where I wouldn't want such an update, or bad things that a developer could do to a user. As a developer, I'd like it, but I'm not so sure as a user.
- hexis 16y agoFrom the screenshot (of dubious authenticity) I saw on a different website, it seemed like the automatic updates was a setting that the user controls per app. There are still some problems with automatic updates (as there also are with non-automatic updates), but at least the control is relatively fine-grained.
- wanderr 16y agoThere was a streaming music app not too long ago that accidentally wiped people's SD cards entirely if the update was installed. Definitely glad I waited a few days and checked the comments before updating.
- jsz0 16y agoI'd be happy with an "Update All" button.
- fauigerzigerk 16y ago"Update All" plus an exclusion list
- psyklic 16y agoTrue, but currently I have fifteen apps that say they have updates, and I am by no means a heavy app user. To update them (which requires FOUR clicks per app) is a waste of my time, to be quite honest. Yes, I am incurring a slight risk (depending on whether the apps I d/l are trusted), but I for one would be more than happy to automate this part of my life. For the cautious users, perhaps there could be a "wait x days after release before update" option.
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- sandGorgon 16y agoit is actually quite surprising that an update all button is not available in Android. I did'nt know until you mentioned it here. Fail!
- unfair 16y agoIt would be nice if they added a few options, I would like to see a "don't notify me about updates" checkbox. If an app is working fine and not a security risk (much more likely on android), then I don't want it to bug me.
- darshan 16y agoYou already can, although it's not per application, it's all-or-nothing. The setting is located at Market->Downloads->Menu->Notifications (at least on T-Mobile's brand of Android 1.6 -- I think it was in a slightly different place on 1.5, but it was there somewhere.)
- mey 16y agoI'd really love Bluetooth HID profile support. Even just keyboard.
- risotto 16y agoI want mouse too! My phone should/could be a little VNC/KVM type device for many computers
- machrider 16y agoHas there been any update on the Nexus Two rumors from a month or two ago? I want an Android phone and I'm tempted to get the Nexus One, but I don't want it to instantly be obsolete... Recommendations?
- romland 16y agoI picked up the HTC Desire a few weeks back and I have never been happier with a phone, I would sincerely recommend it. It runs Android 2.1 out of the box. http://www.htc.com/www/product/desire/overview.html http://www.htc.com/www/product/desire/overview.html I have to say, though, it actually looks better in real than it does on the pictures, if looks is anything you care about. Not sure how HTC botched the pictures, can't really put my finger on it.
- theBobMcCormick 16y agoThe Nexus One is the same way. It looks kind of plastic and cheap in pictures, but is damn good looking in person. A couple of the iPhone users at work have commented that it's the first non-iPhone phone that they've been tempted by.
- borism 16y agoisn't the problem with those HTC Android phones that you'll get such updates at least half a year later than most other people, which is time needed for HTC to upgrade it's Sense UI?
- wgren 16y agoThat is a risk. But if you don't mind rooting the phone, you can run Cyanogen and other's mods on it with plain Android. That way you will get the latest version really fast, if you feel you need it and is willing to sacrifice Sense. Also Google is working on making future versions of Android modular, so users can download minor updates through Android Market. Big OS number changes will then hopfully come much more seldom and be reserved for major kernel updates and so on. Hopefully this will make it easier for HTC and others to release updates faster.
- jaybol 16y agoFroyo as in frozen yogurt right?
- hyperbovine 16y agoYeah. Although how this is supposed to be an improvement over cupcake is anyone's guess.
- joezydeco 16y agoyou forgot donut and eclair?
- bugmenot 16y agoThere has been a JIT that can be enabled for testing for a long time now. There being a talk about it doesn't really mean anything re it finally being enabled by default.
- wanderr 16y agoCan anyone elaborate on how JIT is new to 2.2 and how that compares to how <=2.1 handles it? I haven't touched Java in ages, but I thought JIT was a fundamental part of how Java works, so I'm a bit confused.
- teilo 16y agoAndroid does not have a JVM. While Android applications are written in Java, and initially compiled to Java bytecode, that bytecode is then translated into Davlik bytecode, and saved to a compact .dex executable, and run in the Davlik virtual machine. The Davlik virtual machine is quite different from the JVM. It is optimized for small devices. It is register-based rather than stack-based. It does not (currently) include a JIT compiler.
- wanderr 16y agoWow, I had no idea! Thanks for the summary. :)
- eli 16y agoYup, seems like a really clever way to give developers a familiar language with a huge library without having to make a deal with Sun (err Oracle) for a JVM license
- wmf 16y agoThe clever part is getting anyone to believe that a VM with the exact same semantics as Java doesn't infringe Java patents.
- nailer 16y agoIsn't the JVM OSS?
- dchest 16y agoHere's an article on this: "Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME" http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/
- dschobel 16y agoHere's hoping for a software fix for the N1's crappy multi-touch: http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/is-multitouch-broken-on-the-nexus-one/ http://androidandme.com/2010/03/news/is-multitouch-broken-on...
- dschobel 16y agoumm, people disagree that it's broken? I don't get downvotes.
- bretthoerner 16y agoI believe it's been fixed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWPsM2EdXPw&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWPsM2EdXPw&feature=playe...
- dschobel 16y agoThat video shows it still broken on the N1. The droid (and droid incredible) never had the issue.
- teilo 16y agoIt has been working great for me. Course, I am using Cyanogen's ROM, so that might be part of it.
- orangecat 16y agoI'm using Cyanogen's ROM too, and I don't think it helps. Run the Spare Parts app and select Pointer Location. If you touch the screen in two places and move them around it's pretty easy to get it to report bogus locations.
- buster 16y agoI used multi-touch only once or twice but it seemed to work as expected in maps and browser on my N1. When i first got multitouch on the G1 i was pretty much underwhelmed, everyone with an iPhone told me "but it doesn't do multi touch!". And then? What i never thought of.. Why would i want to use two hands to operate my mobile when every app has good means to zoom, etc. with only one hand. Most overrated feature on phones nowadays, imo. I guess others use multi touch a lot.. but well.. for me.. Anyway, how do i see this non-working multi touch in a real app, again? Because.. well, if this bug would be as bad as the movie makes it look like, a test at HTC would have found it instantly before production.
- Sephr 16y agoIt fails to mention the 802.11n support to be added.
- enomar 16y agoAre there any existing android phones that have FM hardware? I assume the FM radio support is for future phones...right?
- sandGorgon 16y agoI feel the same way as you do... until I realized that for the vast majority of consumers FM <<<<<<< Pandora = Last.fm
- detst 16y agoIt's on the HTC Incredible running 2.1 and it works today. I believe it's on others too.
- darshan 16y agoThe HTC Desire does, but it already works there. Most people are speculating that this is one of the "secrets" Google claims is still hiding away in the Nexus One, given that the Desire and the N1 are basically the same inside, and their Broadcom chipset's specs include FM receiver/transmitter.
- nailer 16y agosorry, accidentally hit downvote. On desire here and fm is do much more convenient than web radio.
- sadiq 16y agoWhat would be really useful actually is DAB, since that seems to be where things are moving in the UK.
- kelnos 16y agoI'd read (though I can't find the link now) that there's no FM antenna connected to the FM radio in the N1. I'm not sure if that's true, or not... would be a damn shame if so.
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- RyanMcGreal 16y ago>interesting features that I’m sure Android users will find interesting. Really, copy-editor?
- SkyMarshal 16y agoIt sounds like a beta version of Android 2.2 (Froyo) is out in the wild for testing — and it has some interesting features that I’m sure Android users will find interesting. Hmm, how interesting.
- JereCoh 16y agoUntil Google seeks the professional services of a graphic designer and a user experience designer to improve the core UI metaphors (like navigation based, tab bar apps, split view based concepts on the iPhone), I won't consider it a serious alternative to the iPhone. This isn't about skin deep beauty. The user experience on the iPhone is better in nearly every way and it deserves just as much attention as technical improvements.
- nailer 16y agoHave you tried Sense on a current gen device? The experience leapfrogs iPhone.