Android 4.0 ICS – Ice Cream Sanwich Operating System

Google’s upcoming “Ice Cream Sandwich” Android 4.0 operating system will be a combination of previous Gingerbread and Honeycomb android operating system. The goal here was to create a more cohesive, less fragmented unit. All in an effort to have a more stable, universal Android mobile operating system.

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Google’s mantra for the new Android 4.0 Operating System – “one OS everywhere”. This effort will resultin a single version of Android running across phones and tablets alike.

Features include facial recognition and new APIs to reduce fragmentation.

Ice Cream Sandwich will utilize the interface of Android 3.0 Honeycomb. An updated app launcher and a holographic user interface along with an interactive homescreen complete with new homescreen widgets and the multi-tasking panel.

Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich will incorporate all the best parts of Honeycomb and Gingerbread making this operating system a mirror from smartphones to tablets. Making, them in essence, one system for both.

This new update allows Android tablets to be able to act as a USB hub. Then you can connect devices such as mice and keyboards and game controllers to tablets and smartphones.

Google is also intending to make life easier for developers by releasing a new set of APIs that will help them to scale their apps across the various sizes of Android devices – Google acknowledges that it’s important for developers to be able to design apps that will work across 3.5-inch smartphones up to 10.1-inch tablets.

During the Google Google I/O keynote those on stage also showed off 3D headtracking using the front-mounted camera so you can figure out who is speaking and focus on them while on a video call. Face detection will be a key feature in the OS.

September 14, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Android 4.0 O/S, Droid Prime Nexus, Ice Cream Sandwich

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