Google’s annual I//O event in San Francisco has seen the company lift the curtain on the next version of the Android system, with the unwieldy (though delicious) nickname Ice Cream Sandwich.
The company is looking to stave off fragmentation between Android devices by marrying the developments of the tablet-focused Honeycomb system with the smartphone optimized Gingerbread as a one-stop OS solution.
Because there are so many different Android devices on the market, all of different sizes, shapes and specs, developers have often expressed concern that their apps can’t reach the entire Android audience.
With Ice Cream Sandwich Google says it is aiming to deliver the ‘one OS that runs anywhere’, offering a consistent user interface experience across devices with development tools robust enough to achieve that.
It is an ambitious goal but it certainly shows Google is listening when both users and third parties speak up about the OS – it has also promised to keep all aspects of the new system completely open source.
The company did not have a great deal in the way of solid information about Ice Cream Sandwich at the event ...full story
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