Comments on: Android 1.6 (Donut): SDK Available, Big Backend Updates

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:03:34 +0000

You missed the most important feature update there is: THE ABILITY TO STOP APPLICATIONS ON THE FLY FROM THE OS… this feature gets masked under the notion of an improved battery monitor (which can stop power-hungry apps), but the exclusion of user control over processes was the biggest mistake of the original Android architecture.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:44:46 +0000

The battery indicator thing does sound nice.. I’m sure there are things I kill to save battery, that I probably don’t need to.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:19:39 +0000

no worries rob just giving you a hard time

but anyways well since its available for devs. i would imagine it has to be coming sometime soon?

how long did the devs have 1.5 before it was released?

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:15:51 +0000

@Dweller here is an overview of the new features (it does talk about a new gesture framework) http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.6-highlights.html

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:35 +0000

You can already get TTS on the phone from a market applicaiton, and various apps use it (bubble, i think some compass ones, etc.) so if you wanna try it out before donut, then go for it. I think it’s called “TTS Service”. Also, it doesn’t require an internet connection.

By: Rob Jackson

Rob Jackson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:37:20 +0000

@ryan lol i was so late on this that i had about 1234524 billion people tip it. so i’ll thank you here in the comments for being one of them. thank you. :)

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:28:41 +0000

dang i dont get any kinda of shout out?

By: stjojsdofg

stjojsdofg — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:22:37 +0000

Is there any information available concerning the adding of WPA2 Enterprise encryption capabilities for Wifi?

By: powermite

powermite — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:54:21 +0000

That battery usage feature does sound really cool..

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:51:33 +0000

Why do people look over the VMP options as bing big. Thats major if you ask me. It was the last hurdle for me to be able to really get some work done for my job on the go. I have to maintain some servers and the combination of VPN and ssh will let me do that wherever I am. It opens up alot of possibilities.

By: Dweller

Dweller — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:05:56 +0000

What happened to multitouch? Is it still coming in donut?

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:08:34 +0000

“We teased you last week when we told you that Cupcake had arrived” … I think you mean “Donut”. :)

By: Utz

Utz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:02:46 +0000

I love Donut on my G1 <3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=539744

By: qlimax

qlimax — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:52:39 +0000

Expanded support for screen densities and resolutions

Android 1.6 adds screen support that enables applications to be rendered properly on different display resolutions and densities. Developers can also specify the types of screens supported by their application.

Nice Work Google !

By: son

son — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:42:53 +0000

oh yeah one more thing bluetooth for file/data transfer… phone as modem as well while at it…