Smart of Honeycomb to jump on the HTTP Live Streaming bandwagon. I've talked about it a lot here, so here's another article on it: http://pulsene.ws/SbgI (thanks to Mike Loukides at O'Reilly for tweeting it).
The smart thing would be to use this so Android users can get in on the streams that currently are being targeted to iOS users. The stupid thing would be to insist on using VP8 as the payload instead of the dominant H.264, because it's so "open" (rainbows and ponies, blan blah blah). Guess we'll see how this turns out… -Chris On Jan 26, 3:54 pm, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/01/android-30-platform-pr... > > Highlights:http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0-highlights.html > > Any early opinions? > > As I suspected, the new "Fragments" concept that splits up Activities > (screens) seem to automatically adapt to large and small screens. They also > say that it's optimised for single- and multi-core, so I guess Honeycomb > will be coming to phones, too. > > I get the impression the new look (they call it "holographic") is actively > made to discourage skinning. Application developers are strongly encouraged > to adhere to the OS's look and feel and new best practices like the action > bar have been baked in. > > And I haven't seen what it looks like yet, but the date/time picker has been > redesigned. That's a relief, as the old one was criminally ugly. HTC Sense > actually has a fairly nice one. > > Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
