High-performance 2D and 3D graphics: A new property-based animation framework lets developers add great visual effects to their apps. A built-in GL renderer lets developers request hardware-acceleration of common 2D rendering operations in their apps, across the entire app or only in specific activities or views. For adding rich 3D scenes, developers take advantage of a new 3D graphics engine called Renderscript.
This ought to do a lot of good for smoothness and sleek animations. The selection ability is also great - looks like Apps can selectively enable hardware acceleration based on their needs and underlying hardware capabilities.
Support for multicore processor architectures: Android 3.0 is optimized to run on either single- or dual-core processors, so that applications run with the best possible performance.
Would be great to know what they did to optimize it for dual core - may be some parallel GC tweaks, and some API additions for task bindings etc.
Rich multimedia: New multimedia features such as HTTP Live streaming support, a pluggable DRM framework, and easy media file transfer through MTP/PTP, give developers new ways to bring rich content to users.
DRM - NetFlix can finally shut up! I am not unhappy as it is pluggable - if I don't want it I won't install the plug.
Enhancements for enterprise: New administrative policies, such as for encrypted storage and password expiration, help enterprise administrators manage devices more effectively.
Encrypted storage is too little too late unless I am misunderstanding it - this looks like it's limited to storing Exchange data only, and not system wide encryption. But they are going somewhere with it which is good.
> I am not unhappy as it is pluggable - if I don't want it I won't install the plug.
Pluggable does not mean "as a plugin". As a user, you won't be given any choice in the matter (short of not installing the application at all of course).
Right - I meant if I don't need/install Netflix for example, the DRM plug won't be on my phone. So yeah - I might get Netflix bundled on VZW phone but I have a choice to go with another one that doesn't ship with it.
> Right - I meant if I don't need/install Netflix for example, the DRM plug won't be on my phone.
There is no "DRM plug". "Pluggable DRM framework" means Google just provides an architecture to implement their actual DRM, instead of forcing developers to use Google's own DRMs. Nothing more, nothing less. Your declarations hardly make sense.
I don't understand what you are arguing here. Quoting from the docs - Android 3.0 includes an extensible DRM framework that lets applications manage protected content according to a variety of DRM mechanisms that may be available...
All I am saying is it would still be possible for me to buy a Android device whose maker doesn't implement any DRM at all. Or do you happen to know something that I don't and Google is planning to provide a default mandatory DRM for Android that everyone must carry?
High-performance 2D and 3D graphics: A new property-based animation framework lets developers add great visual effects to their apps. A built-in GL renderer lets developers request hardware-acceleration of common 2D rendering operations in their apps, across the entire app or only in specific activities or views. For adding rich 3D scenes, developers take advantage of a new 3D graphics engine called Renderscript.
This ought to do a lot of good for smoothness and sleek animations. The selection ability is also great - looks like Apps can selectively enable hardware acceleration based on their needs and underlying hardware capabilities.
Support for multicore processor architectures: Android 3.0 is optimized to run on either single- or dual-core processors, so that applications run with the best possible performance.
Would be great to know what they did to optimize it for dual core - may be some parallel GC tweaks, and some API additions for task bindings etc.
Rich multimedia: New multimedia features such as HTTP Live streaming support, a pluggable DRM framework, and easy media file transfer through MTP/PTP, give developers new ways to bring rich content to users.
DRM - NetFlix can finally shut up! I am not unhappy as it is pluggable - if I don't want it I won't install the plug.
Enhancements for enterprise: New administrative policies, such as for encrypted storage and password expiration, help enterprise administrators manage devices more effectively.
Encrypted storage is too little too late unless I am misunderstanding it - this looks like it's limited to storing Exchange data only, and not system wide encryption. But they are going somewhere with it which is good.