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Hard to believe we are approaching Android 5.0. At Google IO next week we and the whole world will be presented with a sneak peak of features in Android 5.0.
5 Features
These are guesses and are not to be taken as factual. First, Motorola now MM has for awhile had this product(nicknamed Android Home) that runs as an application and when you plugin your device into a dock with a big display plugin you are presented with new UI interface that allows you to use your device as a slim PC.
Recently Ubuntu showed their own version that went a little further and brought in some Ubuntu features to the combination. This is important for several reasons.
At this time we are barely into multi-cpu devices and large ram sizs 500megs or more. When that reaches to above 1 gig ram and the processor speed gets to a stable 2GHZ what we have is actually something that was envisioned and hinted at with Apple Newton, namely the common computer for everyone that has this set of knowledge AIs that serve us.
Now of course in certain countries, yeah you USA, broadband speeds and coverage areas has to improve to LTE speeds and national wide coverage. But that should happen in the next 18 to 36 months.
The other important feature is a full finish port of the hardware acceleration throughout the full UI. Whle Android 4.0 did bring it closer from the slim API that was in in Android 3.0 it would be nice if it was fully polished, unfortunately I do not think they can fully backport the full api to Android 3.0.
Feature Hopes
The one feeature I hope for is more of an infrastructure hope. See when Google acquired Motorola or MM it had a service thatit allowed mobile poerators to use that is useful for the android ecosystem. It was the infrastructure required to actually CDNized, is that even a word, the delivery of a mobile OS update to the mobile operators cusomters devices.
Now imagine if Google took that same infrastructure and basically offered it to anyone in the OHA in such a way to it allowed OEMs to concentrate on other things and allowed mobile operators more flexibility in being able to meet cusomter demands for an updated androdi OS on their device.
Nice to haves
I would like the devices in markeplace dashboard improved to show things like how much of percentage of android devices have multi-cpus, that would be handy asi it would help all developers make use of their performance coding choices. Up until now each developer had to scour internet for infrequent free market reports that make some attempt to best guess at that percentage. For example, my own best guess is that we will be at 80% market share for android devices with multi-cpus in 18 months or less.
Webkit, New Chrome Fork
Also Jellybean is the first full release to feature a webkit fork namely fully chromized. While some of the features added are obvious such as tabs, I am wondering what improvements get passd down to webkitview for developers to use. Will we have the performance gains that than allow us to use weblit view say in a AppWidget? Wiil dart make an appearance?
Google IO
Some changes you might notice with this Goolge IO is that local GTUG chapters are partening with other groups to allow develoeprs to go to those locations to view the IO events being live rebroadcast if you were not lucky enough to get a ticket to the IO event itself. If you have not joined one of these groups, I just got my invite to attend the IO rebroadcast in the Chicago area due to my membership in Chicago GTUG and ChicagoAndroid, this would be the time to join one and attend their Google IO rebroadcast live event. The easy way to do that is go to Meetup dot com and type in GTUG android and your city, state and zipcode and it will find one close to your city.
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