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Gallery: Android 3.0 preview screenshots

By // January 27, 2011, 8:07 PM PST

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  • Google gives a taste of Honeycomb 3.0 with a preview of its  Android 3.0 Preview SDK. Larry Dignan has more in his blog.

    Android 3.0 is focused on giving better performance to devices with larger screens - tablets. It offers a new  virtual and “holographic” UI design, as well as a content-focused interaction model. According to Google it offers "refined multitasking, rich notifications, Home screen customization, widgets, and more."

  • Android 3.0 offers five customizeable home screens with each screen using a grid to maintain spacial organization. Users can play with Home screen widgets, app shortcuts, and wallpapers.

  • Google touts multitasking as a key strength of Android 3.0

  • The keyboard has been redesigned and new keys, such as Tab, have been added.

  • Standard apps include browser, camera and gallery, contacts, and email.

  • The camera app.

  • For developers, Android 3.0 is trying out a new framework created for tablet apps. It will break the Activities of their applications into subcomponents or fragments.

  • Android 3.0 has updated its home screen widgets to offer more types of content and new modes of interaction with users.

  • Android 3.0 now offers a multi-select mode that lets developers choose multiple items. It also will have a system-wide Clipboard that allows copying any type of data into and out of their applications.

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Google gives a taste of Honeycomb 3.0 with a preview of its  Android 3.0 Preview SDK. Larry Dignan has more in his blog.

Android 3.0 is focused on giving better performance to devices with larger screens - tablets. It offers a new  virtual and “holographic” UI design, as well as a content-focused interaction model. According to Google it offers "refined multitasking, rich notifications, Home screen customization, widgets, and more."

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