Google Android Mobile Application Development

Editor's Notes

• #3: It’s a consortium of several companies.Devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.
• #4: Advances in semiconductor technologyAdvances in display technologyMiniaturization and mass production
• #7: Android, iOS, BB, Symbion7 lakh devices being activated every day
• #10: OHA is a consortium of several companies.Devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.
• #15: The Android browser puts the web at your fingertips. View multiple open pages at once.Make bookmarks so all your favorite sites are with you on-the-go. Save any web page to read when you’re offline—handy for mobile boarding passes, train schedules, and your favorite news articles. Fast, powerful and easy, just like on your computer.
• #17: Live Effects is a collection of graphical transformations that add interest and fun to videos captured in the Camera app. For example, you can change the background behind them to any stock or custom image, for just the right setting when shooting video. Also available for video is Silly Faces, a set of morphing effects that use state-of-the-art face recognition and GPU filters to transform facial features. For example, you can use effects such as small eyes, big mouth, big nose, face squeeze, and more. Outside of the Camera app, Live Effects is available during video chat in the Google Talk app.
• #18: You can swipe between conversations to catch and search for emails even when you don’t have a data connection.
• #19: Google Maps on Android comes with Places, Latitude, Navigation and Street View. Get free, turn-by-turn GPS navigation for driving, walking, and public transit directions to easily find your way.
• #20: Android listens to you. Use your voice to command your device.Also use voice typing to speak to type emails, SMS or even search the web. More than 20 languages supported.
• #21: Sharing with people close by has never been easier or quicker. Use Android Beam to share contacts, web pages, YouTube videos, directions, and apps—all with the power of Near Field Communication (NFC). Just touch two NFC-enabled Android devices back-to-back, then tap to beam whatever's on the screen to your friend.
• #22: Using state-of-the-art facial recognition technology, you can now open some Android devices with a smile. Just grab your phone with one hand, turn it on, and look at it—and you're in. No complicated passwords to remember.
• #23: The soft keyboard in Android 4.0 makes text input even faster and more accurate. Error correction and word suggestion are improved through a new set of default dictionaries.Word suggestion is also improved and the suggestion strip is simplified to show only three words at a time. To fix misspelled words more easily, Android 4.0 adds a spell-checker that locates and underlines errors and suggests replacement words.
• #24: Android 4.0 adds new controls for managing network data usage. In the Settings app, colorful charts show the total data usage on each network type (mobile or Wi-Fi), as well as amount of data used by each running application. Based on your data plan, you can optionally set warning levels or hard limits on data usage or disable mobile data altogether.
• #25: Widgets let you interact with your favourite apps right from your Home screen. You can add and resize your calendar, email feed, important Google+ posts, and more, so the important stuff in your life is right there within reach.
• #46: It’s a consortium of several companies.Devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.
• #47: It’s a consortium of several companies.Devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.