Android 2.3 Platform Highlights With More Features

The Android 2.3 belvedere introduces abounding new and agitative appearance for users and developers. This certificate provides a glimpse at some of the new appearance and technologies in Android 2.3. For abundant advice about the new developer APIs, see the
Android 2.3 version notes.

• New User Features
• New Developer Features
• New Platform Technologies

UI refinements for artlessness and speed
The user interface is aesthetic in abounding means beyond the system, authoritative it easier to learn, faster to use, and added power-efficient. A simplified beheld affair of colors adjoin atramentous brings afterglow and adverse to the notification bar, menus, and added locations of the UI. Changes in airheaded and settings accomplish it easier for the user to cross and ascendancy the appearance of the arrangement and device.
Faster, added automatic argument input
The Android bendable keyboard is redesigned and optimized for faster argument ascribe and editing. The keys themselves are adapted and repositioned for bigger targeting, authoritative them easier to see and columnist accurately, even at top speeds. The keyboard aswell displays the accepted appearance and concordance suggestions in a larger, added active appearance that is easier to read.
The keyboard adds the adequacy to actual entered words from suggestions in the dictionary. As the user selects a chat already entered, the keyboard displays suggestions that the user can acquire from, to alter the selection. The user can aswell about-face to articulation ascribe approach to alter the selection. Smart suggestions let the user acquire a advancement and again acknowledgment to actual it later, if needed, from the aboriginal set of suggestions.

New multitouch key-chording lets the user bound admission numbers and symbols by acute Shift+ and ?123+, after defective to manually about-face ascribe modes. From assertive keys, users can aswell admission a popup card of absolute characters, numbers, and symbols by captivation the key and sliding to baddest a character.