Google releases Android 2.0 SDK

Google today released the SDK for the much-anticipated 2.0 update to the operating system – the Eclair. Android 2.0 offers a number of feature improvements and interface tweaks. The biggest new feature is multitouch support.

Syncing for multiple e-mail accounts, including Exchange accounts and contacts. According to the small print, however, “handset manufacturers can choose whether to include Exchange support in their devices.” Ick.

Here are the new features of the new Google Android 2.0 SDK:

• Developers can create sync adapters for additional data sources.
• The capability to e-mail, text, or call a contact by tapping their photo. What’s more, this “Quick Contact widget” can reside in multiple apps such as such as e-mail, Messaging, and the calendar.
• A combined e-mail in-box
• Improved camera controls with digital zoom, a scene mode, white balance controls, color effects, and a macro focus
• A revamped Android virtual keyboard layout for faster, more accurate typing. Also, as Google puts it, “the multitouch support ensures that key presses aren’t missed while typing rapidly with two fingers.”
• A smarter dictionary that will include contact names
• Bluetooth 2.1 with object push and phone book access profiles
• Refurbished browser user interface with improved search and navigation, bookmarks with Web page thumbnail support for HTML5, and support for double-tap zoom
• Text and multimedia message search
• In the calendar app, the agenda view has infinite scrolling. Events indicate the attending status for each invitee and you can invite new guests to events.

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