Here's a description of the new Android 3.0 rendering system an enabling hardware acceleration:
http://android-developers.blogspot.c...eleration.html

Quite a dry read, but still interesting!

Here's a video of the new rendering framework in action! View in 720p for the best results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...6Sp_o&vq=hd720

Stunning!

What's interesting is that this demo was created using the standard Android UI toolkit. That's right, it doesn't include fragments, and other than the 3.0 hardware acceleration, is probably doable on Android 2.2.