The new animation system in Honeycomb is not specific to Views, is not limited to specific properties on objects, and is not just a visual animation system. Instead, it is a system that is all about animating values over time, and assigning those values to target objects and properties - any target objects and properties. So you can move a View or fade it in. And you can move a Drawable inside a View. And you can animate the background color of a Drawable. In fact, you can animate the values of any data structure; you just tell the animation system how long to run for, how to evaluate between values of a custom type, and what values to animate between, and the system handles the details of calculating the animated values and setting them on the target object.

Renderscript is a new API targeted at high-performance 3D rendering and compute operations. The goal of Renderscript is to bring a lower level, higher performance API to Android developers. The target audience is the set of developers looking to maximize the performance of their applications and are comfortable working closer to the metal to achieve this. It provides the developer three primary tools: A simple 3D rendering API on top of hardware acceleration, a developer friendly compute API similar to CUDA, and a familiar language in C99.

Renderscript has been used in the creation of the new visually-rich YouTube and Books apps. It is the API used in the live wallpapers shipping with the first Honeycomb tablets.

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt

Ruh, Roh! It seems that Samsung is proactively modifying its strategy based on the iPad2!

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/tech...09300320F.HTML

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Does this mean that Samsung is going to slim down the Tab 10.1, and reduce the price? This just got very interesting...

Originally Posted by lemmyslender

I know thickness (or thinness) is a big selling point for phones, but as the screens get larger, I think a little thicker would give a more "sturdy" feel. The thinner you make the bigger screen, the more perceived "flex" there is going to be.

As long as the weight is in an acceptable range, I'd rather a tablet (particularly a large non pocket-able one feel a little sturdier (thicker). Otherwise, I'd always be worried about cracking the screen.

Originally Posted by ysss

I was very surprised when I read that comment. It came across as honest and pretty candid.

If they manage to make the necessary 'corrections' and ship the 10" tab to 'beat' iPad 2 in those mentioned aspects then my hats off to Samsung.

Otherwise, those comments would sound really really silly

Customers who purchase an app will retain an entitlement to their app even if they decide to replace their current Android device and/or purchase new devices, as long as the new devices meet the installation requirements of the app. This provides insurance to customers that their purchased apps will be available for use on all supported devices, even if the customer has uninstalled or otherwise removed those apps in the past.

The digital locker service combined with a robust Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution not only make managing apps easier for customers, they also address one of the biggest concerns developers have: unauthorized copying and distribution. An authorized user can now install your app on any of their supported devices; however, if you chose to apply DRM on your app at submission time, your app will not run on unauthorized devices.

Any app that has Amazon DRM applied to it will require users to have installed and signed-in to the Amazon Appstore client to access the app. When an app is accessed by the user, it will verify with the Amazon Appstore device service as to whether the user has an entitlement to the app. If the user does not sign in or does not have an entitlement to that app, then the app will not be usable. However, any user can gain an entitlement by purchasing the app through Amazon.

Originally Posted by lemmyslender

I know thickness (or thinness) is a big selling point for phones, but as the screens get larger, I think a little thicker would give a more "sturdy" feel. The thinner you make the bigger screen, the more perceived "flex" there is going to be.

As long as the weight is in an acceptable range, I'd rather a tablet (particularly a large non pocket-able one feel a little sturdier (thicker). Otherwise, I'd always be worried about cracking the screen.