Android 1.1 SDK has been released!

February 10, 2009 2 Comments

The brand new Android 1.1. SDK is now available for us to download! Some stuff changed some new API routines have been added. Check them out here:

Overview

  • Adds annotations for test systems, no actual (non-test) API changes.
  • Adds a method to allow a process to easily determine its UID.
  • Adds support for marquee in layouts.
  • Adds new methods for determining padding in views. Useful if you are writing your own subclasses of View.
  • Adds new permissions that allow an application to broadcast an SMS or WAP Push message.

New Features

  • Maps: Adds details and reviews when a user does a search on Maps and clicks on a business to view its details.
  • Dialer: In-call screen timeout default is now longer when using the speakerphone.
  • Dialer: Adds a “Show dialpad” / “Hide dialpad” item to the in-call menu, to make it easier to discover the DTMF dialpad.
  • Adds support for saving attachments from MMS.
  • Adds support for marquee in layouts.

Check out the full release notes page for more detailed information: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.1.html

Everyone who is not interested in details can go straight away to the Android 1.1 SDK download: http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.1_r1/index.html

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