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Android 2.3 Gingerbread in cinema
You may not be means to get Android 2.3 installed in any official genius upon your Nexus One yet — or any other phone, for which matter — but Google’s 2.3 SDK is now accessible, that means there’s an emulator trustworthy, as well. As with many growth emulators, this one’s the stripped-down subset of a apps and settings you’d see upon an actual retail device; basically, all that’s left is the bare minimum Google figures the developers are starting to need to code apps. Be that as it may, we beheld a couple of things that stuck out:Overall, the UI changes have been intensely pointed, and in all for a better. We prefer a brand-new looks for a status bar, keyboard, and menus over their Froyo equivalents.We couldn’t get a sense of a opening improvements — a emulators is delayed as molasses for us as well as really has zero temperament upon how it’ll perform upon devices.When you reach the end of a scrolled list, the side of the list which has reached a end glows orange briefly, as if to make it even some-more obvious that you’re at the end. Even a browser does this — it’s an interesting outcome that we kind of liked.The miserable default camera UI is just a same. Expect manufacturers to continue to reinstate this with wild abandon.The Gmail app isn’t included in a emulator, so fright not when you’re looking at the shade shot of a unthreaded messages — that’s a “standard” email app.The fingertip-sized markers for highlighting text work utterly good, including in a browser. They appear to consistently disappear after the couple of seconds and automatically highlight as well as / or copy a content in in between a markers; we’re not sold on either we like which behavior.Clearly, the jury’s out until we’ve got the Nexus S firmly planted in the hands — but in a meanwhile, check out the garland of shots of Gingerbread you do its thing in the art studio next. Android 2.3 Gingerbread in pictures