Honeycomb and pre-3.0 apps

[tknz]

Since honeycomb is now tablet only, I really hope they have a windowing system to deal with applications made for smaller display. That way we can have multiple apps running side-by-side.. rather than being enlarged and pixelated?

Could be possible because when they show-cased the atrix it seemed they were running window'd android applications on that custom linux (after the device was plugged in)... But this all depends on how honeycomb was designed.

I doubt this would be in the current version but maybe in later versions but this seems like its a must.. I can just see how you could drag each application seperately, two finger resize, change its orientation within a windows style environment.

There are already 120,000 android apps. and from my experience with the iPad, I couldn't handle any non-iPad apps they were simply too ugly.

Can't wait to get my hands on that sexy xoom.

 

[egzthunder1]

Thread moved to General.

 

[513]

The way iOS manage apps is different than Android.

iOS streches iPhone apps on the iPad, Android can scale them.

Look at the Galaxy Tab, most of the apps at first developed for phones (if well coded) just worked on this large screen so I imagine it isn't going to be a problem, maybe just some minor bug fixes.

 

[adub007]

well being that i personally played with the xoom prototype 2dayi can esure u that the apps just scale up to fit the screen it does a great job at it too

 

[PuerkitoBio]

If you watch Engadget's interview with Google's Mathias Duarte (http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/exclusive-interview-googles-matias-duarte-talks-honeycomb-tab/), you'll see that Honeycomb is not for tablets only (or at least the new UI could be ported to phones, according to Duarte, though maybe not under the Honeycomb's moniker).

As for apps scaling from phone-sized screens to tablets, it is simply a matter of layout sizing used by developers. Good practice would be to use "fill_parent", which would scale to fit the screen, though some developers use fixed sizes (which are not scaled by Android, obviously).

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/layout-resource.html

 

[diversificationied]

Expect the Launcher3 to support view within view api allowing phone apps to run inside the launcher homescreens.