Tante novità in arrivo per la piattaforma Android (2/4)

Tante novità in arrivo per la piattaforma Android

22 Dicembre 2008 | Max Capitosti

Applications

Accounts that were marked "never check" are not auto-checked.
Date & time displayed using user preference (e.g. 24 hr vs. AM/PM).
cc: displayed in message view.
Relaxed POP3 parser rules so it works with non-compliant email servers.
Password quoting bugs in IMAP. Makes it work for users with funny chars in their password (e.g. spaces).
Various sources of errors in auto & manual account setup.
Improvements on how we report various connection errors. Makes it much easier for user to diagnose failed account setups.
New-mail notifications for POP3 accounts.
Properly recover from POP3 connection failures, so that the next connection has a chance of working properly.
Remove automatic accounts setup entries that were broken or nottestable. Minor fixes to a few of the remaining entries. Improvementsto warning dialogs used for a few special cases.
New accounts are now set to check every 15 minutes (instead of defaulting to "never").
Fixed a bug causing approximately 1 in 25 outbound messages to freezeup the IMAP connection (to a Gmail based server) when transferred tothe Sent folder. This broke the entire connection so new messagescould not be downloaded either.
Unit test framework so Email can be extended & tested more reliably.
Fix IMAP manually-created accounts so message delete works properly.

Alert now plays audio/vibe directly, rather than through AlarmManager.AlarmClock alert starts playing audio/vibe in its IntentReceiver,rather than on activity start. These changes should prevent alarms frombeing blocked by modal dialogs.

Music playback fades in after suspending for phone call.
New media search intent allows for 3rd party apps to launch or respondto media searches based on artist, album, or title.
Affects: MusicPlayer, YouTube, Browser applications.

Updated WebKit browser core, synced with Nov 2008 WebKit version.
Support for new, optimized JavaScript engine (SquirrelFish).
Copy/ paste is enabled in the browser. To copy with touch, press and holdthe shift key and select the text. Releasing the shift key or endingthe touch drag copies the text. To copy with the trackball, press andhold the shift key, move the cursor to the selection start, click thetrackball, and move the trackball to the extend the selection.Releasing the shift key, or clicking the trackball a second time,copies the text.
Find is enabled in the browser. To find text, choose it from the menu and type the text to find.
Drawinghas been sped up substantially by supporting partial contentinvalidates and partial screen invalidates. Pages with animations are5x faster.