Today Google presented its Android v2.2 at the Google I/O conference. Let’s consider some of the most important facts for Android apps developers, which are connected with new Froyo.
The Android 2.2 system (aka Froyo) provides an incredible speed boost for work with applications. According to benchmark tests apps works 450% faster than on the previous OS versions on base of the same hardware. In addition, this Android OS release will help to reduce the market fragmentation. Applications that were previously embedded in Android platform will be used outside its kernel, so it means that users of the first versions will get access to the last advanced apps.
The test Linpack for Android showed that speed of the applications on Nexus One was increased by 450% with optimization of the virtual machine Dalvik only. And different studies of the Android 2.2 preliminary versions have led to another unexpected discovery. Gadgets running older versions of Android (1.5, 1.6 and 2.1) can often cope with newer versions of the operating system. For example, the first official Android-G1 smartphone works well with Android 2.1 firmware!
The most smartphones have not even updated their OS to the Android 2.1 version, but it does not prevent Google from developing and debugging of the next version of its platform. So,