On Jan 10, 7:01*pm, "Rob.Russell" wrote:
On Jan 4, 1:05*am, Darryl Ramm wrote:

Honeycomb and that is where developers will want to move to. Stay
tuned to CES announcements. Google already sneaked a look at the
Motorola tablet (Honeycomb development reference) and Toshiba
announced their Honeycomb tablet today and CES has not even started.

Well, I didn't notice much news about how Honeycomb would change how
full-screen non-Java apps work on Android, but I did see mention of an
Android tablet with a barometric pressure sensor!

http://gizmodo.com/5729599

Cheers,

Rob

I was not talking about NDK vs SDK, you were.

My point was Honeycomb is changing the tablet landscape/eco system.
The Motorola Xoom and similar products with Honeycomb makes exiting
Android tables look pretty pathetic from hardware features and
horsepower and yes from capabilities in Honeycomb as well. That may be
more than the typical cockpit needs today but it is a dramatic move
forward for Android as a platform and I expect shows where all Android
tablet developers will be aiming for. If I was a software developers
wanting to be ahead of the curve I'd be working to get my hand on a
Xoom as soon as possible (the Xoom is the Honeycomb reference/
development platform at Google). I will be buying one.

I am not convinced at all that soaring apps should be full NDK apps.
There are lots of arguments for doing much of the UI using the
standard SDK and there is lots of opportunities for somebody who wants
to do something really compelling. One day the world needs to move on
from having stuff look and behave like Windows CE crap running on a
resistive touch screen. A really modern UI in a soaring app (e.g.
multitouch and other bells and whistles) would be much more
compelling. Play with Google Maps on an iPad or Xoom and then compare
that to what passes for a UI on Windows Mobile PDA apps... and don't
get me started about the awful UI on several soaring flight
computers.

Darryl