We're not waiting for android 5 'jelly bean,' developers say - Infrared Emitter Detector

Unconfirmed reports say that Android 5 "Jelly Bean" could be released this fall, featuring such improvements as Chrome browser integration , better enterprise security, better power management, and maybedual-booting support for Microsoft's Windows 8 . Google did not respond to requests for comment about its futureOS plans. But Android developers at this week's AnDevCon developer conferencewere too busy dealing with current releases like Android 4 "Ice Cream Sandwich" to stall their development efforts for yet another OS upgrade."You have to deal with what's available now," said Chris Morris, adeveloper for the Weather Channel. [ Xamarin this week began offering a designer tool for Android applications that will work with Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE. AC DC Switch Mode Power Supply

| Subscribe to InfoWorld's Developer World newsletter for the latest insights and news on software development. ] "Jelly Bean" does sound interesting, said Michael Luongo, adeveloper specializing in media-sharing application at TechSmith.He's been building "Ice Cream Sandwich" applications for about sixmonths. "Everybody I think wants to monetize [their application]now," so news of a possible new Android version isn't derailingcurrent efforts. Developers David Mathisen, of Allegiance Software, and TeresaJiminez Arreola, of France Telecom R&D, had similar sentiments.Neither wants to hold off and wait for Android's next upgrade. "Iwant to make sure that everybody can use our app that has anAndroid phone," Mathisen said. Infrared Emitter Detector

But Jiminez Arreola did acknowledgeAndroid fragmentation as a problem: "Sometimes, you need toimplement different tools to actually make the application work indifferent versions," she said. For example, there are four versionsof Android used in current devices: 2.2 "Froyo," 2.3 "Gingerbread,"3.0 "Honeycomb," and 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich." The upgrade ofrecent and current devices to the universal "Ice Cream Sandwich" has been slow . Next month's Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco could provide a forum for Google to officiallyunveil "Jelly Bean." In the meantime, developers at AnDevConlearned about happenings in the Android development tools space,including the anticipated arrival of a GL debugger, which willprovide support for the OpenGL 2D/3D graphics API, such as to debugrendering artifacts and rendering issues, said Romain Guy, asoftware engineer at Google. This article, " We're not waiting for Android 5 'Jelly Bean,' developers say ," was originally published at InfoWorld.com . Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. Door Release Push Button Manufacturer

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