Android 1.5 SDK

Android 1.5 SDK  offers you a great system delivered in the SDK (as library and system image) is the development counterpart to the Android 1.5 production system image, deployable to Android-powered handsets starting in May 2009. The system is fully compliant and includes no external libraries. This is the first version of the Android SDK that does not include the Maps external library.

The Android 1.5 system delivers an updated version of the framework API. As with previous versions, the Android 1.5 API is assigned an integer identifier — 3 — that is stored in the system itself. This identifier, called the "API Level", allows the system to correctly determine whether an application is compatible with the system, prior to installing the application.

Major Features:

1. On-screen soft keyboard
   
   • Works in both portrait and landscape orientation
   • Support for user installation of 3rd party keyboards
   • User dictionary for custom words
2. Home screen
   
   • Widgets
   • Bundled home screen widgets include: analog clock, calendar, music player, picture frame, and search
   • Live folders
3. Camera & Gallery
   
   • Video recording
   • Video playback (MPEG-4 & 3GP formats)
4. Bluetooth
   
   • Stereo Bluetooth support (A2DP and AVCRP profiles)
   • Auto-pairing
   • Improved handsfree experience
5. Browser
   
   • Updated with latest Webkit browser & Squirrelfish Javascript engines
   • Copy 'n paste in browser
   • Search within a page
   • User-selectable text-encoding
   • UI changes include:
   • • Unified Go and Search box
     • Tabbed bookmarks/history/most-visited screen
6. Contacts
   
   • Shows user picture for Favorites
   • Specific date/time stamp for events in call log
   • One-touch access to a contact card from call log event
7. System
   
   • New Linux kernel (version 2.6.27)
   • SD card filesystem auto-checking and repair
   • SIM Application Toolkit 1.0
8. Google applications (not available in the Android 1.5 System Image that is included in the Android SDK)
   • View Google Talk friends' status in Contacts, SMS, MMS, GMail, and Email applications
   • Batch actions such as archive, delete, and label on Gmail messages
   • Upload videos to Youtube
   • Upload photos on Picasa