Ice cream sandwich and more
Long anticipated, this is the single operating system that will work on any tablet, phone or other Android device. It translates the Honeycomb system for phone users too.
Developers here very excited by quite a small development to take "widgets to the next level". They can be stretched horizontally or vertically with a few lines of xml.
Everything will be open source.
An Android device will be able to be a USB host, which means we can all plug devices in, such as a keyboard or a game console. The team demoe'd a giant tilting labyrinth - you can see a pic here:
Take, for example, Google's Android-connected exercise bike, which pumped heart rate data from the cycle to the phone mid-exercise, or the fun demo of a labyrinth marble game tilt-controlled with an Android tablet. This is a hacker's fantasy—a board that'll integrate an Android device with... whatever they can stick it into. Powerful stuff, and fertile dirt for crazily inventive minds.
The team also showcased a pretty cool head-tracking development where the device can follow who is speaking in a conversation, or knows to zoom into a particular part of the face.
