As posted in the Google Android Developers Blog:
Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs, you can write applications to enable users to sync their devices to various contact sources. You can also give users a faster way to communicate with others by embedding Quick Contact within your application. With the new Bluetooth API, you can now easily add peer-to-peer connectivity or gaming to your applications. To get a more complete list of the new capabilities you can add to your applications, please go to the Android 2.0 highlights page.
This is huge and a surprise that many people have been murmuring about lately. I just finished a little ditty on Android 2.0 not too long ago asking why it wasn’t made available to all developers. Well, now it is and this is great. We’ll definitely see app updates and hopefully most if not all devices can support this as well.
Here is a simple list of the updates people are interested (via endgadget):
- Support for multiple Google and Exchange accounts
- Third-party “sync adapters” allow apps to tie in to the phone’s sync services
- Quick contact menus for fast access to specific key pieces of contact information
- Unified email inbox
- SMS and MMS search
- Text message auto-delete after a user-defined thread size is reached
- Significantly improved camera controls with white balance, macro, effects, and more
- Improved keyboard layout, dictionary, and algorithm based on multi-touch support
- Double-tap zoom in browser, support for HTML5
- Bluetooth 2.1 support with addition of OPP and PBAP profiles
- “Better” graphics hardware acceleration
