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Android Honeycomb SDK Breaks Through the Preview Tape and Gets Officially Released

If you’re like me, you may have been playing a little with the emulator in the Honeycomb SDK pre-release. Well, now they have released the official Honeycomb SDK with finalized APIs (and hopefully a much better emulator experience).  You can now run your applications in the emulator to test for compatibility and I’m sure there’s much more goodness to play around with.  I’ve got the new release downloading while I’m writing this article and hopefully will have some news for you soon.

Android 3.0 Platform

API Level: 11

For developers, the Android 3.0 platform is available as a downloadable component for the Android SDK. The downloadable platform includes an Android library and system image, as well as a set of emulator skins and more. The downloadable platform includes no external libraries.




Honeycomb home screen

Honeycomb home screen




There are so many very cool and new features in Honeycomb and most of it has been covered before, but with the release of the Motorola Xoom now on pre-order and coming soon, we are all eager to play around more and see what a real Android Tablet can do.




Honeycomb Tasks

Honeycomb Tasks




If you’re technical enough to already have the SDK installed, fire up the SDK Manager and download the Honeycomb SDK as soon as you can. If you don’t already have the SDK installed, head over to the Android SDK Download page and put your bandwidth to work.