Android 2.2: Froyo
Froyo is short for "frozen yogurt." It is a frozen dessert made from yogurt, so it is slightly more sour than soft serve but also lower in fat. Following are the features of Froyo.
Android 2.2 mainly improved speed by adopting the Javascript "just-in-time" compiler engine from Google's browser, Chrome. It also improved browser support by adding animated GIF support and Flash 10.1 plug-in support, along with USB tethering and Wi-Fi Hotspot capability.
Froyo is short for "frozen yogurt." It is a frozen dessert made from yogurt, so it is slightly more sour than soft serve but also lower in fat. Following are the features of Froyo.
- Speed, memory, and performance optimizations
- Additional application speed improvements, implemented through JIT compilation
- Integration of Chrome's V8
- Support for the Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, enabling push notifications
- Improved Microsoft Exchange support, including security policies, auto-discovery, GAL look-up, calendar synchronization and remote wipe
- Improved application launcher with shortcuts
- USB tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot functionality
- Option to disable
- Updated Market application with batch and automatic update features
- Quick switching between multiple keyboard languages and their dictionaries
- Support for a Bluetooth-enabled car and desk docks
- Support for numeric and alphanumeric passwords
- Support
- The browser now shows all frames of animated gifs instead of just the first frame
- Support for installing applications
- Adobe Flash support
- Support for high-PPI display (up to 320pi), such as four-inch 720p screens
- Gallery allows users to view stacks using a zoom gesture