Android Developers Will Need to Retool Some Apps for Ice Cream Sandwich

[dgstorm]

Google's Android Developers blog is giving Honeycomb developers a heads-up that very soon they will need to start recoding some of their apps. As becomes obvious when you stop to think about it, many apps were designed specifically for the larger screen of an Android Tablet, but these apps will probably look pretty messed up when scaled to a smaller screen. This will soon be necessary as Ice Cream Sandwich will be the primary OS of choice for Android devices within the next couple of months. Here is the friendly ultimatum that the Android Developers blog offered,

So, if you’ve developed a tablet app on Honeycomb, it’s important that your app do one of two things: prevent installation on smaller screens or (preferably) support smaller screens with the same APK.

You can read more at the Android Developers Blog source link below.

Yummm! That ICS looks tasty.... now I'm hungry...

Source: Android.net via Engadget and Android Developers Blog

 

[trestevenson]

Yummm! That ICS looks tasty.... now I'm hungry...

I was thinking the same thing. :sad: