Google on Monday disclosed more details about Android 3.0, nicknamed “Honeycomb,” prior to the operating system’s official unveiling, scheduled for Wednesday. Honeycomb is designed from the ground up for tablets and has a new holographic user interface. It includes a so-called Action Bar to let users control their apps, offers five customizable home screens and has additional connectivity features. Honeycomb is backwards compatible with applications developed for earlier versions of Android, or apps developed for smaller-screen sizes.
I think your statement, "(Honeycomb) app developers must code their apps to take advantage of multiple cores...Apple developers get this functionality for free" is misleading. App developers on both sides need to take their code and break it into threadable pieces. After that they can turn to the OS threading functions/utilities to schedule and dispatch those pieces.
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Android Lures Tablet Devs Into Honeycomb
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 31, 2011 12:09 PMGoogle on Monday disclosed more details about Android 3.0, nicknamed “Honeycomb,” prior to the operating system’s official unveiling, scheduled for Wednesday. Honeycomb is designed from the ground up for tablets and has a new holographic user interface. It includes a so-called Action Bar to let users control their apps, offers five customizable home screens and has additional connectivity features. Honeycomb is backwards compatible with applications developed for earlier versions of Android, or apps developed for smaller-screen sizes.