Following yesterday's announcement of the first 4G handset for Sprint, the company earlier today posted a bunch of new helpful information to their Android Developers site to guide developers around the newly introduced features never before seen on an Android phone, or even *any* mobile phone.
Here is the new stuff that what we found there:
- general documentation updated with references to HTC EVO 4G
- 4G Developer Guide - Sprint_HTC_EVO_4G_Developer_S_Guide
- detecting different network types (4G, 3G, WI-FI) and handling transitions as they occur
- utilizing HDMI output in your application
- how to incorporate the forward facing camera into your application
- using some of the HTML 5.0 tags in your web page including Location and Video
- HTC EVO 4G Code Samples
- HTC EVO 4G - HTML5 Location Sample
- HTC EVO 4G - HTML5 Video Sample
- HTC EVO 4G - HDMI Video Sample (spelled, HDML on the site. Seriously, Sprint, do you have monkeys entering this?)
- HTC EVO 4G - Network Status
Sprint's developer guide for the HTC EVO 4G handset provides best practices on:
So, developers, get on that front facing camera API and let's see some cool video conferencing apps that iPhone can only dream about!
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You're right that these are probably new programming issues for independent developers.
However they're not all entirely new features never before seen on any mobile phone. Video calling and front-facing cameras have been available in the UK since "3" launched the UK's first 3G network back in 2003.
Not that anybody ever gave us an API to access them way back then though
um... there's no api reference included for the front facing camera api... did you at least read the reference guide?
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