Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 21:07:33 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 39 Message-ID: <92gecgF20gU1@mid.individual.net> References: <92fte3FjeiU3@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4EztQNrCXFh4F9wE3tuCMAMq2ocqJLjNUq4v5QwBfk05uOEQQB Cancel-Lock: sha1:zRXzD+tw2aP86fq6km5aOl0yZzA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3584 On 05/05/2011 17:11, Steve Sobol wrote: > In article<92fte3FjeiU3@mid.individual.net>, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > says... > >>>> From the quick exploration I did, it does not even support AWT, > SWT or >>>> Swing. >>> >>> That?s right. Desktop-oriented GUIs are a waste of time on an ultramobile >>> device, as Microsoft found out with Windows Mobile. >> >> Only this year. >> A bit down the line and Tablets will be as powerful as today's desktop. > > MMmmmm, I don't know about that, I think it will probably take a little > longer than 6-8 months. I'd predict that by the start of 2012, tablets > *will* have made some advances, but they won't have gone that far yet. > > Keep in mind that mobile devices with dual-core CPU's are still the > exception, not the norm, and if you can find a tablet into which you can > put 4GB of RAM, please let me know, I'll go buy one... > Almost all the Honeycomb Tablets will be shipping with dual core ARM at 1GHz (Tegra 2) and 1GB RAM. The Tegra roadmap I have seen projects a 75x increase in performance over the next 4 years (inc the graphics). http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/02/tegra-roadmap-revealed-next-chip-worlds-first-quadcore-mobile-processor/ "While demonstrating Project Kal-El was exciting, we also gave a glimpse of our roadmap here at MWC. It includes Projects codenamed Wayne, Logan, and Stark, coming out in a steady one-year cadence over the next three years. You might well ask, What on earth can be done with nearly 75x improvement in performance over Tegra 2 that Stark will provide in 2014? " -- Dirk http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology