Android Gets a Better Browser, Now With More HTML5

October 27th, 2009 admin

Android got a boost Tuesday when Google announced its Android SDK now supports version 2.0 of the open-source platform for mobiles. There’s a whole mess of new features in Android 2.0 (aka “Eclair”) but the big news for Webmonkeys is the enhanced WebKit-powered browser. The Android browser gets an updated UI — tap the address bar for instant searches, double-tap to zoom in on content wells — and better bookmarks that incorporate thumbnail images of the pages. Also included is support for several of HTML5’s APIs for building next-gen web apps: the Geolocation API, the Database API for managing client-side SQL databases and data caching support for…


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