![]() ![]() The use cases for this in video conferencing are clearly apparent. When another person comes into frame and begins talking, the camera will then focus on that person instead. It was a head-tracking API called Virtual Camera Operator which detects when a person is speaking, and then refocuses the device’s front-facing camera on that person. For example, developers will be able to change the size of the above-mentioned Action Bar, so it takes up more or less room on the screen.Ī new Ice Cream Sandwich API was demonstrated on stage at the I/O event, however. ![]() How exactly these tablet-inspired features will be ported to the smaller screen, or in which cases they would be ported, is still somewhat unclear.Īccording to Google, Ice Cream Sandwich will intelligently adapt itself to the form factor it’s running on and provide developers with APIs to modify other elements of the interface when needed. Ice Cream Sandwich will also bring Honeycomb’s “holographic user interface, more multitasking, the new launcher and richer widgets,” says Google. This includes, among other things, the “Action Bar,” which puts contextual actions at the top of the screen, and which vary by application. Officially announced at Google I/O, the developer conference held this week in San Francisco, Ice Cream Sandwich will introduce some of the user interface concepts now found in Honeycomb.
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