Hardware accelerated elements in Gingerbread..?

[jrdatrackstar1223]

I know real hardware acceleration is supposed to come in ICS 2.4 (I still don't think Android will be that much smoother, but that's just me....), but I think there are a few places where Hardware acceleration is present in Gingerbread. Everyone knows 3D app drawer is, but I've also found that button presses on the Calculator app draw a white line around the button pressed at an appear-disappear framerate that seems accelerated. Also, little grey windows that show small messages like "Text coppied to clipboard" seem like they're accelerated because their frame rate is too smooth to be CPU-drawn.

Any other ones people notice that are OS-baked in?

 

[splmonster]

ICS will be 4.0. As for hardware accelerated UI elements, well some are there. Other devices that are not pure vanilla Android also have hardware accelerated UI's on the launchers they provide. I do notice a few of them here and there. But ultimately for me... Android is super smooth on the Nexus S. Don't know how much more hardware acceleration will change much more of that.

 

[Ryuuie]

There's no number for ICS, Google doesn't even have one set up yet. Check the latest beta ICS pics.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

There's no number for ICS, Google doesn't even have one set up yet. Check the latest beta ICS pics.

No one should be using those pictures a reference point to ICS.

1) They're not confirmed
2) They look highly fake
3) I remember someone saying somewhere that ICS WASNT going to have acceleration. Don't quote me I don't know if that was confirmed.

The Nexus is smooth. Yes, but I get it to lag a lot. So, with that being said: I could use whatever they throw at us to make it smoother. I get mine to lag on a screen at least 80% of the time. Maybe I'm scrolling and switching too fast; but, stop me if I'm wrong: a computer should be able to "physically" keep up with the human brain to motor function.

 

[Ryuuie]

No one should be using those pictures a reference point to ICS.

1) They're not confirmed
2) They look highly fake
3) I remember someone saying somewhere that ICS WASNT going to have acceleration. Don't quote me I don't know if that was confirmed.

The Nexus is smooth. Yes, but I get it to lag a lot. So, with that being said: I could use whatever they throw at us to make it smoother. I get mine to lag on a screen at least 80% of the time. Maybe I'm scrolling and switching too fast; but, stop me if I'm wrong: a computer should be able to "physically" keep up with the human brain to motor function.

They look fake to you, but again, early build and all. Either way, "Android 4.0" is just Android blog speculation.

ICS will use hardware acceleration, it was stated at Google I/O.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

They look fake to you, but again, early build and all. Either way, "Android 4.0" is just Android blog speculation.

ICS will use hardware acceleration, it was stated at Google I/O.

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Good to know.

I still don't think that unconfirmed photos should be used as reference though.

 

[Ryuuie]

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Good to know.

I still don't think that unconfirmed photos should be used as reference though.

It's still speculation as to what number it'll be. It could be 4.0 or 2.4 or something totally different.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

It's still speculation as to what number it'll be. It could be 4.0 or 2.4 or something totally different.

4.0 makes sense. If it takes current Android for phones 2.x. and tabs are 3.x. we should go 4.0 and stay on track from there.

 

[Ryuuie]

4.0 makes sense. If it takes current Android for phones 2.x. and tabs are 3.x. we should go 4.0 and stay on track from there.

It makes sense but it's still speculation made up by blogs so no one really knows what it'll be.