This presentation contains a quick overview of how your Android application can access the new tablet-oriented capabilities in Android 3.0 "Honeycomb".

1. How do you Honeycomb?
Android for Tablets
Sparky Rhode
Android Developer Relations

2. What is a Tablet?

3. Compared to...
Phone PC
a tablet is
more...
Powerful Convenient
Discoverable Personal
Fun Immersive

4. UX Guidance
More context
More discoverable
Fewer touches
Rich content
Fun transitions

5. New for Honeycomb
Fragments
Action Bar
Drag and Drop
Extended Widgets
Rich Notifications
Holo Theme
System Bar
RenderScript

6. Rethinking UX
Options menu Action bar
Forced orientation Rotation agnostic
Long press Drag and drop
Static keys System bar

7. Well, that's just ducky.
Now how do I do it?

8. Android 3.0 SDK
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0.html
API Level: 11
SDK Tools: r10

9. Holographic Theme
<manifest ... >
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4"
android:targetSdkVersion="11" />
<application ... >
...
<application>
</manifest>

10. Custom Themes
res/values/styles.xml
<style name="LightThemeSelector" parent="android:Theme.
Light">
</style>
res/values-v11/styles.xml
<style name="LightThemeSelector" parent="android:Theme.
Holo.Light">
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml
<activity android:theme="@style/LightThemeSelector">

11. Tablet Layout
Extra-large
Landscape
res/layout-land/
res/layout-xlarge-land/
res/layout-xlarge-port/

12. Action Bar Menu Resource
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.
com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/menu_add"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_save"
android:title="@string/menu_save"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText" />
</menu>

13. Fragments
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/fragments.
html
Layout
<fragment class="com.example.android.MyFragment"
android:id="@+id/titles" android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="0px" android:layout_height="match_parent" />
Class
public class MyFragment extends Fragment {
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
Bundle savedInstanceState) {
return inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_fragment, container, false);
}
}

14. Compatibility Library
Android OS 1.6 (SDK 4) and higher

15. Extra Credit
Enhanced Widgets
Rich Notifications
Property animation
Hardware acceleration
RenderScript

16. Useful URLs
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-3.0.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/
Fragments For All
Animation in Honeycomb
Introducing Renderscript
The Android 3.0 Fragments API

17. Q&A