yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Originally I was suggesting that Gingerbread would move towards a direction that makes it look more like Google TV (as well as the AOSP 3D gallery app, new Youtube app, and even Voice Actions app) - lots of black with glowing cool colored hues and lots of nice HW accelerated animations. This did not happen and instead we got a ugly mess that I like to refer to as a ugly Christmas tree glowing in outer space.

After seeing the Honeycomb sneak peak I now see that I was right -- or at least it seemed that way from the little I've seen of it. It looks sleek with a blue glowing hue and what seems like lots of HW accelerated animations. So my guess is that Gingerbread was created as a abrupt stop gap between what Android was and what it's destined to be -- think of it as what WM6.5 was to WM, and Honeycomb only being a big leap instead of the complete rewrite that WP7 was. It makes sense since Android's foundation still shows remnants of it's original BB-inspired origins (trackball needed [not so much with 2.3 tho], too many hardware buttons for a touch OS, etc.), Honeycomb is probably what Android would have been if iOS was the initial starting point of reference -- notice the changes they made like making the eliminating the hardware button and designing their functions into the OS itself, I bet we see this on future Android phones too.

If I'm right about this, and I have feeling that I am, this also probably means that a lot of the top design talent in the Android team / Google probably was assigned to Honeycomb and since Gingerbread and Honeycomb were being concurrently developed, Gingerbread probably got the lower talent - hence the ugly, engineered inspired UI.

Just my 2 cents.
[EVO 4G General] cfaherty:
I think it looks more half-baked. Like it crashed during bootup. I saw that creepy title on the battery use screen and it gave me pause.

I suspect what will happen is authors will bundle their own resources rather than use the Android ones.

I'm not versed in the theme capabilities of the OS, are there any? Are "themes" done right now by overwriting the Android resources, or have they been just swapping to a differently themed launcher.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Yeah, pretty much all graphic resources are found in a system file called framework-res.apk. You can replace most if not everything that you see. It's unfortunate though, I went to CM6 to seek refuge from the vomit inducing graphic design of HTC Sense but now stock Android is now becoming pretty ugly itself. I'll probably just go through the motions with stock (or just revert everything back to the okay looking Froyo theme) since I'm a purist but I'll definitely be counting the days towards Honeycomb.
[EVO 4G General] mitchellvii:
Here is good link explaining how to view Android on your computer:

http://gizmodo.com/5544988/how-to-try-android-froyo-on-your-computer
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
I still can't tell how I feel about the green accents ... some of the screens it has looked "too green" almost. On the AC site they have a big screen shot and it looks like a more acceptable green. I don't even know.
[EVO 4G General] david279:
http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/index

just for kicks
[EVO 4G General] Shinzul:
Not a whole lot of new features :(.

But this looks promising:

Incoming Google Video Chat for sure, but overall, it's kind of a letdown.
[EVO 4G General] nabbed:
There's a bunch of Evo commercials on tv ALL THE TIME.

Evo is Sprint's flagship phone.
[EVO 4G General] strung:
Concurrent garbage collector — The Dalivik VM introduces a new, concurrent garbage collector that minimizes application pauses, helping to ensure smoother animation and increased responsiveness in games and similar applications.

Faster event distribution — The plaform now handles touch and keyboard events faster and more efficiently, minimizing CPU utilization during event distribution. The changes improve responsiveness for all applications, but especially benefit games that use touch events in combination with 3D graphics or other CPU-intensive operations.

Applications that use native code can now receive and process input and sensor events directly in their native code, which dramatically improves efficiency and responsiveness.

Niiiice
[EVO 4G General] david279:
It would be nice for google voice out on our phone thru data like the client on gmail.com
[EVO 4G General] Sirchuk:
According to Engadget, Nexus One's are getting 2.3 as well, so doesn't that bode well for ROM's?
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
Very cool. Exciting times.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it. Plus the EVO Shift 4G (or whatever is called) is rumored to drop in January and it could steal Sprint's marketing spotlight. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see 2.3 come but I also wouldn't be surprised if it didn't come. It doesn't matter for me either way since I use CM which will have 2.3 on the EVO way sooner than Sprint officially will on ANY phone (new or old) anyway.

...so disappointed with the graphic direction in 2.3... who was the genius that thought a mid tone gray on black looked good? This is what I'd expect from a amateur theme designer on XDA - but as the official look of Android? Agh.
[EVO 4G General] david279:
i dont think anyone has ported over a n1 rom...wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
[EVO 4G General] jerryparid:
Time to hop on the Nexus one forum, gonna try to find that new multitouch KB
[EVO 4G General] supdawg:
Thing that caught my eye is the OS now helps to manage apps which are sucking up battery power.

IMO, huge improvement.

If it can close apps that are wake locking your device, that would be awesome.
[EVO 4G General] smkcbs10:
Well, one can hope for a solid dev 2.3 build and later possibly a leaked sprint 2.3 test build in Jan...Feb...March...April:D
[EVO 4G General] T Mac:
I'm wondering now if this is the time for HTC to push out their new version of Sense to all of their Android phones? Seems to be a good time for that update also.
[EVO 4G General] Ruki_Uki:
I agree. Is love to see the new Sense UI

Sent from my EVO's 4G :) You?........I thought so
[EVO 4G General] mitchellvii:
Tried it out.

Not many cosmetic changes. I am guessing it's all in the guts.
[EVO 4G General] T Mac:
Can I get a two for one on Gingerbread with Sense topping for my EVO....please! LOL
[EVO 4G General] stanglifemike:
Wish we would have gotten new bluetooth stacks to support bluetooth keyboards, etc...
[EVO 4G General] xhazyx:
How long does it usually take for the actual OS source to be released?

I'm looking forward to CM-powered Gingerbread

-May God bless You-
[EVO 4G General] barnacles10:
It'll be a while yet. Cyanogen will wait for source before anything which who knows but after that you gotta go through all the code and decipher it, then get it to boot on devices, then add cm goods
[EVO 4G General] david279:
i think the source for froyo was about a month and a 1/2 after the sdk.

Sent from my google tv.
[EVO 4G General] hellorenauldo:
Isn't the new Sense UI the same as the UI on the desire hd and Z? or is there more to it?
[EVO 4G General] sobis1dm:
@ everyone complaining about graphics/layout/aesthetics: why is it even a big deal? Google knows that only about 2% of android users are actually using what Google designs... the rest are skinned, modded, or otherwise customized by either a manufacturer or a dev team. In the end, Android could be drawn up in pink and we would all make it what we want. I'm glad they're spending time on what's under the hood rather than the paint job. It shows that they care about performance, and really is a sign if respect to everyone whose ever modded or themed their device.

Android's philosophy is that the OS is yours... so why do we care so much what Google paints over it?
[EVO 4G General] Neo3D:
Another link:

http://d.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html
[EVO 4G General] Sirchuk:
Yeah, it took a while for Froyo to come out officially from HTC/Sprint, but there were ROM's released well before that. They just got a little better once it was officially released.
[EVO 4G General] khov07:
thank you...

Thanks for bringing this up. Who cares what stock 2.3 looks like anyway? I am pretty sure EVO's will get an official 2.3 soon enough, probably sooner than most other devices. SenseHD + 2.3 will be awfully nice.

I am beginning to think that the EVO will be one of the rare devices that folks keep for a long time, akin to iPhone users, that continue to receive official OS updates to expand functionality.

Personally, I like my EVO as-is. Knowing I can get an under-the-hood upgrade makes it that much better, and only cements my opinion that this is the best phone I've ever used.
[EVO 4G General] Sirchuk:
Looks like Engadget pulled the article, they were wrong and 2.3 hasn't been pushed to N1's yet.
[EVO 4G General] david279:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182077

2.3 user guide

informative
[EVO 4G General] phi226:
if i have my phone rooted, will i have to unroot it apply gingerbread then re root it and download a rom, or can i just download the a rom that uses a gingerbread base???

thanks in advance
[EVO 4G General] d0cx:
it has some different details. i think that the Desire HD one has different Sense themes.
[EVO 4G General] jm5503:
So the sdk doesn't include a launcher or anything we can get up and running on our evos?
[EVO 4G General] SoFLO.:
Wait for a Gingerbread-based ROM. No need to unroot.
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
I got to admit, Nexus S is by far the only samsung phone worth buying. Just because the updates are handled by google and not samsung.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
you forgot to mention the intercept that was supposed to get froyo
[EVO 4G General] lovethexi23:
What are the main additions of gingerbread?
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
+1 10chars
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
ummm last i heard the EVO Shift 4G wasn't being released till mid 2011 supposedly its supposed to have a duel core although might have been bad info since there is like 6 different takes on the phone some saying 4" screen others saying 4.3" and others saying 3.7"
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
I'm going to say this once to head off the countless sheep who will ask...

Do not ask when Gingerbread will make it to the EVO.

Seriously, how the hell would any of us know? We're not psychics, we're not secret HTC/Sprint/Google/CIA/Mafia/Former KGB/NSA employees, we can't predict the future, so why on God's green Earth would you ask

us

?

Shut up, sit down, twiddle your thumbs, and wait for a press release from Sprint, HTC, Google, etc. announcing that Gingerbread will or will not be ported to the EVO. If you really want Gingerbread, go help Team Douche port it to be CyanogenMod 7. That's the most guaranteed way to get it to our phones.
[EVO 4G General] Cuppeerr:
+1

Swyped from my supersonic
[EVO 4G General] gatolsf:
has anyone else lost the ADB file? with the sdk update to 2.3
[EVO 4G General] robbiep:
Wonder if anyone will make a gingerbread theme for our EVO's in the mean time while we wait for the real thing.
[EVO 4G General] ssgelm:
Adb got moved to the platform-tools directory with the update.
[EVO 4G General] david279:
its in the platform-tools folder
[EVO 4G General] Sirchuk:
Just download a ROM, as they'll likely be out before an OTA is released. However, in the rare instance an OTA is released before a ROM, don't update or you will very likely lose root. Always wait for a ROM.
[EVO 4G General] davebu:
MIUI was a N1 rom and we got that working pretty well. Don't be surprised if the EVO is one of the first phones to get 2.3, it was the first to get 2.2 after the N1.
[EVO 4G General] gatolsf:
Thanks for the quick answer guys, how ever I can't seem to find it on any of the sdk folders by the way I'm running mac don't know if that matters
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
It was in Sprint's system for a early Jan release. I very highly doubt you'll see a dual core in it if it's released that early; plus I don't think HTC would be designing a dual core phone this early. Matter of fact, most people are pegging it as a modified Desire Z so expect the same 800 MHz Scorpion CPU or something similar.
[EVO 4G General] david279:
Im running a mac too. Hows about you do a spotlight search on the mac for adb.
[EVO 4G General] -Protos:
Breathe dude ............ whats with the screaming.

:rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] gatolsf:
I try that with the same results no luck
[EVO 4G General] david279:
here ya go..

early christmas
[EVO 4G General] gatolsf:
Thanks David.
[EVO 4G General] wrapkgb:
I would have to agree... Plus why does it matter if Sprint does or does not relase 2.3 to the EVO? Do you really think that CM and other verious developers won't port/rewrite 2.3 to the EVO??? It doesn't matter if Sprint rolls it out or not. AND if they do, don't hold your breath... Remember how long it was untill they offically rolled out Froyo?
[EVO 4G General] fr0st420:
Do you guys think the kb is installable on a Froyo rom? Or is the framework too different?
[EVO 4G General] david279:
Hey everyone i will post a system dump of the sdk here just gimmie a sec..
[EVO 4G General] Dioscorus:
What is that adb file? Is it the new keyboard?
[EVO 4G General] Mele:
Sprint will have 2.3 along with the new Sense UI! :D
[EVO 4G General] Cuppeerr:
Dude sprint released froyo for the evo like a week after it came out.

Swyped from my supersonic
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
You always seem to hook people up man, appreciated!@

By the way, I'm rocking Black Ops on PS3, you have it yet? ;)
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
so basically sprint is getting a cdma of the G2
[EVO 4G General] david279:
Ok here is the link. Im only leaving it up for a hour so not to destroy my dropbox account. Please mirror if you want.

......................... md5 62c03f305f018f4e288c69f87543461e

Sdk system dump
[EVO 4G General] wrapkgb:
I was trying to make a point lol

When your rooted you don't really pay attention to when the masses get the updates ;)
[EVO 4G General] david279:
I play black ops on the 360 im on my 3rd prestige. Its the sh*t....
[EVO 4G General] jm5503:
What's included in the dump??? Launcher 2.3???
[EVO 4G General] david279:
all files in /system including launcher, keyboard, etc. They may need to be modded to run in froyo. Im no dev just an enabler.
[EVO 4G General] thedudejdog:
i'll have a mirror up in about 5 minutes if you wanna pull this link
[EVO 4G General] david279:
Cool.

10char.
[EVO 4G General] Cuppeerr:
Ohhhh makes sense haha

Swyped from my supersonic
[EVO 4G General] thedudejdog:
link

http://www.mediafire.com/?14eaidqp8j4sosd
[EVO 4G General] jm5503:
Nothing installs..... :(
[EVO 4G General] david279:
well its for gingerbread so your gonna have to mod the apks
[EVO 4G General] thedudejdog:
it's not a flash-able .zip

it's a /system dump. you could flash this to your phone with a little work or just wait for a dev to pick it up.

it won't work but you'll be able to see it on your phone.

our best bet would be a port for another similar device that is already running 2.3
[EVO 4G General] jm5503:
Gingerbread System Dump!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/?14eaidqp8j4sosd

Thanks to David279 & TheDudeJdog
[EVO 4G General] runningwarrior08:
Is this legit? I'm downloading now to take a look at it..

Looking at the build.prop it does look legit. I know this can be easily edited but here is a quick build line showing date and version

codename=RELro.build.version.release=2.3ro.build.date=Wed Nov 24 13:29:43 PST 2010
[EVO 4G General] thedudejdog:
it's a system dump from the sdk. david dumped it and I mirrored it.
[EVO 4G General] Neotelos_com:
Remove this post, question answered as I was this
[EVO 4G General] david279:
md5 62c03f305f018f4e288c69f87543461e just to check
[EVO 4G General] david279:
gingerbread keyboard:p
[EVO 4G General] Jeremiah239:
AWESOME!!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] laydros:
Green seems to be Nexus S. The Android SDK version does have the new launcher icons and black taskbar, but the icons in the taskbar are the same colors they were before, just the new icon shapes.

I really like some of the new UI elements. More squared off edges, and I like that checkboxes don't show the checkmark outline when they are unchecked.

See attached.
[EVO 4G General] runningwarrior08:
Nice, how did you get it? I am getting a Parse error when I try to install it.
[EVO 4G General] jm5503:
Why? The system dump deserves its own thread away from the sdk right???
[EVO 4G General] Ruki_Uki:
Do you think the HTC keyboard will be different too??

Sent from my EVO's 4G :) You?........I thought so
[EVO 4G General] :
How you install it?
[EVO 4G General] Ruki_Uki:
Really!?!?

Sent from my EVO's 4G :) You?........I thought so
[EVO 4G General] Stalte:
Do NOT INSTALL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G General] david279:
I picked up the keyboard from another forum where the file was modded for froyo. Im trying to learn how to get these to install myself. Im no dev just an enabler.
[EVO 4G General] Jeremiah239:
Link? 10char
[EVO 4G General] DG4FREE:
Only thing really changed is the colors. I don't see why HTC would change theirs unless there was new features to add to it.
[EVO 4G General] Stalte:
Could you link us the keyboard.

Could someone upload it to Multiupload please media fire is not working for me
[EVO 4G General] jobryan26:
Here was the thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=863259
[EVO 4G General] david279:
http://android.modaco.com/content/t...313/android-2-3-keyboard-on-cm6/#entry1504216
[EVO 4G General] david279:
It looks like the androidmanifest file in the apks needs to be modded for them to install.
[EVO 4G General] Stalte:
Ok awesome thanks. All I need mirror to the system dump
[EVO 4G General] mmegalodon:
Interesting. Noticed that on someone else's screen grab of the sdk but didn't think much on it. Thank you. I like that lol

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[EVO 4G General] TheTruth:
any word if 2.3 supports dual core processors, multithreaded?? I know it will not help my evo, but I have a dual core tegra2 tablet hoping for threaded apps
[EVO 4G General] kamiller42:
I am guessing Sony probably had some significant influence on the improvements for gaming in Android. The Android based PSP will come in phone and non-phone versions. Got have an OS with a head in gaming to get it done.
[EVO 4G General] Cuppeerr:
That looks pretty cool

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[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
That looks hideous. Most inconsistent, ugly UI of all the modern OSs. Stock Froyo was okay and only a few updates away from being really good. Now we have what looks like a engineer designed UI.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
supposedly tablets are skipping 2.3 and going straight to 3.0 aka honeycomb from what i have read honeycomb is for tablets and android powered netbooks and gingerbread is for phones
[EVO 4G General] Crossrocker:
Yea but its gonna take time for HTC to put sense on it. So that means a few months. Evo is not htc's flagship device. Now would be a good time for cm huh? Yeah.
[EVO 4G General] lostnfound53:
Sweet!

10char
[EVO 4G General] Cuppeerr:
Holy crap dude. Froyo took no time at all.

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[EVO 4G General] EndlessDissent:
Perhaps you missed the numbers in the top row? A small change yes, but it's so annoying to have to go to the number/special character screen for that, especially when you're constantly switching between numbers and letters.

As far as HTC, nothing will probably change in their keyboard. This doesn't concern them in the least.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Aside from that one EVO Froyo update, Sprint's track record of updating isn't perfect.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
no need for sense but if they really want to then yeah sense isn't needed to run on the evo cm proves that just htc needs to release the basic gingerbread for those that don't want sense or hell we can always port the droid x version if it's asop
[EVO 4G General] david279:
This keyboard doesnt have any predictive text so thats kinda a bummer.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
if your talking about the epic that was samsungs fault and the hero is htc's cause no version of the hero has an ota update of froyo
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
I'm also pointing out that the updates weren't quick - Hero, Moment.
[EVO 4G General] rooster94:
Those two phones also weren't exactly "flagship" phones though. I would think that the Evo would be at least slightly higher on the list of priorities than those two phones ever were.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Time will tell but I ain't holding my breathe. I personally don't expect to see a 2.3 update for at least 2 months after the Nexus OTA.
[EVO 4G General] XxsydenxX:
Awesome, very happy about it..now if i could just install it on my current CM6.1 install.. i need a better keyboard.....

Also... Gingerbreads theme is really badass...
[EVO 4G General] housry23:
It doesn't really matter if we get it or not to me. Stay tuned and you can have 2.3 before regular users anyway. I'm sure it will be here on XDA long before Sprint and HTC release it for EVO users.

I have heard the EVO shift is a smaller version of the EVO with a full keyboard that slides. I am not 100% on that, but I honestly don't think it will be any better than what we already have. I honestly wouldn't want a dual core processor in my phone yet. By the time I am eligible for an upgrade the dual core will be refined and will be standard instead of expensive, so I will wait until all the guinea pigs have tested them out for me.
[EVO 4G General] LearnIIBurn:
I am so excited to be onboard with Android. Never thought my heart could skip a beat with the announcement on a cell phone OS update.
[EVO 4G General] craig198:
dude they are fixing the audio problems with video it sounds like. awesome. that was such a bad quality audio.
[EVO 4G General] Cuppeerr:
Nexus users got it today

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[EVO 4G General] ImmortalLuD:
No they didn't. And I would expect the Nexus One to get the update before anybody else, since it's still one of their developer phones...
[EVO 4G General] david279:
No they didn't.
[EVO 4G General] Cuppeerr:
Oh man my bad

Swyped from my supersonic
[EVO 4G General] david279:
**removed**
[EVO 4G General] krazyflipj:
How do you install? It won't install using Root Explorer
[EVO 4G General] david279:
I pushed it to my sdcard then installed it on my phone. Working great.
[EVO 4G General] jblazea50:
Did you have to delete the old android keyboard and then install the signedkey.apk? I tried installing the new one and it didn't install. Then I deleted the android keyboard using Titanium and installed the new one. But it kept force closing.
[EVO 4G General] XxsydenxX:
Eh, well as a consumer, I actually like the theme of 2.3.. ALOT...
[EVO 4G General] david279:
I never uninstalled anything. Try pushing this file to /system/lib/
[EVO 4G General] jobryan26:
looking sexy in 32 bits.
[EVO 4G General] Award Tour:
Well as a designer, my professional opinion is that this change makes it one of the worse looking modern mobile OS's. Not only that but it completely destroys the original identity of Android (light, matte, simplistic design with orange highlights).

You know to be honest, I'm not surprised. Google has always been awful in this area. Android started out promising (I'm talking design wise here) and with Froyo was just a update or two away from being pretty good. So although it started with promise, I'm not surprise to see that Google's engineering and testing culture crept it's way into Android's design process. Now it looks like a bright Christmas tree in space; well at least you'll now save 3.1% of battery life - oh wait, we don't even have OLED display so we're just stock with the ugly Christmas tree in outer space look.
[EVO 4G General] ms79723:
So absolutely no apps work with this?
[EVO 4G General] Crossrocker:
I tried it. Then I removed the .zip and still no go

I actually used root explorer..

A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on the IPhone. We now have the Htc Evo.
[EVO 4G General] WillJitsu:
I pushed this and got the keyboard working. The double tap spacebar to insert period isnt working. Does it work for you?
[EVO 4G General] david279:
Install the apk from post #141. It works for me.

EDIT:

I install the update.zip in recovery

then booted up and installed the apk

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both attached...