Over multiple releases we've built IE on the underlying support in Windows for
graphics hardware acceleration and fast, fluid touch input for modern devices.
Graphics hardware acceleration.
Not exact matches
There's a new notifications system, built - in video chat, and upgrades to
hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D
graphics, among other things.
Honeycomb 3.1 adds re-sizable widgets, a re-written multitasking and task switching engine, USB host support, USB input device support, and support for the
hardware graphics acceleration of Flash content available to tablets in Flash 10.2 which is available in the Market now.
So while the user interface seems to have better response times post the update, the over-all performance of the tablet itself is now better, something that can be attributed to the updated Honeycomb's support for
hardware graphics acceleration.
But a surprising number of things do work with the updated 3.0.50 kernel, including
graphic drivers for Android Jelly Bean, audio output, camera, Wi - Fi, Bluetooth pairing, sensors,
hardware acceleration, and HD YouTube and Netflix.
This was capable through the
hardware graphics acceleration the software employed.
The UI
graphics and animations got
hardware acceleration and Wi - Fi Direct functionality was now supported natively.
But Google worked closely with NVIDIA on the first version of Android 3.x Honeycomb to ensure support for features such as
hardware acceleration for 3D
graphics.
The Android 3.1 user interface relies on
hardware graphics acceleration, so after updating all sorts of animations and other visual effects are faster and smoother.
Adobe Flash Player for Android still doesn't support
hardware graphics acceleration, which means even the fastest phones and tablets can't yet support HD video playback, but according to Engadget Adobe plans to issue an update in a few weeks that will allow you to watch 720p HD video on the Motorola XOOM tablet and other devices with supported
hardware.
The
graphics programmers of the «90s who wrote software renderers might feel at home again today, but in between
hardware acceleration changed everything.
Raising Developer Expectations With
Hardware Acceleration, Increased Interoperability As part of its commitment to interoperability, Microsoft detailed its support for a number of HTML5 specifications, including CSS3, Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG), XHTML parsing, and the video and audio tags using industry - standard (H. 264 / MPEG4 and MP3 / AAC) codecs, among others.
Much like DirectX or more accurately, Direct3D, Metal is an application programming interface or API, which grants a programmer with low - level, low overhead access to
hardware graphics acceleration.
Liquid
Graphics is RIM's marketing term for the addition of
hardware acceleration in the BB 7 user interface and relates most directly to its speed and responsiveness.
It also requires
hardware graphics acceleration.