A new tidbit has come to light thanks to a couple of Android engineers, Romain Guy and Chet Haase over at the Android Developers blog. They’ve touted that as part of the Android 4.0 ICS update, devices should experience better hardware acceleration by default. It turns out that this is the same hardware acceleration that can be found in our beloved Android 3.2 Honeycomb for tab’s however, for the tab version, enabling of the GPU was required via command line. Meaning, experience for the end user post ICS is going to change up a bit.
We should see smoother and faster UI scrolling and navigation throughout the device entirely. Animations should be quick and fluid with this latest iteration. It shouldn’t matter whether or not a dev has enabled the GPU acceleration. Because lets face it, though we’re not particularly all iPhone or Windows Phone 7 fans, we have to admit that scrolling on those devices tends to always be naturally smooth and quick. And though we love Android, most devices tend to have a bit of a “choppy” experience. Well, here’s to hoping that all changes with the roll out of Ice Cream Sandwich. But we’ll let you all be the judge of that. Now you just need to make sure that you have an ICS enabled and upgradable device when it comes.
[via Android Dev]