android sdk 2.2多媒体方面的更新

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Media

• New APIs in  android.media.AudioManager   for managing audio focus, transport control, transient loss of audio focus, ducking.
• New broadcast intent for routing audio to SCO —  ACTION_SCO_AUDIO_STATE_CHANGED   with extras indicating new state.
• New APIs in  SoundPool   to detect completion of sound-loading.
• New APIs in  SoundPool   for auto pause and resume.
• New APIs in  MediaRecorder   for specifying audio settings for number of channels, encoding and sampling rates, sampling rate.
• New APIs for adding files to the media database, so that they are automatically scanned. SeeMediaScannerConnection.scanFile   and  MediaScannerConnection.OnScanCompletedListener .

Speech recognition and third-party recognition engines

• The platform provides new speech-recognition APIs that allow applications to have a richer interaction with the available voice recognizer. For example, the APIs are sufficient to integrate voice recognition deeply into an IME.
• The platform also provides a  RecognitionService   base class that lets third-party developers create plug-in recognition engines.
• New  RecognitionListener   interface to receive callbacks.
• New  RecognizerIntent   extras that let a requester app specify details as preferred language, minimum length in milliseconds, and so on.

Camera and camcorder

• Changes to camera preview API to improve efficieny of preview pipeline.
• New display orientation for camera (it can now work in portrait orientation).
• New APIs in  android.hardware.Camera   for managing zoom level.
• New APIs  android.hardware.Camera.Parameters   for querying and setting device camera settings such as focal length, exposure, zoom level, view angle, and others.
• New  thumbnail   utility for video and image thumbnails.
• New  CamcorderProfile   and  CamcorderProfile   classes enable apps to determine device hardware camera capablities.
• New support in  android.media.ExifInterface   for retrieving GPS and focal length.