Its really big day for android as Gingerbread v2.3 SDK is now available for download.

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At last At last the Gingerbread android v2.3 is out for the developers worlds. Thought it was expected to be expected to be launched in mid November at Web 2.0 summit. Though Google CEO Eric Schmidt show what the v2.3 can do at that event.

Add Android V 2.3 SDK [developer.android].

The new version of android v2.3 features:

• Faster, more intuitive text input
• Simple UI with speed
• One-touch word selection and copy/paste
• Improved power management
• Near-field communications
• Downloads management
• Enhanced for gaming
• Rich multimedia

New Platform Technologies

Media Framework

• New media framework fully replaces OpenCore, maintaining all previous codec/container support for encoding and decoding.
• Integrated support for the VP8 open video compression format and the WebM open container format
• Adds AAC encoding and AMR wideband encoding

Linux Kernel

• Upgraded to 2.6.35

Networking

• SIP stack, configurable by device manufacturer
• Support for Near Field Communications (NFC), configurable by device manufacturer
• Updated BlueZ stack

Dalvik runtime
+ Dalvik VM:

1. Concurrent garbage collector (target sub-3ms pauses)
2. Adds further JIT (code-generation) optimizations
3. Improved code verification
4. StrictMode debugging, for identifying performance and memory issues

+ Core libraries:

1. Expanded I18N support (full worldwide encodings, more locales)
2. Faster Formatter and number formatting. For example, float formatting is 2.5x faster.
3. HTTP responses are gzipped by default. XML and JSON API response sizes may be reduced by 60% or more.
4. New collections and utilities APIs
5. Improved network APIs
6. Improved file read and write controls
7. Updated JDBC

+ Updates from upstream projects:

1. OpenSSL 1.0.0a
2. BouncyCastle 1.45
3. ICU 4.4
4. zlib 1.2.5

Src: [Developer.android]

Its really big day for android as Gingerbread v2.3 SDK is now available for download.