Eyeing the contacts in the Ice Cream Sandwich

It is now a contact - it is something more than just a telephone number or email for a certain individual. Apparently, this conclusion and on Google, decided to hold a number of significant changes in your address book Ice Cream Sandwich and related applications

Hugo Barra - Director of Product in Google revealed a new application «People», which is now gathered all possible information about all your contacts.



Very much has changed interface. One can see that Google are betting on its new social network Google +. Images for your contacts are now in the first place will be loaded from there. They will be used for avatars, as well as background during a call, or in some applications.

Now just have to attend to in order to get photos of friends and acquaintances in high resolution, because without them the system in some places will just look ugly with the default plugs. For example, imagine a widget chastovyzyvaemyh most contacts without photos.

According to the new API ICS, when you assign a contact avatar, then the system will automatically make a small preview image size of 96 * 96 (as previously), and 256 * 256 for different situations

Also the interface has received and the changes that are directly related to ease of use. True, it seems that some elements were taken from the Windows Phone. For example, gestures to switch between screens with information about the contact and a very similar design.

Also, there are features such as quick to send messages when harvested before resetting the incoming call. Of course, this functionality can be implemented easily by downloading a third-party software from the Market, but it's nice to see it is initially incorporated in the system.

Finally, we got a quick and easy access to any contact information from any application, Android. Write a letter to you, respond in Twitter or SMS, is now sufficiently tapnut on human avatar and you can immediately see his updates in social networks, as well as SMS except to quickly write something in skype or other messenger.