Compatibility Across All Devices
After all of this discussion about phones, tablets, chipsets, peripherals, and so forth, it should be obvious that supporting the Android device market is not unlike supporting a PC market. Screen sizes range from a tiny 320×240 all the way up to 1920×1080 (and potentially higher on PC monitors!). On the lowest-end, first-gen device, you've got a paltry 500MHz ARM5 CPU and a very limited GPU without much memory. On the other end, you've got a high-bandwidth, multi-core 1-2GHz CPU with a massively parallelized GPU and tons of memory. First-gen handsets have an uncertain multi-touch system that can't detect discrete touch points. New tablets can support ten discrete touch points. Set-top boxes don't support any ...
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