Android 1.5's Live Folders
Live Folders are essentially shortcut views into a folder on the phone where you'll be able to view all the contents of your e-books, e-mails, RSS feeds, and playlists for example, without launching the application itself.
Google excited Android developers with an early version of its software developer kit for Android 1.5, the upcoming version of its mobile operating system. Included with it is a list of new features coming out, many of them suspiciously familiar to those Apple's iPhone already has. But here's one, that the iPhone doesn't have: Live Folders.
Live Folders are essentially shortcut views into a folder on the phone where you'll be able to view all the contents of your e-books, e-mails, RSS feeds, and playlists for example, without launching the application itself. Live Folders will also include real-time updating, so if a new e-mail comes in while you're viewing the in-box from your home screen, you'll see it appear.
The Live Folders feature could potentially be available on any third-party app you download from the Marketplace, though it seems to lend itself best to social, informational, and entertainment content--I'm thinking your Netflix queue, Facebook status updates, video playlist, and so on.
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