Gingerbread is lurking inside your Honeycomb tablet [video]

By on May 20, 2011 at 5:35 PM
Software May 20, 2011

Gingerbread is lurking deep in the recesses of your Honeycomb, Android tablet. According to a report filed by mobile blog Pocketables, the interface you’re presented with on your Honeycomb tablet can be changed by adjusting your tablet’s perceived screen density. On a rooted Dell Streak 7 running Android 3.1, the default interface experience is the new Honeycomb UI — complete with updated widgets, homescreens, and controls. By changing a single line, thereby tricking that tablet into thinking its pixel density is 170 instead of 160, the Gingerbread layout is presented upon reboot. What does this mean for you? Nothing… but it is pretty cool to see in action. Hit the jump to see a video demo and let us know what you think.

[Via Engadget]

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  • Anonymous

    Anyone with access to the Honeycomb SDK knew this in January.

    • badfishie

      Why do you read these blogs if you know more than anyone else?

  • http://profiles.google.com/rohenaz Lucas Rohenaz

    This is not new news – running honeycomb in an emulator with phone density settings does the same thing. This is almost like saying windows 2000 is hidden inside of windows XP and you can see it by changing the “theme” to “classic”. They don’t entirely rewrite an OS with every iteration. Google has been working to merge the various versions of android and announced at Google I/O that ice cream sandwich will be one platform that will run on all devices – as in tablets, phones, televisions, and whatever other variations of screen density / resolution / dimensions. How do they decide which UI components are most efficient for that device? By the properties of the dang screen of course.

    • Anonymous

      Does this mean Honeycomb is more of a skin over Gingerbread like SBP Mobile Shell?

      • Eric

         Yep exactly.

      • http://AndroidTaskForce.com Chris Gustafson

        Only everywhere. Not just the launcher. 

  • http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

     So the idea is to keep digging and eventually.. maybe.. just maybe.. you might find an OS in there 1/2 as good as iOS… maybe… like in 2014…   

    Yea, glad I didn’t waste my $ even testing one of these.

    • http://twitter.com/tentaclebernard Bernard Bernoulli

      Oh brother.

      Look, we all know there are people like you that adore iOS.  But we also all know that most users are bored by iOS and want a major UI overhaul.  iOS has been cribbing from the Android playbook and taking the ideas for a couple years now.  Apple created widgets (only for their apps) is coming.  Ability to truly customize the desktop with live folders and such is coming.  Better notifications is coming.  All the things Android aces will one day be part of iOS.  So relax and enjoy what the competition has done to fix your tired iOS.

  • Anonymous

    And your Honeycomb tablet is lurking inside Best Buy, since the Honeycomb tablets aren’t selling. 

  • http://twitter.com/jj_hh1 J Hamburg

    That Gingerbread guy looks quite Mongroid – must be brother of Android

  • Anonymous

    So 3.0 is really 2.3. The fragmentation is fragmented. Lol and people ask me why I develop for ios and not android.

    • 350zEr

      So because I can display a Windows 95 UI essentially by disabling some things in 7 that means it’s Windows 95?

      Pointless to even try logic on you…you’re image and name says it all. A person who actually thinks people who chose android made the wrong and stupid decision.

      Lol people like you…

      • 350zEr

        Your… this is why I rarely use swype or T9

    • Steve Hillshire

      With so much of your time dedicated to commenting on Android stories, you could have fooled me.  Maybe you should spend a little more time “developing” and a little less time being an apphole.

      • Anonymous

        Maybe spend some time myofb. My apps make lots and lots of cash on there own.

      • Bringit

         their

      • Anonymous

        Huh their what?

  • Anonymous

    Lurking? Your fanboy is showing.  

  • Anonymous

     You know If I turn a thing off in windows 7 I can get windows 95 no big deal 

  • Mike

     Lipstick on a pig at its fullest!!! 

  • JL Jones

    The “news” here is that Honeycomb finally got ported to the Streak 7, much needed to take advantage of the underutilized capabilities of Tegra 2.  Still don’t understand why Dell didn’t just build the 7 with Honeycomb (seeing that it was in development as Dell was readying the 7).  Sure, there are still some bugs and issues to be worked out but here’s to DJ Steve, Graphix and HellzYa and everyone else – my donation is forthcoming!

    • http://twitter.com/graffixnyc Patrick Hill

      Thanks :) Steve gets most of the credit though. Me and Hellz just helped him out :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HHYXLC7BR4UXD3AE4EU5JLJC24 Tanya

    LOL That’s the gingerbread man from the Shrek Movies

  • Abram

    I still don’t understand why everyone has such a hard time grasping this concept. Lets say it together everyone, “ONE OS for ALL DEVICES” The OS will determine the best interface to present to the user based on the hardware being used…. either the “Honeycomb” (TABLET) interface or the standard Android interface (PHONE).

    Google is using this same approach for apps, too, so devs write one app for all devices.

  • http://twitter.com/Nobreadforme Ted Yates

     would someone PLEASE put gingerbread on my atrix. gingerblur isnt quite there

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