Google has published a preview of the Android 3.0 SDK

Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) is a new version of the Android platform, which is designed from the ground up for devices with large screens, in particular for tablets. It presents a new “holographic” interface theme and interaction model, which is based on multitasking, notifications and widgets.



Today, Google has published a preview of the Android 3.0 SDK, with inconclusive APIs and system images, to allow developers to start testing their tablet apps and start exploring the new user interface model, APIs and features that will be available in Android 3.0.

An overview of the new features and capabilities of Android 3.0 can be found here .
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Also published updates for the SDK (r9), NDK (r5b) tools and the ADT plug-in for Eclipse (9.0.0).

To learn how to start developing or testing applications using the Android 3.0 SDK preview, see the Preview SDK Introduction . Detailed information about changes in the latest versions of the tools is available on the SDK , NDK and ADT plugin pages.

Please note that applications developed using the preview platform Android 3.0 will not be able to be published in the Android Market. The final SDK for creating and publishing apps for Android 3.0 will be released in the coming weeks.