TTS Extended 3.0 pushed to Market

[clchen]

Hi everyone,

We've finally flipped the switch and pushed out TTS Extended 3.0 to
Market. This brings TTS Extended in line with the TTS service as it is
in Froyo (bug fixes, updated settings UI with more options for TTS
plugins).

Also, since TTS Extended is now identical to the platform TTS in
Froyo, we are end-of-lifing TTS Extended and have set a max SDK cap on
it for version 7 (Eclair). TTS Extended will continue to be available
for older devices as a way to make Froyo TTS features available on
devices which have not been upgraded to Froyo yet.

The TTS Extended library stub (TextToSpeechBeta) extends the
platform TTS, so if the user is on Froyo and thus does not have TTS
Extended installed, it will simply fall through to the platform TTS.
For developers that are using TTS Extended, please note the following:

-The original "TTS" class is deprecated (and has been since Donut).
Please use "TextToSpeechBeta" instead.

-We strongly recommend that you do NOT insist on the user installing
TTS Extended. If you use TextToSpeechBeta, it will automatically fall
through to the platform TTS. If you must force TTS Extended, at least
do a check to make sure the user is on a pre-Froyo build; otherwise,
you will be locking out newer users from your app.

Once again, a huge THANK YOU to everyone for your support! We look
forward to hearing all the creative talking apps that you build on
Android. :)

-Charles