Attendees at the AnDevCon conference, which attracted about 800 developers, heard Wednesday about the newly released , which makes accommodations for tablet devices; they also got a brief glimpse of future plans to bring Honeycomb capabilities to smaller-screen devices.

filed last summer, however, alleges that Android infringes Java patents and copyrights Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems. Oracle is seeking treble damages and an order stopping Google from any further infringement.

Some attendees, however, were not very familiar with the lawsuit, and AnDevCon conference chair Alan Zeichick, of BZ Media, said the litigation was not impacting the event. (AnDevCon was held this week in San Mateo, Calif., about 10 minutes from Oracle headquarters in Redwood City.) "I can can honestly say you were the first person to even bring it up," Zeichieck said.

But developer Sanjeev Tirunagaram said he did bring up the issue in a conference session on Monday. Still, Tirunagaram is not prepared to abandon Android development. "[The lawsuit] won't affect the developer at the end of the day because no matter what, they're not going to shut [Android] down. They're going to settle the case one way or the other," said Tirunagaram, a student at California State University, Northridge, and an intern at T-Mobile.