Google Android SDK comes next Monday
After months of Gphone anxiety, Google announces their Gphone is really a bunch of phones running a common software that is open sourced and shared by big names in the industry like Motorola, HTC, Samsung and many others.
Android™ will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. On November 12, we will release an early look at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) to allow developers to build rich mobile applications.
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Good news, but there is very few details about the platform itself.
I see 3 options for Android on the table:
Option 1) it comes with a native open source JVM. This is the Blackberry approach and the best scenario. It will enable running existing J2ME applications (thousands exist today) and Google will provide more powerfull APIs for their integrationg with their application suite, like GMail, Google Maps and YouTube. GPS APIs would be great too. They will also provide a custom Java based UI toolkit to make applications consistent with the phone UI. IDEs will be Netbeans and Eclipse. The low level access to the underlying Linux OS would be hidden from the developer.
Option 2) The JVM is not part of Android, but available as a addon. This is Palm approach (IBM provides the JVM for Treos). In this case, Esmertec will likely provide a non open source JVM to run J2ME apps to each phone vendor. This is OK but not very good, as the JVM may or may not be present and they will be no integration with existing app or UI toolkit. Developer will have to code all apps running on Android with C or C++ APIs using Eclipse. the SDK will be very similar to the now defund Palm Foleo or the Nokia Linux Maemo platform.
Option 3) No JVM, but a powerfull mobile Web Browser ala Safari, based on the Safari WebKit, which is open source, to runn local mobile AJAX apps written in Javascript and DHTML. Google would provide in the browser custom APIs as Javascript libraries to integrate with the platform and custon Javacript UI compomenents. This will be similar to the current iPhone development and also like the Google widget developement. This is ambitious and risky and will not work for mutimedia or game apps. This is not GREAT, but this is OK, specially if they can integrate some version of Google Gears, enabling mobile AJAX apps to run offline.
OR ... all 3 options ? Anyway we will know in 1 week time.
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on November 6, 2007 at 11:50 AM - LINKhttp://www.ohadev.org Given the recent news of the “g-phone” and the Open Handset Alliance. A new website has been launched to facilitate coordination between developers who intend to use the “Android SDK” from google.
please visit: http://www.ohadev.org
on November 9, 2007 at 02:57 AM - LINKAfter all the excitement about the Android platform, a community for Android developers has been set up called http://www.androiddeveloper.com which is a central hub where developers can discuss and learn about the Android platform.
A different site called http://www.androidmobileforum.com has also been set up for everyone to discuss anything about Android mobile.
It looks like theres going to be a lot of talk before we even get the first Android mobile devices in late 2008.
on November 11, 2007 at 10:47 PM - LINKThats a great news. But i have searched the site today (12 Nov) and was not able to find the SDK. To see more about Android visit our site..
on November 12, 2007 at 04:54 PM - LINK