Google releases new Android SDK
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Feb 13th 2008 3:34PM
posted Feb 13th 2008 3:34PM
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Maybe this will push Apple to release theirs now.
Love competition!
Doubt it - Apple's business strategy is not like Google's, they don't provide free stuff.
Or maybe apple will release a bootcamp equivalent for iphone to boot android. Yes, in my dreams.
Well, the last thing you want Apple to do is rush an unfinished product out the door. Let's hope they take their time and do it right. Apple can't afford to have a lousy SDK for such the highly-touted iPhone. iPhone sales are going to hinge on the SDK being able to create unique applications for a unique platform. It will be the last gasp for the iPhone 1.0 to show the world it's capabilities. As it is, I think the iPhone juggernaut has already run out of steam.
Android keeps looking better and better, can't wait to see the final product!
Did you say tighten up the graphics?
http://tightenedmupthegraphics.ytmnd.com/
Oh, functionality. That's easy.
Bout time more development is put into the UI than the hardware... Don't get me wrong, I love new hardware too.
It'd better have access to the chat app in gmail... damn phones / companies ripping us all off with text messages when we're paying for unlimited internet data...
There are MANY IM applications, regardless of OS, for mobile phones.....Jivetalk, IM+ to name a couple of multi-client apps. Google and AIM both have official clients for many OS's.
Oh yeah, if you want to PAY for an IM app... I mean I'd gladdly pay for IM+ if it were $5, but it's $40. $40!!! Sorry, I don't have that kind of money to spend on phone apps.
Trust me, IM on mobile phones have a ways to go. Currently on Palringo and even then you have to signup for their service to use. WHY can't there just be a simple AIM app where I don't have my username and pass through another company. I gon't have to sign up for a PIDGIN account to use PIDGIN then why do I need a Palringo account?
The AIM for Mobile developed by AOL doesn't even have a CAB available, So I can't even get it on my WM6 phone without having to set up active sync. Which shouldn't be required when you have no Windows XP to install Active Sync on.
There is an older version of the AIM application floating around. If you know where to look you can find it. Check out HoFo or the XDA forums.
You dont need another user/pass to log into IM+ or Jivetalk. You are correct, neither of these arent free(maybe the iphone version is...) (webmessenger on BBerry is free though)
There are free versions of AIM, Gtalk, MSN, and Yahoo available on the blackberry OS. All official clients.
Android will have IM apps, so u dont need to worry about your text charges. Relax people.
From the release notes:
"The com.google.android.xmppService package has been replaced by the com.google.android.gtalkservice package. This is driven by the fact that the GTalk API is not XMPP compliant, and will be less so going forward. The reason is that XMPP is too verbose and inefficient for mobile network connection, and the GTalk API will be moving to a binary encoding for the protocol between the client and the server. There will also be mobile specific protocols added. For M5, however, XMPP is still used in general, but not 100% compliant."
Opensource yet?
Wasn't it always?
not yet, after the phones start coming out...
No. Some parts have been but there's a truckload which isn't.
The SDK is remaining closed until the phones' launch for two reasons. First, nobody wants their future platform's reputation squashed by bugs that didn't get caught making it out in a premature release by some other company. Secondly, Google understandably wants to get Android out there before derivatives start cropping up.
More importantly, once it's open source it's way harder to change the APIs. You don't want to freeze the APIs until the last possible moment.
Released at 13:37. Nice
this is getting tight. If Android lives up to half the hype and all from user abuse...We have a decent OS. And whatever phone it get smacked onto is second. I can hear apple losing customer base now.
What you hear is EVERYONE non-Android losing customer base.
I'll sell my iPhone in a second if this turns out to half of what it *could* be. This has the possibility of making ALL other mobile software obsolete...Not that the mobile OS bar has been set very high, thanks to the "lock it all down and
delete anything useful" attitudes of many major carriers and even the
hardware manufacturers in Apple's case.
Between the beautiful but locked and tightly-controlled iPhone OS and the utter crap that is Symbian and Win Mobile, Android looks like the way out.
I Want that phone (& OS), I know this is open source(so dont pounce and say it will be an every phone), but where can i get that.
got WVGA support?
I hope they have a easy to use zoom feature or something similar on their browser. It frames the page well but it is not very readable.
also need this to work with vzw
ROFL.... the wallpaper is from wikipedia :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(astronomy)
Well... technically, it belongs to the US Air Force, but I'm sure google didn't go that far :)
I have that background image on my comp.
Ummm whats the keyboard look like?
This new GUI is hideous. I'm sorry. It's a huge downgrade from before, in my opinion.
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