http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/ Engadget Comments for Google's Android OS early look SDK now available http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/try listing to all the vids at once
it sounds very funny
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http://www.cmyos.com - free online operating system]]>Nov 13th 2007 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9384910015
Invite your friends
The scope is to link people to really sustain the Google bidding. After 1000 the first real idea will be posted.
After 10.000 the second idea and further instruction.
Go COOLinked]]>Nov 17th 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 13th 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Meh..]]>Nov 12th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Everything we have seen so far is already availble on Windows Mobile phones since WinMo5.
Microsoft is probably laughing right about now.
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http://www.androidboards.com]]>Nov 12th 2007 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 15th 2007 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
Yes, yes it will :]]]>Nov 12th 2007 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
HA!!
couldn't resist
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This could be a HUGE impact on apple sales.

I'm an iPhone user and Im looking forward to this. ATT was in right?]]>Nov 12th 2007 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
"In the future people will not copy and paste, they will retype everything on a small software keyboard."]]>Nov 12th 2007 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
nah . . . 1.2!

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I don't think as many people will be developing for the iPhone...]]>Nov 12th 2007 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 13th 2007 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
As for Android, hopefully having not one but two competing platforms (Android, iPhone) will finally make MS "fix" Windows Mobile and make it customer-centric, not Windows-centric (which sounds like apples and oranges, but really isn't!).

Sorry - I don't consider Palm a viable fourth option given that it hasn't changed in like 8 years :(]]>Nov 12th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
In appearance, it seems to be a cross between Windows Mobile, a generic Cell phone OS and (primarily) Mac OSX for the iPhone.

This isn't a bad thing but I was expecting a little bit more out of the platform. Some of the features that I liked after seeing that video were the Open GL capabilities (demonstrated by the globe) as well as (some) of the interface.

I think I remember seeing an Opera icon on the bottom of the screen but I may be wrong - in any case, I was hoping that this OS would deliver better browsing capabilities than it's competition - something that still appears lacking even in this preview. I'm not sure whether he was really using 3G but did you notice how slow the pictures on that Berkeley page loaded up?. Jeez. I've had GPRS work faster.

I'd like Google to leak out a few more videos of what this platform has to offer - given the wealth of free services that they offer online, I was hoping that they would have a few "mobile" versions of these available that wouldn't require you to use the browser to access them. They seem to have integrated Google Maps in quite well which is good.

From a graphical perspective - I've seen 5 year old PDA's deliver Quake and Tomb Raider rendering at just as impressive speed and quality so Android is going to need to step up the game a little bit - show me something I haven't already seen!.

The one thing that excited me after seeing that video is something I think I heard. Did he say you could develop on it using Delphi?. I haven't known many mobile operating systems to ever offer this but even if it's a small thing, it certainly is interesting.]]>Nov 12th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
How to do this? Content types done right, integrated search, standard interfaces for every facet of interaction, consistent and integrated program registration, and good inter-process communication.
All of those in one box, even with the most primitive of user interfaces, would blow the competition out of the water.

That thought smells a bit of Newton, and that thing was by no means a miracle interface for display; it was a miracle interface for knowing what it's doing.

I haven't looked much at the technical details, but some of the examples would suggest that Android has this type of functionality...

A shame about the Java thing, mind. As John Carmack observed quite wisely, it's a great little language: For databases.]]>Nov 12th 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
And the sdk ONLY support eclipse :-( Damn, eclipse is only good for Java but a burden for other languages, specially c++.
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This OS may not end up being that 'shiny' for the end-consumer, but it has some real appeal for the industry.]]>Nov 12th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
After looking at the SDK and other literature briefly, one of the most unique and interesting aspects of android is this:

"Android does not differentiate between the phone's basic and third-party applications -- even the dialer or home screen can be replaced."

This is sssuuuupppppeeeerrrrr unique among phone OS. This level of access and application replacement is what is necessary to truly customize or reskin a phone. I dont know of any other OS that offers this (although I am not an expert). Very interesting.]]>Nov 12th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/Nov 12th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/googles-android-os-early-look-sdk-now-available/
One of the biggest gripes I can see so far is the reliance on menu. It's one thing that the iPhone manages to get around for the most part (and simply doesn't provide that functionality when it can't...)

The really big win the iPhone still has is that multi-touch is a really big gain. It allows Apple to treat the iPhone as a single surface you can interact with directly. You can used to just flipping through things, sliding things, zooming in, etc. without having to take your eyes away from the screen, or figure out what button to press.

It's certainly to say iPhone is not perfect. Still can't copy and paste with it. But Cocoa is a really great stack to work with. I'm very curious as to how Andriod compares. Is there an emulator for development use? Also, how hard will it be to develop common apps against different HW?]]>Nov 12th 2007 12:04PM