Looking at Google Android, Developer Kit & Competition

November 12, 2007

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Looking at Google Android Developer Kit Competition

Google created a video showcasing

This thing has been coined "Gphone" in many of media's (often misleading) reports on the product, though Google's Steve Horowitz says it's not a Gphone, but allows to create "thousands of Gphones."

The presented demo looks quite good, but Android's capabilities depend on the hardware; in a relative large-screen, high-power phone environment it's coming close to the iPhone, while on lower-end hardware it might be more comparable to the Symbian mobile OS. But even with Android, it might well be that usability-wise, nothing will play in the league of the iPhone for quite some time to come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg

Developer Kit Released

"The dev environment (Eclipse) even has a nice emulator, so you can see how it's going to work on an Android phone," Reto Meier comments in the forum.

A $10 Million Android Competition

Also, Google announced a

You want to join the competiton? Here's a bit of Java source code Google presents as "Hello World" introductory sample (I removed the comments) – if this looks like it might be something for you, I suppose $275,000 is *cough* not shabby (I usually prefer creating web apps, as they can – theoretically – work across devices, even on cellphones... but this API may give you the power to access the full phone and all its capabilities):

package com.google.android.samples.app;<br />import com.google.android.samples.R;<br />import android.app.Activity;<br />import android.os.Bundle;<br /><br />public class HelloWorld extends Activity {<br /><br /> @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {<br /> super.onCreate(icicle);<br /> setContentView(R.layout.hello_world);<br /> }<br />}

The actual contents of the Hello World aren't in that source bit, but contained in XML files probably similar to this other XML. There's also a video demo for creating your first Android application.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ObTqIiYfE

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