Google has released Android SDK under Open Handset Alliance today. The SDK has got emulators and complete environment for development for the Android phones.
Android is the open source system that shall run a variety of phones from next year. Google and a lot of other key players in mobile industry have come forward to develop, manufacture and market a completely free opensource mobile platform (and mobiles). See Open Handset Alliance website. You can start application development for Android (a screenshot<http://code.google.com/android/images/hello_world_5.png>) in your own very sweet language Java. Google has spent a lot of time writing Android in Java. Android has got all libraries like GSM, Bluetooth, Messaging, and anything you can imagine for your phone. More, there's a $10 million challenge from Google (starting January) to develop an application for Android. They'll pay you $25000 even before you start the project. A Tutorial writing hello, android.<http://code.google.com/android/intro/hello-android.html> A first hand look at building an Android application - A Youtube Video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ObTqIiYfE> The video shows you how to create a contacts menu and a dialer with roughly 20 lines of code! What is Android? <http://code.google.com/android/what-is-android.html> Android Homepage <http://code.google.com/android/index.html> Download the Google SDK <http://code.google.com/android/download.html> The Open Handset Alliance <http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/> The $10 Million Challenge from Google<http://code.google.com/android/adc.html> IRC: #android on irc.freenode.net - Kazim Zaidi Blog: http://tuxplayground.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
