Published by Head Robot on 29th November 2007
Mike Butcher wrote at TechCrunc.com.
Dave Burke, an engineering manager within Google’s mobile team, stood up today at the Future of Mobile conference in London to talk about Android and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the new open mobile platform initiative from Google. This is the the first conference presentation in Europe on the subject since Google’s announcement on November 5th, and was live blogged by TechCrunch UK.
But if you were expecting much new information on all this you would probably have been disappointed. Burke introduce the OHA, outlined how it has 30+ industry leaders on board and how there is no gPhone, just a phone built by partners using the Android platform - this we already know. There was a run-down of what the platform will be capable of and a reminder that the SDK is a only a few days old and that we will probably not see handsets until the second half of next year when the full open source platform will be released.
He also did a fairly impressive demonstration of coding an application (in this case a mobile browser) inside 8mins (or 7mins 58 seconds to be exact - he timed it on stage).
Read the rest of, Google Pitches Android to European Developers.
Technorati Tags: Google, Android, Europe, SDK, Developers
Published by Head Robot on 20th November 2007
Hi,
Just a reminder since our original message has been buried by the thousands of posts: If you are in the Seattle, WA area, I am forming a Seattle Android User Group to meet and discuss the Android platform, share ideas, help each other, etc. If you are interested, feel free to email me or join our google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-android
Even if you’re not extremely close and can’t make every meeting, if
you are in the state and maybe think in the future you may be able to
and just want to watch our progress, post on group, etc. feel free to
join.
The group is being made so we can help each other and be excited
together about this new platform.
Mitchell Hashimoto
Technorati Tags: Android, User Group, Developers, Application Developers, Seattle, Washington
Published by Head Robot on 16th November 2007
Marc Hedlund writes,
It’s interesting to note that Google and the Open Handset Alliance are starting out by shipping the platform first, and shipping phones with that platform on it a year later. Andy Rubin mentioned that an SDK will be available in one week (Apple won’t have an SDK until February), and that it will be shipped with the Apache v2 license. Starting with developers — what a great way to compete with Apple. Someone asked if a manufacturer could create a “completely locked-down Android device,” and Andy Rubin responded, sure, the Apache license lets you do whatever you want, but Eric Schmidt chimed in, why would you bother? The point is having access to the applications. As he said later, “This is fundamentally a developer platform announcement.”
Read more about What does Google’s Open Handset Alliance announcement tell us about iPhone third-party apps? at O’Reilly Radar.
Technorati Tags: iPhone, OHA, Google, Android, SDK, Developers
