December 31st, 2007Getting Started with Android
This article by John Lombardo A developer’s perspective on Google’s Android is a good introduction to Googles open Android platform for future mobile devices. Android sounds like an interesting platform:
“Unlike many embedded operating environments, Android applications are all equal — that is, the applications that come with the phone are no different than those that any developer writes. In fact, using the IntentFilter API, any application can handle any event that the user or system can generate. This sounds a bit scary at first, but Android has a well thought-out security model based on Unix file system permissions that assure applications have only those abilities that cell phone owner gave them at install time.”
While you can’t get an Android phone yet, there is still lots to play with Google’s SDK kit and the phone emulator which runs on your pc.
Whether you can make a business out of building Android apps or as a consumer whether you’ll get a chance to use them, depends on how good and how well distributed the devices are once they finally reach the market. With the clout of Google behind the platform, Android could be good.
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