Directory —
Technology —
Blog Details for "The Android Log"
The Android LogThe Android LogThe Android Log is a weblog featuring stories, links and articles related to the Android, the open source mobile phone platform based on the Linux operating system and developed by the Open Handset Alliance.
Articles:
1, 2
Articles
YouTube - Androidology - Part 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview
2007-11-17 16:21:00 Part 1 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike gives an overview of the system architecture. Technorati Tags: YouTube, Video, Android, Architecture , SDK More About: Youtube , Part , Overview
Linux Devices - So, what Is Android?
2007-11-17 07:10:00 John Lombardo gives a thorough overview of Google’s Android SDK at Linux Devices , Android is a complete software stack for mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs and high end MP3 players. The software stack is split into four layers: The application layer The application framework The libraries and runtime The kernel Cell phone users obviously work with applications in the ... More About: Dalvik
Google Engineering Manager Demo?s Android
2007-11-16 22:03:00 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. Technorati Tags: Dave Burke, London, Future of Mobile, London, ... More About: Engineering , Manager , Demo
Register Opinion - Android: Developer Dream or Google Cash Machine?
2007-11-16 21:49:00 Phil Manchester at The Register offers his view of Android, Google ’s Android agenda is far from clear, but it seems money is a driving factor, rather than a genuine desire to liberate developers and phone users from the nasty old telcos with an open platform. After all, Android’s backers include some of those very carriers that ... More About: Stocks , Apache , Machine , Developer
Steven Frank - Android, With More Optimism
2007-11-16 21:42:00 Steven Frank , cofounder of Panic, Inc has updated his blog with reflections on the Android SDK and the market effect it could have: Having digested the landslide of comments on my previous Android post, I think some of you called it: While Android is not a direct threat to the iPhone, it is very much a ... More About: Google , Apple , Operating Systems , Palm
Video - Computerworld Magazine Explains Android
2007-11-16 20:31:00 From Computer World: Google’s open platform could benefit the wireless industry, but the 3G issue may slow adoption. Also, while more than 30 industry heavyweights are partnering with Google, Apple will not be participating. Technorati Tags: Google Android , YouTube, Video , Computerworld , SDK More About: Magazine , Google Android
Kyoto Microcomputer Creates Android SDK Debugger In Less Than 1 Week
2007-11-16 19:34:00 The brisk pace of world-wide Android innovation continues, as this article from Japan at http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp shows: Kyoto Microcomputer Co Ltd conducted an unscheduled demonstration of the debugging environment for Google Android, which was just released by Google Inc, at Embedded Technology 2007, an embedded system-related exhibition. In the demonstration, Kyoto Microcomputer actually debugged the kernel and device ... More About: Week , Croc
Bungee Connect Developer Network Podcast Talks Android
2007-11-16 18:58:00 Bungee Connect Developer Network Podcast Talks Android Jon Aizen joins Alex and Ted to explain how Dapper.net provides a no-fee tool for making almost any structured web site date accessible via a REST API. In a past life, Jon was involved in creating The Internet Archive. Jon also helps the Bungee Line introduce romantic intrigue into ... More About: Google , Bungee
Is Android Really PC 2.0?
2007-11-16 18:42:00 Living in Small Spaces Blog questions if Android is the start of a larger shift in personal computer history: For the past couple months my mind has been occupied with digesting the news of what is now called Andriod, the mobile phone platform developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance . Everyone was expecting a ?gPhone?, ... More About: Technology , Shift
MTV Exec Talks Advertising on Google?s Android Platform
2007-11-16 18:32:00 snl.com talked to MTV exec Greg Clayman about advertising and Google ’s Android platform: Clearly it is going to take a while, but you talked about the need for open networks. Why is this necessary? How would it reshape the industry? That’s exactly right. The promise of this is that, right now, when you develop an application for ... More About: Wireless , Advertising , Platform
Engadget?s Visual Tour of the Android OS
2007-11-16 18:23:00 View the Android Photo Gallery at Engadget.com Technorati Tags: Android, Gallery, Photo, Google, Mobile, Wireless More About: Visual , Tour
Is Android A Threat to Free Software?
2007-11-16 18:17:00 Wired.com writer Paul Adams writes this week, Android, Google’s new mobile software platform based on the Linux kernel, is scheduled to be released in early 2008 under an open-source license. But hope for the new platform is mingled with worries that it won’t be as free and open as the initial publicity surrounding the release strenuously ... More About: Software , Free , Free Software , Wired , Thread
Google engineer explains Android choices
2007-11-15 22:50:00 Computerworld’s Mobile and Wireless site writes, Android will be different from the leading European smart phone operating system, Symbian, because it is open source, said Dave Burke, an engineering manager in Google Inc.’s mobile team. He also defended the search company’s decision to use its own flavor of Java and to not support the popular C++ ... More About: Engineer , Choices
InfoWorld - Google?s Android: Looking Good ? But What?s The Cost?
2007-11-15 22:44:00 Serdar Yegulalp from Information World writes today, In my earlier blog post about Google ’s Android , I wondered if one of the fruits of that labor would be a phone user interface that didn’t leave those of us not buying a phone that starts with the lower-case letter “i” out in the cold. Then I saw the ... More About: Cost , Good
New Android SDK Resource Sites Appearing Daily
2007-11-15 20:37:00 Today we found out about two new wiki’s dedicated to the Android SDK: The Android Wiki - http://wiki.ohadev.com Android Internals Wiki - http://www.android-internals.org Technorati Tags: Android, SDK, Google, gPhone, Wiki, Development More About: Daily , Sites , Resource
Graphical Native C Programs on Android
2007-11-15 01:15:00 Qtopia, Maemo or Open Moko run on Android ? Update: Keep in mind that this is totally against the reason for Android’s existence as a cross-vendor development environment. gaz was one of many to respond to the thread on writing C/C++ Android Apps… “You know guys that doing this will prevent your application in being an Android application, yes? If you ... More About: Programs , Graphical
Slashdotter?s weigh in on Android
2007-11-15 01:05:00 On Monday, Slashdot posted a notice about the release of the Android SDK “The android SDK has been released to the wild. As expected it features the Linux Kernel, low level libraries such as FreeType, OpenGL, SQL Lite, WebKit (as a web browser), a custom Java Bytecode interpreter that is highly specialized for the CPU. A ... More About: Weigh
Inside the Android SDK
2007-11-15 00:57:00 Brian DeLacey provides a detailed introduction to the Android SDK at ONLamp.com Ever since Clay Christensen’s award winning 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, the phrases “disruptive technology” and “disruptive innovation” have bounced around business circles like turbocharged pinballs at an arcade. Disruptive technology and disruptive innovation are typically good news for consumers who benefit from improvements ... More About: Software , Inside
cNet.com - Sun?s worried that Google Android could fracture Java
2007-11-15 00:46:00 Stephen Shankland, a blogger for cNet News.com writes, Painful flashbacks are beginning to torment those of us who lived through the Java wars between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft that began 10 years ago. Earlier this week, Google released programming tools for its Android mobile-phone software project that shun the existing Java standard-setting process in favor of a ... More About: Google Android , Worried
Inside The GPhone: What To Expect From Google?s Android Alliance
2007-11-15 00:40:00 Alexander Wolfe at Information Week writes; If you think the Google Phone is all talk, you’re wrong: Here are eight technologies–GPS, multimedia, mobile Web browsing, gaming graphics, and more–which Open Handset Alliance members will bring to the upcoming mobile handset. What exactly will the GPhone — that vaporous handset that’s the subject of furious speculation — actually ... More About: Technology , Inside , Expect
Ascender creates Android Fonts for OHA Project
2007-11-14 22:05:00 Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products and innovative applications for mobile devices, today announced that it designed and engineered a new set of system User Interface (UI) fonts named ?Droid? for the Android platform built by the Open Handset Alliance. The Android platform is a complete mobile phone software stack that will ... More About: Project , Fonts , Ascend
Dex File Format
2007-11-14 22:02:00 Very important information for Android Developer ’s: If you’ve been paying attention to the tech news lately you might have heard about a little something called Android from Google. Android is a new mobile phone platform based on Linux and Java, but unlike other Java platforms Android uses a non-standard JVM called Dalvik. While Google has promised ... More About: File , Format
IT Management - Why Android is Important to IT Managers
2007-11-14 21:59:00 The IT Managment Blog writes about 5 ways Android is Important to IT Managers : Although it?s something we don?t hear too much about, Android is important in the world of IT, and of particular importance to IT Managers. The open source mobile platform that was acquired by Google two years ago certainly has its place, and ... More About: Management , Development , Ager
Android Introduction and First Impressions
2007-11-14 21:42:00 Andy Atkinson writes about Android on his blog, Pain In the Tech: Android is a recently-announced, open source mobile-phone operating system and development platform from Google. Apple recently announced an SDK to allow developers to produce native applications for iPhone, though Google?s announcement is quite different from Apple?s where the hardware and software stack are fixed. ... More About: Software , Programming , First Impressions , Opinion , Introduction
Om: Google Launches Mobile Phone Platform, Android: What it Means, What Exp
2007-11-14 20:00:00 Om Malik writes on his Blog, GigaOm: Updated post press conference, read My Take #2: Google (GOOG) has just announced its much talked about Google mobile phone platform, Android, and has announced a large list of partners who are working with the company. The company said it?s worked with T-Mobile , HTC, Qualcomm (QCOM), Motorola (MOT) and ... More About: Technology , Phone , Mobile Phone
Ubuntu 7.10 - Android HOWTO
2007-11-14 07:13:00 Luka posted his HOWTO for Ubuntu 7.10 to the Android Development Group I finally found a way to run my apps. It is pretty simple, here is an TODO list to be sure Android will work on your Ubuntu 7.10. Follow all the thing wrote at http://code.google.com/android/intro/inst alling.html#installingsdk as “Installing the SDK” and “Installing the Eclipse Plugin (ADT)” Make ... More About: Howto
We seem to live in the exciting time - Android Freeware Directory
2007-11-14 06:17:00 In a strangely written announcement, sfdteam@googlemail.com (profile) wrote to the Official Android Development Group about living in the exciting time.. Hello everybody! We seem to live in the exciting time! The Android Platform looks sooo impressive and we love completely the technologies behind it. So, today we are announcing the launch of the Android Freeware Directory , where we ... More About: Time , Live
Developing on Android - Getting Started Guide
2007-11-14 06:08:00 On 12 November, 2007 the Open Handset Alliance released a preview of the Android software development kit which includes development and debugging tools, a set of libraries, a device emulator, documentation, sample projects, tutorials, FAQs, and more. Developers are required to download the Android SDK to an x86-based computer running Windows XP or Vista, Mac ... More About: Contest , Guide , Guid
ZDNet - The flaw in the Google Android Plan?
2007-11-14 05:38:00 Michael Kanellos from CNET News.com writes, Can Google grovel? Probably not well, at least not initially, and that could become a major problem in its plans to create a mobile-phone platform that will compete with offerings from Microsoft, RIM and Apple. Technically, a subsidiary called Android will oversee the project, but it’s an appendage of the big ... More About: Editorial , Partners , Plan , Zdnet
Engadget - Symbian, Nokia, Microsoft and Apple downplay Android
More articles from this author:2007-11-14 05:25:00 Engadget writes, Palm’s not the only company that isn’t afraid to speak out on the Open Handset Alliance. Nokia , Microsoft and Symbian made it most clear today that they don’t perceive danger from the new initiative and corresponding Android OS, with Nokia stating it quite bluntly: “We don’t see this as a threat.” Microsoft was a ... More About: Phone , Apple 1, 2 |
|
