http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2007/11/13/google-andriod en-us 40 the intriguing Mr Crichton-Seager's blog <p><img align="right" src="/files/android_sml.jpg"/>Wahey! This is the pot of gold at the end of the Google-phone rumour-rainbow. The Open Handset Alliance have released the first <acronym title="Application Programming Interface">API</acronym> and <acronym title="Software Development Kit">SDK</acronym> for the Andriod platform.<br/><br/> Android is an Open Source mobile phone platform based on a Linux kernel and written under an Apache 2.0 licence. The OHA is led by Google and includes members such as <a href="http://www.htc.com/">HTC</a>, <a href="http://www.chinamobileltd.com/">China Mobile</a> and other <a href="http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html">huge players</a> in the mobile market.<br/><br/> First impressions are good. The SDK includes an emulated handset running the operating system and tools for creating your own Java based applications that take advantage of the proposed hardware.</p> <p>The emulation looks good, including basic phone software but strangely no messaging support yet (<acronym title="Short Messaging Service (Text Messaging)">SMS</acronym>/<acronym title="Multimedia Messaging Service (Picture Messaging)">MMS</acronym>/e-mail). It does however have a Google Maps application and some developer demos and tools.</p> <p>Overall the <acronym title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</acronym> has the simplicity of design that Google tend toward, though not quite so much as Apple does with the iPhone. We must however remember that this is a first developer preview release. It's unusually slick for a version zero Open Source project, but then I'm sure Google has been pumping cash in to get this party started.</p> <p>Anyway, this could be the next big thing, so I'm off to try creating an application for it...</p> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:48:00 +0000 urn:uuid:af31c2fb-7bc8-4732-a112-fe48ff15ce25 Kat Crichton http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2007/11/13/google-andriod Work Linux google phone iphone mobile open http://blog.klaws.org/articles/trackback/68