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Android Demo

2007-11-11T16:42:04.000-08:00

	Android Demo Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.	From: androiddevelopers Views: 2749111 2331 ratings
	Time: 06:24	More in Science & Technology

A first hand look at building an Android application

2007-11-11T19:44:46.000-08:00

	A first hand look at building an Android application Dan Morrill builds a simple application on the Android platform.	From: Google Views: 5917 14 ratings
	Time: 07:57	More in Science & Technology

Android: Building a Mobile Platform to Change the Industry

2008-05-13T15:55:14.000-07:00

	Android: Building a Mobile Platform to Change the Industry November 28, 2007 lecture by Richard Miner for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). This talk provides technical and commercial background on Android, a new mobile platform that Google and a large set of partners (known as the open handset alliance) have recently announced. EE 380 \| Computer Systems Colloquium: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory: http://csl.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Professional Development: http://scpd.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniversity/	From: stanforduniversity Views: 1015 6 ratings
	Time: 01:17:11	More in Education

Skypop on Android

2007-11-11T16:48:25.000-08:00

	Skypop on Android Bruce Leak and Timo Bruck from SkyPop demo a couple of their new applications for Android.	From: androiddevelopers Views: 366704 100 ratings
	Time: 01:56	More in Science & Technology

Androidology - Part 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview

2007-11-11T18:58:12.000-08:00

	Androidology - Part 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview Part 1 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike gives an overview of the system architecture.	From: Google Views: 172439 169 ratings
	Time: 12:41	More in Science & Technology

The Apple iPhone Has a Lot of Restrictions vs Google Android

2008-03-13T13:22:48.000-07:00

	The Apple iPhone Has a Lot of Restrictions vs Google Android http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2008/03/android_is_not_just_an_os_its_a_whole_phone_plateform.php It's only Day 2 of eComm and I'm already exhausted! As Dryburgh promised, this is a really fast paced event: 15-mns sessions, followed by 5-mns lightning talks and a few 30-mns keynotes... and this all day long! This afternoon will be the first one hour panel on mobile mashups. But the lack of proper Wi-Fi connectivity is really annoying. Anyway, this morning starts with Google's manager of Wireless, Rich Miner (pictured) sharing his views of the mobile telecom space and about his baby... Android. Inspite of his telco pedigree - he was working in the past at France Telecom's Orange Labs -, Miner had little sympathy for carriers who "failed" to bring the Internet to mobile devices and "came up with web browser standards who were very limiting". "They came up with arcane limited versions of HTML. So our whole world is moving to XHTML and more robust versions of browsers, these guys focused on limited sets. Turns out the iPhone proves what you can do on a mobile device and the Internet... What you're going to see is Webkit like full HTML and XML 2.0wy type web browsers appearing in phones. They are now in all the series 60 mobile phones that are shipping, the iPhone, Android." With Android you can build any type of phones: from low-end phones to smartphones During Q&A, Miner admitted that the first phones will probably be focused on very powerful internet connected mobile devices but it doesn't have to stay that way. "This is a completely open mobile stack. If you're a hardware OEM and you're trying to reduce the cost it takes to manufacturing mobile phones, you have one powerful operating system that can scale your range from low-end feature phones, all the way up to the most powerful smartphones, simply by striping elements out or reducing the capabilities" Android is not an open development effort Inspite being a collaborative effort between Google, software developers, handset OEMs and carriers that helped Google create the stack and make decisions about what should be in the platform or not, Minor insisted that Android was not an "open" development effort, like for example OpenMoko is. "Google had reference designs. We were effectively the architect. Because we're not building this as an open community development effort. We're building this as a well engineered design system with strong design leadership, with clear knowledge of what pieces we needed... to build that system". However, Miner confirmed that the whole Android stack will be open source. At which point the community will have more say in future functionalities. Something similar to Apple's management of the Webkit development process, where Google, Nokia, individuals and others contribute to the open source browser development. Miner also confirmed that the first Android handsets will be launched in the second half of 2008. In response of a question as to whether developers should build apps for the iPhone or Android, he said that it depends on the app developers want to build. "There are just certain apps you can't build on an iPhone. They don't let you do multi-process things, they don't let you run app in the background after you switch from one app to another. You can't interpret things. You can't have interpreted languages in your apps on an iPhone. There's a lot of restrictions. So you should first look and see, does the iPhone allow me to do what I want to do. Ultimately my belief is that any start-up company or company that is trying to build a popular app will see that app on both platforms. They are both very contemporary programming environments. As long as somebody cleans the architecture system and uses contemporary programming techniques, it shouldn't be too hard to maintain multiple versions of successful apps across the iPhone and Android". http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2008/03/android_is_not_just_an_os_its_a_whole_phone_plateform.php	From: uberpulse Views: 12298 14 ratings
	Time: 07:49	More in Science & Technology

Google Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta Released (Mobile OS) In-Depth Video Tour, A Great OS

2008-08-18T23:20:27.000-07:00

	Google Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta Released (Mobile OS) In-Depth Video Tour, A Great OS An In-Depth Video Tour of Google Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, an Great Mobile OS Download it: http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html Release Notes: http://code.google.com/android/RELEASENOTES.html Google released the Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, boasting of a pile of API updates and a visual refresh that moves it one solid step closer to actually, you know, showing up on a phone. A long changelog and a few screenshots are great, but we've fired up the SDK's emulator for a guided tour of Android's salient features. 0:02: Main menu is contained in a drawer that slides from the bottom of the screen 0:08: Multiple home screens can be flipped with touch gestures, a la the iPhone 0:20: Icons can be dragged from the main menu to build customized home screens. Dragging to the menu drawer trashes the home screen shortcut 0:38: Dialer screen, followed by the call behavior. Calls can continue in the background, and all functions that don't require data transfer can work concurrently (This is currently a software regulation, as 3g networks should theoretically allow for simultaneous voice and data usage). 0:53: Ongoing calls and other notifications can be accessed by dragging the taskbar down. 1:20: Browser displays Gizmodo. Rendering is quite good, page navigation is a fairly intuitive rehash of current touch-control schemes. It's not terrible good at guessing column widths during double-tap zooming, but seems very usable. Preview magnification feature is useful for smaller screens or text-heavy pages. 2:22: "Tabbed" browsing feature lays out a grid of pages, with previews 2:45: Google Maps app. As you can see, this is among the more polished apps, and will feel familiar to anyone who has used Google Maps on the desktop or mobile devices. 3:30: Google Maps Street View. 4:00: Home screen include widgets (Google Search, a clock and a picture frame are the only ones for now) that can be dragged around the home screen(s). 4:23: The music apps relies on a panel of icons (a recurring theme in Android) 4:30: Message composition is unremarkable, but there is no sign of an on-screen keyboard at the moment. This could be a customization catered the the first round of Android phones, at least one of which will have a slide-out keyboard. 5:12: The camera naturally doesn't work in the emulator, but there are currently very few options in its menus. 5:50: Wallpaper switching. This is one of the few areas where Android excels aesthetically. Wallpaper scrolls as home screens are switched, but at a slower rate that the icons. This creates a convincing illusion of depth. 6:11: The home screen can also be modified via the system menu, where you can choose to add applications, widgets and shortcuts, as well as change the wallpaper. It's hard to pass judgement on Android in the condition it's in. What's there is impressive, but there are so many glaring omissions, at least from a consumer standpoint. There is a fantastic system for managing ongoing calls and system messages (via the pull-down taskbar) but no apps to take advantage of it. Email and IM would suit such a configuration beautifully, but neither is included in this release. And seriously, where is the calendar? The organizer? A video app? Youtube support? Sure, these things could be left to the developer community, but Google already has messaging, email, video and calendar services, so it's reasonable to expect that they be included by default in Android. Before a public release, Android should at least posses a feature set comparable to your average candy bar phone, courtesy of Google, so that the eager open-source development community can devote their effort to creating new, innovative apps and modifications for the OS. Objections aside, the progress is promising. In terms of usability, Android is much easier to navigate and customize than virtually all other mobile solutions. With a few more apps, Android will be a clear choice over Windows Mobile, skinned or not. You can download the SDK and play with the emulator yourself, if you want. Just a word of warning, though — explaining to your family or significant other that you're testing an emulated prerelease of an upcoming mobile OS is about as hard as it sounds Source: http://gizmodo.com/5038586/an-in+depth-video-tour-of-android-09-an-almost-great-almost-os	From: NeoPHILiyac Views: 3972 6 ratings
	Time: 07:21	More in Science & Technology

Androidology - Part 2 of 3 - Application Lifecycle

2007-11-11T20:50:31.000-08:00

	Androidology - Part 2 of 3 - Application Lifecycle Part 2 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike explains the application and process lifecycle as a user navigates through different applications.	From: androiddevelopers Views: 82526 88 ratings
	Time: 08:15	More in Science & Technology

Androidology - Part 3 of 3 - APIs

2007-11-11T16:28:30.000-08:00

	Androidology - Part 3 of 3 - APIs Part 3 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike gives an overview of a few of the APIs available on the platform.	From: androiddevelopers Views: 84121 86 ratings
	Time: 07:04	More in Science & Technology

Android Hello World Tutorial

2007-11-17T07:19:41.000-08:00

	Android Hello World Tutorial Tutorial "Hello World" application in Android under Ubuntu including installation eclipse and Android-SDK Sorry for the bad resolution. A better version is under http://rapidshare.com/files/70363351/android_install_helloworld.avi available.	From: quorr Views: 3192 4 ratings
	Time: 05:53	More in Science & Technology

Re: A first hand look at building an Android application

2007-11-21T17:50:06.000-08:00

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ScreenPlay : The big hit against the Iphone

2007-11-13T01:56:28.000-08:00

	ScreenPlay : The big hit against the Iphone This is a new technology will be used in the new symbian OS. ScreenPlay is the new graphics architecture in Symbian OS. Designed to power the richest visual experience available on a mobile phone to date, it gives users big screen effects in their pockets while ensuring long battery life. ScreenPlay is designed for mobile devices with user interfaces which integrate high definition video content, life-like games and animations. It significantly enhances content presentation in versatile, yet simple new ways - by using transparency and overlays, for example. ScreenPlay offers high performance in a scalable fashion - working purely in software on mid-range devices and taking advantage of hardware acceleration when present on high-end devices. These enhancements are delivered without compromising the device's battery power efficiency.	From: suhaibN Views: 6425 7 ratings
	Time: 02:55	More in Science & Technology

Steve Ballmer on Google Android

2007-11-10T01:18:55.000-08:00

	Steve Ballmer on Google Android Microsoft's CEO comments on Google's recently announced mobile development platform, calling Android merely a "press release."	From: InfoWorld Views: 48878 71 ratings
	Time: 03:02	More in News & Politics

Apple V Google: Open Mobile Competition Begins

2008-07-29T15:17:29.000-07:00

	Apple V Google: Open Mobile Competition Begins Thanks to the iPhone, millions of people finally have the Internet in their pocket, and feel it to be so. But there are still big obstacles to unleashing the innovative potential of the mobile web. The industry's hands are tied in the US, because carriers and device makers, for the most part, keep outside developers from changing or adding unauthorized software. Similarly, computer industry players tend toward proprietary walled gardens. Apple is notoriously closed; Microsoft, which has a slowly growing presence in smartphones for business use, has made no secret of its move toward mass-market consumer phones; and BlackBerry is also is trying to move beyond business devices and into the consumer market. Enter Android, Google’s smartphone OS. Android is about as open as you can get, and its partners include Sprint, T-Mobile, Telefonica, LG, Samsung, Motorola, and the major Telecoms in China and Japan. It’s designed to run on almost any hardware and includes a fully open and free UI complete with source code. It costs nothing for carriers to use, harnesses the power of Google's own applications, and throws development out to the whole coding world. Android will no doubt change the nature of the mobile technology. The focus of the industry is shifting from what's inside the phone to the online stuff a handset can access, from mobile music and photo sharing to GPS and location-based services. Now the question is turning to how controlled it should be. Mark Rolston, CEO of leading app developer Frog Design, challenged Google VP of Mobile Rich Miner at AO's Summit @ Stanford to address how, with so many partners and developers, Google would prevent a proliferation of incompatible versions. "In addition to open sourcing the code for Android," Miner responded, "we're going to open source the compliance tests." In other words, Google will let the Android community police compatibility standards. Smart. In an increasingly fragmented mobile space, someone needs to step in, establish and enforce ...	From: AlwaysOnVideos Views: 313 0 ratings
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