[Klug-general] The Android Developer Challenge will award $10 million to developers who build great apps for Android

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 12:34:18 GMT 2007


Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 11:37 +0000, Stephen Ryan wrote:
>> Hi, thought this link might be of interest to KLUG members. For developers
>> who want to get their hands dirty with building google apps on mobile etc..
>>
>> http://code.google.com/android/
>>
>> Also appears to run on Zaurus on Linux
>> http://euedge.com/blog/2007/12/06/google-android-runs-on-sharp-zaurus-sl-c76
>> 0/
>>
> 
> Android isn't an SDK its a platform, you don't use it to build apps for
> phones, its used to power the phones and provide an SDK for software
> running on the platform.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6Ju0xhUW8
> 
> K,
> 

I think Motorola is going to be using it at some point in the future; 
does anyone know when though? How viable (e.g. close) is it in a 
timescale to be deployable? I want it to annihilate Apple's iPhone 
because it's rubbish.

G



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