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

[George Prowse]

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:34 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>> 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? 
> 
>>From what I've heard its going to be about a year before the first
> android handset becomes available. 
> 
>> I want it to annihilate Apple's iPhone 
>> because it's rubbish.
> 
> LOL, don't be stupid, the iphone is the best bloody product out there,
> it has a software stack that kicks the arse of android (core image, core
> audio, core animation, quartz extreme, quartz compositor, among many
> other apple APIs). The user interface has been 2 1/2 years in
> development and shows how much attention to detail apple have paid, soon
> it'll get 3G, GPS and MMS support and then it'll be mainstream in
> europe. 
> 
> iPhone is good, there is no denying it, I haven't seen any valid
> criticism which isn't already on a time table for redress. The open
> source world can't produce something like this, especially not in the
> time frame allowed. I mean FCS we're still trying to get a single
> direction and combined effort behind open compositing and yet there are
> no HIG guidelines for compositing yet, this is now 2 years old! Apple
> did this 8 years ago!

Pity the phone itself is shit and it comes with a crap camera... But who 
wants that, eh?

 From what I can tell it does the typical Apple bit and that is "doesn't 
work as good as it looks".
> 
> I wouldn't criticise this breakthrough product until you can at least
> write some cool bling in cairo or clutter and realise that the effort is
> far beyond what anyone else can produce right now, even google.
> 
> K,
> 

I can criticise it all I want, my phone is far better than the iPhone, I 
can even plug it into the computer and my box gets a 512mb broadband 
connection through it.