Anroid has been released:
Following last week’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance, today we’re happy to offer an early look at the Android SDK. We’re eager to get feedback from lots of developers in our discussion group. We’re also providing developer documentation and this blog to help you get up and going.
It’s looking pretty good:
Here is a detailed explanation about the platform:
- Androidology – Part 1 of 3 – Architecture Overview
- Androidology – Part 2 of 3 – Application Lifecycle
- Androidology – Part 3 of 3 – APIs
It looks like it has a lot of potential. They have just launched and they already have a very extensible platform, way beyond what we have in Maemo, and even in GNOME or any Linux DE. I give it a month before we have unbelievably-crazy, original and useful killer-applications.
I like to develop in Linux, with vim, in C or in Ruby, so I’m not so excited about their Eclipse based SDK, but I guess it makes it easier for a lot of people. I like Java, but I like to write stuff without any fancy IDE. Anyhow $25,000 looks like a pretty good motivation to try installing it 
Two thumbs up.
More videos here.
You don’t have to use the Eclipse IDE. Check http://code.google.com/android/intro/hello-android.html , bottom of the page. It has a small section about how to develop without IDE.
Thanks MDK. I thought that was the case–I wouldn’t expect less from Google
– but didn’t see that anywhere.
Man, in planet maemo the quoting is broken and it seemed like you were an Android developer speaking about “We are happy to announce…”. I was like “wtf? He’s at Google now?”.
@Xan: Jajaja! Yeah, I noticed that too late. I’m not that fast
hey bro, father heard it on the radio and said to me. this is perfect for felipe it’s what he does, linux and cellphones.
25,000 indeed seems like a good motivation to make a great software.
i had this idea a few years ago for google desktop. maybe you can use it
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop_past-discussions/browse_thread/thread/cb38125a512e8979/c8834e13a6f23b3e?lnk=st&q=google+bubble+desktop#c8834e13a6f23b3e