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Original Post: Google has released the Android Software Development Kit 1.0.
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Google has released the Android Software Development Kit 1.0. This is an open source Java environment for writing programs that run on the Android platform mobile phones such as the recently announced T-Mobile G-1. Unlike IPhone apps, you don't need Google's or T-Mobile's or anyone else's permission to install software, and you can run apps in the background. Android is a far more powerful development platform than the IPhone, and I'm very psyched about it. The initial hardware isn't quite as well-designed as the IPhone, but one of the advantages of Android is that there'll be more than one manufacturer so we'll have a much wider choice of phones. More seriously the user interaction model isn't as clean as the IPhone's. Hopefully that will improve with time. More...