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Patrick Brady dissects Android

Patrick Brady of Google's partner group provided a detailed technical tour of the internals of the Android platform during his recent talk at Google I/O 2008 titled "Anatomy and Physiology of an Android". Topics included Linux kernel enhancements, the Bionic library (Google's slimmed down version of libc), Android functional and...

Tags: Google Inc., Library, Hardware, Patrick Brady, Android, Bionic, Surfaces, Audio Flinger, Dalvik, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-04

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50 questions asked and answered on Android

At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Application, Google Android, Phone, Device, Platform, OEM, App, Question, Q., A., XMPP, A. Goal, A. Qemu, Thing Cert, Apk, UMA, A. Compatability, A. Distribution, Android Device, Linux, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Jason Chen answers questions about Android

At the recent Google I/O 2008 conference, Jason Chen from the Android team presented a 90 minute introduction to Google's new software platform for mobile devices. Since I've written about Android basics before I'll just cover some of the points that were new or previously unclear. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Jason Chen, Android, Q., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-02

52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O

On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-04-09

How Android works: The big picture

[This article is part of a continuing series on Android, Google's new mobile phone platform. It is excerpted from an upcoming book. --Ed] Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux Kernel, OpenGL, and the SQL database. Others may be completely foreign, such as...

Tags: Google Inc., Layer, Android, Programming Languages, Linux, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Getting started with Android

Getting started with AndroidWicked coOL Ed!ntRE: Getting started with Androidfound some step by step tutorial at http://www.mymobisoft.comRE: Getting started with AndroidIf you want the skinny on Android I suggest you subscribe to Dims' blog and take a look at the previous entries: http://davanum.wordpress.com/ He's the man who's had the first...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Google obviously, RIM BlackBerry, cell phone, phone, Getting Started

Discussion threads 2007-12-16

Google's Open Handset Alliance releases Android SDK

The Open Handset Alliance, a group that includes Google, Motorola, Sprint, T-Mobile and others, on Monday released the Android software development kit SDK. The alliance notes that the Android SDK is an "early look" designed to allow developers to provide feedback about the platform see statement. And...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Handset, SDK, Mobile Suite, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-12