A Warm Welcome for Google's Android
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| Nearly 200 industry movers recently surveyed said they believe Android-based
| mobiles won't make even a small dent during 2008 in the smartphone market,
| which is dominated by the Symbian platform, Windows Mobile, and the
| BlackBerry. But Android's late arrival on the market doesn't seem to be
| weighing heavily on many developers.
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http://www.crm-daily.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11200B0HSHZ4
It has been amazing how many journalists simply didn't understand how it all
works. Interesting notes from the Chumby developer:
24C3
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| I had the fortune this year of being able to attend 24C3, the 24th annual
| Chaos Computer Congress. The conference was a lot of fun–probably the first
| time in a long time (at least since chumby started) that I got to sit down
| and just hack for a couple of days on fun projects…in between going to really
| interesting and stimulating talks, and enjoying Berlin’s nightclub scene.
|
| [...]
|
| Cross-compiling the basic Linux phidgets driver was fairly straightforward; I
| just had to modify the makefile to explicitly use arm-linux-gcc instead of
| the default host compiler. I then copied the libphidget21.so onto the chumby
| root file system–not quite as easy, as it’s a cramfs read only filesystem.
| Since I didn’t have my full chumby development environment on hand, I grabbed
| one of the chumby OTA update distribution filesystems, mounted it as a
| loopback volume, tar copied the contents out, added the library files, and
| then regenerated the cramfs filesystem. It’s a lot of work if you’re not
| comfortable with Linux; an easier way to handle this is to just statically
| link your binaries against libphidget21.a.
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http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=221
"One person in Helsinki can quickly write the core of a sophisticated operating
system."
--John Warden, lead attorney at Microsoft
Related:
Introducing the first Android prototype
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| Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation, an industry group
| dedicated to creating a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, says
| handset makers typically spend $500 million, at a minimum, to launch an
| operating system. Gillis says few handset makers will be willing to commit to
| Android until the full platform, including the critical source code, is
| nailed down tight.
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2008-01-13-android-google_N.htm
Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future
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| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers,
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile
| platform, Android.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html
Google releases Android SDK
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| Google has released an SDK (software development kit) that programmers can
| use to create cell-phone applications for the company’s Android mobile
| platform.
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http://www.macworld.com/article/61005/2007/11/androidsdk.html
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