“Netbooks are designed to be compact in size & easy to connect to the Net wherever you go,” said Jim Wong, president of IT Products Global Operation, Acer in a statement Tuesday. “The Android operating method offers amazingly speedy wireless connection to the Internet; for this reason, Acer has decided to create Android netbooks for added convenience to our customers.”
Acer followed Monday’s announcement with news on Tuesday morning that it will launch Acer Aspire One netbooks based on the Android platform, as well. In a statement, Acer said the netbooks would hit the market in advance of the smartphones & would be obtainable 3Q09.
With the move toward Android, Acer is wisely banking on the value-add that open source applications by third-party developers bring to end-users.
Other announcements
Acer believes that the free, open source mobile platform “will contribute significantly to the worldwide netbook market growth.” Acer will continue to manufacture systems built on Microsoft’s OS, but it says the majority of Acer netbooks will also offer Android in the future, enabling users to pick the best operating method for their needs.Acer followed Monday’s announcement with news on Tuesday morning that it will launch Acer Aspire One netbooks based on the Android platform, as well. In a statement, Acer said the netbooks would hit the market in advance of the smartphones and would be available 3Q09.
“Netbooks are designed to be compact in size and easy to connect to the Internet wherever you go,” said Jim Wong, president of IT Products Global Operation, Acer in a statement Tuesday. “The Android operating system offers incredibly fast wireless connection to the Internet; for this reason, Acer has decided to develop Android netbooks for added convenience to our customers.”
Acer believes that the free, open source mobile platform “will contribute significantly to the worldwide netbook market growth.” Acer will continue to manufacture systems built on Microsoft’s OS, but it says the majority of Acer netbooks will also offer Android in the future, enabling users to choose the best operating system for their needs.
With the move toward Android, Acer is wisely banking on the value-add that open source applications by third-party developers bring to end-users.
Other announcements
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Android is now available
Today is a huge day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, & the open-source community. All of the work that we have poured in to the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project.
You'll be hearing a lot about Android devices. We have all put a lot of hard work in to the first Android tool, & I am happy with the way it turned out. But one tool is the beginning.
Android is not a single piece of hardware; it is a complete, end-to-end application platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations. Everything is there, from the bootloader all the way up to the applications. & with an Android tool already on the market, it's proven that it's what it takes to truly compete in the mobile arena.
Even if you are not planning to ship a mobile tool any time soon, Android has a lot to offer. Interested in working on a speech-recognition library? Looking to do some research on virtual machines? Need an out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution? All of these pieces are available, right now, as part of the Android Open Source Project, along with graphics libraries, media codecs, & a number of the best development tools I have ever worked with.
This is an exciting time for Android, & we are getting started. It takes a lot of work to keep up with the changes in the mobile industry. But they require to do over keep up; they require to lead the way, to try things out, to add the new features that everyone else is scrambling to keep up with. But they cannot do it without your help.
Have a great idea for a new feature? Add it! As an open source project, the best part is that someone can contribute to Android & influence its direction. & if the platform becomes as ubiquitous as I hope it will, you may finish up influencing the future of mobile devices as a whole.
You'll be hearing a lot about Android devices. We have all put a lot of hard work in to the first Android tool, & I am happy with the way it turned out. But one tool is the beginning.
Android is not a single piece of hardware; it is a complete, end-to-end application platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations. Everything is there, from the bootloader all the way up to the applications. & with an Android tool already on the market, it's proven that it's what it takes to truly compete in the mobile arena.
Even if you are not planning to ship a mobile tool any time soon, Android has a lot to offer. Interested in working on a speech-recognition library? Looking to do some research on virtual machines? Need an out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution? All of these pieces are available, right now, as part of the Android Open Source Project, along with graphics libraries, media codecs, & a number of the best development tools I have ever worked with.
This is an exciting time for Android, & we are getting started. It takes a lot of work to keep up with the changes in the mobile industry. But they require to do over keep up; they require to lead the way, to try things out, to add the new features that everyone else is scrambling to keep up with. But they cannot do it without your help.
Have a great idea for a new feature? Add it! As an open source project, the best part is that someone can contribute to Android & influence its direction. & if the platform becomes as ubiquitous as I hope it will, you may finish up influencing the future of mobile devices as a whole.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Android Phones
The new Android phones are phones that operate on the Linux Kernal mobile operating System. It was developed by Android Inc, and later purchased by Google. This system enables developers to write managed codes in the java language and control the device with Google developed Java libraries.
The Android Phones are the phones of the future because they combine the ultimate advances in mobile phones, video, cameras, PC's and Navigation systems with multiple applications. The Phase development of the Android Phones started with the first model that had bugs and poor documentation, this was first introduced with the Sake Game-Android Development Phone. Next came the Android SDK it had a debugger, libraries, documentation, and tutorials. The final droid was the Android OS-Donut which added supports like voice search, priced applications and Gmail freeze fixes.
The Android OS system is important in this new system because it allows third party developers to create their own screen widgets. This allows for more applications and more opportunities for the manufacturer. The new Android Phones are being made by Google, Motorola, and HTC, LG, Dell and others breaking into the Smartphone market. The technology that it promises is ground breaking. The Android system acts like a robot, the user tells it what to do and it does it with supposed lightening speed.
The new Android Phones are basically bringing the desktop to the mobile phones. It allows for emailing, instant messaging, and web browsing all at the same time. It can run applications in the background while the user goes to a social network site. It also allows the user to listen to music and write an email at the same time, while talking on the phone. The possibilities are endless; the Android system allows several applications to run at the same time, just as a computer with windows does.
There are thousand of applications available for the Android phones and more are becoming available everyday. With the apps and the ability to multitask without having to shut down one act to do another is the new age of the mobile phones thanks to Goggles Android system. The new Android 2.0 is the latest in the line of Android systems to hit the market. The capabilities and promises are coming true very quickly as 2.0.1 stands ready for release.
Many people enjoy using the Android Phones already and sales have been phenomenal. Everyone wants a system that acts like a PC but is really a phone with all of the capabilities. The technology has just begun and there is more to come.
The author of this article has built and maintained multiple websites that support Cell Phones and Smartphones. The goals are help users get the most out of the newest technology and understand it. As the Android Operating System has been developed and installed by many carriers more user are looking for tips and tricks to optimize there Smartphones.
Seeing the author as been following Android since the day Google announced working the open source platform it is very fitting that he has built Droid Cell Phone. A Knowledge base and blog that's sole purpose is to help Android users.
He is a true authority with 7 years plus of involvement with telephone technology.
The Android Phones are the phones of the future because they combine the ultimate advances in mobile phones, video, cameras, PC's and Navigation systems with multiple applications. The Phase development of the Android Phones started with the first model that had bugs and poor documentation, this was first introduced with the Sake Game-Android Development Phone. Next came the Android SDK it had a debugger, libraries, documentation, and tutorials. The final droid was the Android OS-Donut which added supports like voice search, priced applications and Gmail freeze fixes.
The Android OS system is important in this new system because it allows third party developers to create their own screen widgets. This allows for more applications and more opportunities for the manufacturer. The new Android Phones are being made by Google, Motorola, and HTC, LG, Dell and others breaking into the Smartphone market. The technology that it promises is ground breaking. The Android system acts like a robot, the user tells it what to do and it does it with supposed lightening speed.
The new Android Phones are basically bringing the desktop to the mobile phones. It allows for emailing, instant messaging, and web browsing all at the same time. It can run applications in the background while the user goes to a social network site. It also allows the user to listen to music and write an email at the same time, while talking on the phone. The possibilities are endless; the Android system allows several applications to run at the same time, just as a computer with windows does.
There are thousand of applications available for the Android phones and more are becoming available everyday. With the apps and the ability to multitask without having to shut down one act to do another is the new age of the mobile phones thanks to Goggles Android system. The new Android 2.0 is the latest in the line of Android systems to hit the market. The capabilities and promises are coming true very quickly as 2.0.1 stands ready for release.
Many people enjoy using the Android Phones already and sales have been phenomenal. Everyone wants a system that acts like a PC but is really a phone with all of the capabilities. The technology has just begun and there is more to come.
The author of this article has built and maintained multiple websites that support Cell Phones and Smartphones. The goals are help users get the most out of the newest technology and understand it. As the Android Operating System has been developed and installed by many carriers more user are looking for tips and tricks to optimize there Smartphones.
Seeing the author as been following Android since the day Google announced working the open source platform it is very fitting that he has built Droid Cell Phone. A Knowledge base and blog that's sole purpose is to help Android users.
He is a true authority with 7 years plus of involvement with telephone technology.
How Google Integrates with the Android Phone
Google and T-Mobile have teamed up to create a new breed of cell phone, called the T-Mobile G1 Android. Traditionally, an "android" is traditionally defined as a robot with human qualities.
It's known as the T-Mobile G1 Android, the Android Phone, the G1 Phone, or (more informally) the Google Phone.
The G1 Phone integrates fully with your Google accounts. Here are a few of the features and capabilities of this new cell phone:
* An Android phone allows you to browse the Internet just as you would on a normal computer.
* It allows one to run several applications at the same time, on one phone. You can switch between applications, and you can also be notified when something new occurs on one of those applications.
* It allows you to chat and share photos on applications such as Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, etc.
* It allows you to copy URLs and share them with friends via a chat line, using a simple touch-screen interface.
The following Google applications can be accessed and used directly by the Android Phone:
* Google Maps
* YouTube
* Gmail
* Contacts
* Calendar
* IM (Instant Message)
All of these Google applications will be available to you with a single logon - and they will automatically be synchronized with the web. What that means is that any change you make in one of your google accounts from your phone will also show up the next time you log on from any other computer.
For example, when you are out and about with your phone and you meet a new contact, you might want to save their contact information. All you do is save it into your Google Contacts on your G1 phone. That information will be available to you any time online, in your Gmail account, and in any other applicable Google account, and you can access it through any computer in the world which is connected to the Internet.
Any information you save on your phone in this way will appear on your computer as well - and vice-versa.
If you lose or break your phone, your data will still be there waiting for you on your Google account, which you can access from anywhere in the world. And there is no need to worry about your information being stolen, as its password-protected.
Here is another example of the a use of a Google Android phone. Once you have a contact address saved into your Google account, you can easily find that location on a map - using Google Maps, of course. And what's more, you can access street level events in any area where this is available.
This makes it a breeze to get directions to a new location! Simply find your contact on a a map with a couple of clicks, and use a street-level view to find your way if needed!
Another example of the use of the this phone is the integration of the cell phone with your Google Calendar. Any event you save on your Google Calendar will be available to you on your phone, wherever you are. So you can access your schedule easily, on the go and from anywhere, as long as you have your phone with you.
No more schedule books! And you can say goodbye to those tiny notebooks and pads of paper you carry around so that you can jot down notes and phone numbers.
What's more, once you save information on your Android phone, there's no need to transfer it over after you get home. Its all there, safely stored on your Google accountFree Web Content, for ready access whenever you need it.
It's known as the T-Mobile G1 Android, the Android Phone, the G1 Phone, or (more informally) the Google Phone.
The G1 Phone integrates fully with your Google accounts. Here are a few of the features and capabilities of this new cell phone:
* An Android phone allows you to browse the Internet just as you would on a normal computer.
* It allows one to run several applications at the same time, on one phone. You can switch between applications, and you can also be notified when something new occurs on one of those applications.
* It allows you to chat and share photos on applications such as Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, etc.
* It allows you to copy URLs and share them with friends via a chat line, using a simple touch-screen interface.
The following Google applications can be accessed and used directly by the Android Phone:
* Google Maps
* YouTube
* Gmail
* Contacts
* Calendar
* IM (Instant Message)
All of these Google applications will be available to you with a single logon - and they will automatically be synchronized with the web. What that means is that any change you make in one of your google accounts from your phone will also show up the next time you log on from any other computer.
For example, when you are out and about with your phone and you meet a new contact, you might want to save their contact information. All you do is save it into your Google Contacts on your G1 phone. That information will be available to you any time online, in your Gmail account, and in any other applicable Google account, and you can access it through any computer in the world which is connected to the Internet.
Any information you save on your phone in this way will appear on your computer as well - and vice-versa.
If you lose or break your phone, your data will still be there waiting for you on your Google account, which you can access from anywhere in the world. And there is no need to worry about your information being stolen, as its password-protected.
Here is another example of the a use of a Google Android phone. Once you have a contact address saved into your Google account, you can easily find that location on a map - using Google Maps, of course. And what's more, you can access street level events in any area where this is available.
This makes it a breeze to get directions to a new location! Simply find your contact on a a map with a couple of clicks, and use a street-level view to find your way if needed!
Another example of the use of the this phone is the integration of the cell phone with your Google Calendar. Any event you save on your Google Calendar will be available to you on your phone, wherever you are. So you can access your schedule easily, on the go and from anywhere, as long as you have your phone with you.
No more schedule books! And you can say goodbye to those tiny notebooks and pads of paper you carry around so that you can jot down notes and phone numbers.
What's more, once you save information on your Android phone, there's no need to transfer it over after you get home. Its all there, safely stored on your Google accountFree Web Content, for ready access whenever you need it.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
what Is Android?
what Is Android?
Android is a complete software stack for mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs and high end MP3 players. The software stack is split into four layers:
* The application layer
* The application framework
* The libraries and runtime
* The kernel
Cell phone users obviously work with applications in the application layer. Android developers write those applications using the application framework. Unlike many embedded operating environments, Android applications are all equal -- that is, the applications that come with the phone are no different than those that any developer writes. In fact, using the IntentFilter API, any application can handle any event that the user or system can generate. This sounds a bit scary at first, but Android has a well thought-out security model based on Unix file system permissions that assure applications have only those abilities that cell phone owner gave them at install time. The framework is supported by numerous open source libraries such as openssl, sqlite and libc. It is also supported by the Android core libraries -- more on that in a second. At the bottom of the stack sits the Linux 2.6 kernel, providing the low level hardware interfaces that we all expect from a kernel. This is a Unix based system -- that is, the Unix C APIs are available -- but don't expect to drop to a shell and start executing shell scripts with your old friends grep and awk. Most of the Unix utilities are simply not there. Instead Android supplies a well thought out API for writing applications -- in Java using the Android core libraries.
That's right, Android applications are almost exclusively written in Java. The Android core library is a big .jar file that is supported by the Dalvik Virtual Machine -- a fast and efficient JVM work-alike that enables java-coded applications to work on the Android cell phone. This is similar to, but not the same as using Sun's JVM directly.
Building your development environment
Android is a complete software stack for mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs and high end MP3 players. The software stack is split into four layers:
* The application layer
* The application framework
* The libraries and runtime
* The kernel
Cell phone users obviously work with applications in the application layer. Android developers write those applications using the application framework. Unlike many embedded operating environments, Android applications are all equal -- that is, the applications that come with the phone are no different than those that any developer writes. In fact, using the IntentFilter API, any application can handle any event that the user or system can generate. This sounds a bit scary at first, but Android has a well thought-out security model based on Unix file system permissions that assure applications have only those abilities that cell phone owner gave them at install time. The framework is supported by numerous open source libraries such as openssl, sqlite and libc. It is also supported by the Android core libraries -- more on that in a second. At the bottom of the stack sits the Linux 2.6 kernel, providing the low level hardware interfaces that we all expect from a kernel. This is a Unix based system -- that is, the Unix C APIs are available -- but don't expect to drop to a shell and start executing shell scripts with your old friends grep and awk. Most of the Unix utilities are simply not there. Instead Android supplies a well thought out API for writing applications -- in Java using the Android core libraries.
That's right, Android applications are almost exclusively written in Java. The Android core library is a big .jar file that is supported by the Dalvik Virtual Machine -- a fast and efficient JVM work-alike that enables java-coded applications to work on the Android cell phone. This is similar to, but not the same as using Sun's JVM directly.
Building your development environment
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