Android is getting sweeter
With the release of Android 1.6 a.k.a. “Donut”, Android continues its path towards main-stream mobile acceptance
For the past year I’ve been watching Android mature — and waiting. After finishing the Android book earlier in the year I’ve done a little with it, but to be candid, most of my mobile development cycles have been spent focused on some other platforms — platforms that are shipping like iPhone and BlackBerry. Yes, I am probably guilty of lacking vision by not entering applications into the Developer Challenges. And perhaps I should have been laying the foundation for a future Android application which will take over the world when more devices appear on the market. And I’m guilty of countless other things, but unfortunately the tyranny of the urgent tends to still dominate my professional world. Things are going to change. Both for my time management focus and the Android horizon. I won’t bore you here and now with how things in my world are going to change, but I will give you some insight to what is happening in the Android space. Now before you get too excited, I don’t exactly have an inside track to the things happening at the Open Handset Alliance, nor do I have anyone at Google on my speed-dial. I don’t even have an updated piece of hardware — yet! I am just reading the touch-screen tea leaves and want to share a few observations.
