Google's Android OS early look SDK now available

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Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet. Pedal your steam-engine over to the Open Handset Alliance site where you can download the SDK for a variety of platforms. Here's what we know the software will support right now:

Touchscreen

3G

Webkit-based browser

Threaded text messaging

MPEG-4, h.264, MP3, and AAC file formats

3D graphics

From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable on larger, VGA devices as it is on more traditional smartphone layouts. Oh yeah... and it plays Quake. Below you can see an alternate fullscreen version of the phone (a hardware reference model, not a device you can expect to buy anytime soon) up and running its browser app. Check the videos after the break to see more info than you can shake a stick at on the new platform.

Source:

Engadget

Google

Looks very impressive and promising.

Dont be fooled by the above image... check out the videos

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Threaded text messaging?

^^^

like IMs...

or another example is gmail conversations... like if you reply/get reply to an email it continues in the same email itself...

Nokia already have it .. Conversation is a nice app ..

$10m dollars for anyone developing the best apps? That's awesome!! I guess companies like Apple and Microsoft can take a page from this book.

Thanks for info.any sealeard date announced

M

Cyrus_the_virus said:
$10m dollars for anyone developing the best apps? That's awesome!! I guess companies like Apple and Microsoft can take a page from this book.

No, it will be divided among the developers. Read this page carefully - *code.google.com/android/adc.html

I have been playing around a bit with it and it's fun. And the nice thing is that they've only given out a half working emulator so far. That's really nice for beginners like me to explore a bit.

mehulved said:
No, it will be divided among the developers. Read this page carefully - *code.google.com/android/adc.html

I fully understand that it will be divided, what i meant was that a company is willing to shell out that kind of money on say 'sofware freelancers', that's what I meant. Imagine Microsoft trying to pay freelancers willing to develop for them

(I'm not talking about the freebies you get, real money!)