Giving Android a spin

Posted by George Wright Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:19:00 GMT

With the recent announcement of the Google Android mobile phone and the subsequent release of their SDK, I couldn’t resist downloading it and giving it a play.

First thoughts are very positive; the user interface is clean, uncluttered and I think it makes good use of the screen space. One of my favourite gems is the iPhone-like scroll bar mechanism, which only appear when you’re actually scrolling and disappear, thus not wasting a valuable column of pixels on needless information!

As anticipated, there are still a few rough edges, but as it’s still very early on this isn’t surprising. Nonetheless, I’m very impressed with their SDK (which is only a 55MB download!) and I hope to have a look at the actual APIs soon. Hopefully some day I’ll be able to put this on the HTC Universal!

In unrelated news, a Google Summer of Code 2007 shirt arrived for me at home today; thanks Google!

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  1. dumas65 said about 2 hours later:

    It very interesting, can you give little more info on this topic. That phone you used, few photos how does software look like.

  2. JS said about 5 hours later:

    @dumas65

    The SDK includes an Emulator. http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html

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