Androidian

Usually Google provides the sources of a new Android release when there is the first device out in the market. With the Motorola Droid (Milestone in Germany) out people eagerly waited for the 2.0 sources.
Yesterday Google pushed the Eclair sources into the AOSP repository. For everyone interested get them by using the the familiar repo [...]

We will give an presentation about the subject “Android on other devices” (Android auf neuen Wegen) during the ESE congress (Embedded  Software Engineering Congress), dec 9th in Sindelfingen, Germany.
As the title already states the topic is Android on devices other than “ordinary” phones. As you can see in our Archos A5 Internet Tablet review this [...]

A few days ago i got this question if the “Android Scripting Environment” (ASE) was the next big thing after Java/dalvik. My answer could have changed the scope of some ongoing projects so i went back to the project just to double check. The idea was to shortly introduce ASE here and to position it [...]

The Android NDK is finally available. This tool allows the developer to reach into the C/C++ level of the Linux host system which builds the foundation of the Android dalvik engine. It is not intended to develop comlete, self contained native Android applications per se – it is designed to allow computation intensive tasks or [...]