... , held hands to announce to the world their new child. His name was Android, and we were told very little about him. What we were told, though, was delivered almost entirely in frustratingly vague platitudes: ... waited, patiently. And waited. Then, nearly a year later, we got our hands on the first hardware to actually use Android. It was called the T-Mobile G1, and It Was Good. Then, six months later ...

... stiff competion for Apple's iPhone. Has it? Not yet, but as the year has gone on, there have been more signs that Android is picking up traction with handset makers, operators and application developers. ... its first Android handset, although this has turned out (so far) to be untrue. Don't forget that Android can be used for other devices too. Acer is one of the companies putting it in ...

... RelativeLayout RelativeLayout is the most versatile layout offered by the Android UI toolkit and can be successfully used to reduce the number ... " is declared after "band" and, in Android 1.5, RelativeLayout does not know how to handle this case. ... (R.id.myOtherButton).setOnClickListener(handler); With Android 1.6, none of this is necessary. All you have to do is declare a public method ...

... bringing it over to the iPhone as well. The important point here is that it showed up on Android first, and it will probably take months for it to get to the iPhone. There’s nothing stopping Google ... firm and convinced them otherwise. At the very least, they need to make sure this never happens again. As for devices not featuring Android 2.0, it’s currently up to handset manufacturers ...

... -interested, but there's little confusion as to who's in charge. Android could become yet another failed partnership among selfish, oafish industry ... credible "iPhone killer." Android 2.0 has the best chance of joining the BlackBerry ... market is young and fluid enough to confound any predictions. For example, Android could fail under the competing interests and reactionary approaches ...

... in a future blog entry. Just as some background, I came into this event and have been using Android since before it was officially released. I was one of the first people in line at the ... really weren't all about trying to bash or take down the qualities of other devices out there. And therein is the beauty of Android. You have manufactures, focusing on what they do best (make good hardware) and ...