{"id":1658,"date":"2007-11-12T21:57:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2007-11-12T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T00:57:43","slug":"android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1658","title":{"rendered":"Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> noticed that Google has released their <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/\">Android SDK<\/a>, which is an attempt to break open the cellphone market. There are a couple of exciting things to mention but the most important is that Google has adopted <a href=\"http:\/\/webkit.org\/\"><em>Webkit<\/em><\/a>, you know the main engine used by Safari, which originally came from KDE&#8217;s KHTML. Additionally, there&#8217;s built-in support for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khronos.org\/opengles\/\">OpenGL:ES (Embedded Systems)<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>It comes as no surprise that Google has opted for Java as the main language for Android development (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6ObTqIiYfE\">application development video<\/a>). There are mixed messages about which version of Java Google is using: it appears that their engineers came up with their own Java Pcode compiler. Most Android-specific Java libraries appear to be wrappers around the C libraries (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mm6Ju0xhUW8\">see the software stack video<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be interesting how this will playout against the other platforms of other software companies, most notably, Windows Mobile for Devices (.Net\/CF) and Apple&#8217;s portable OS X. Since I&#8217;m familiar with writing Windows Mobile applications:if I have time later this week, I may be able to look into Android and see for myself what the buzz is about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that Google has released their Android SDK, which is an attempt to break open the cellphone market. There are a couple of exciting things to mention but the most important is that Google has adopted Webkit, you know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[203,191,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}