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No, I’m not talking about Alice Cooper’s hit. This article refers to Google’s behaviour regarding Android and Standards. More concretely, about the fact of XMPP being banished from Android in favor of Google’s own protocol for Instant Messaging.

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What about the launch date of one of the most expected mobile OS, Android?

Google: “We’re still on track to announce Android-powered phones this year. Some of our partners are publicly stating that they plan to ship Android phones in the fourth quarter.”

huh!, it sounds maybe this fall, perhaps for Christmas.

They have to hurry if they want to have something in the market to compete with the new iPhone, Blackberry bold, HTC Diamond and Sony Xperia for example, and for Xmas is the best chance to introduce this amazing Open Source Mobile OS, with or without the rumored gPhone.

Via CrunchGear

Andy Rubin, Android’s Project Leader said the following words:

“It would be a great benefit to the Android community to provide a place where people can go to safely and securely download content and where a billing system would allow developers to get paid for their effort. We wouldn’t have done our job if we didn’t provide something that helps developers get distribution.”

So everything points to Google offering an iPhone-like App Store to download  ANDROID applications. I hope they don’t mean to make this the only way to do it, as long as it would be a wrong idea.

These kind of stores are good alternatives for easy application distribution. Freeware, demos, etc.. The idea could  also be good for commercial applications like games, productivity applications, etc.. But in an enterprise environment, with applications being distributed in a controlled environment, its better to trust in-house deployment, for security reasons.

We’ll have to keep an eye on the news surrounding ANDROID.

Things are getting pretty exciting lately!!!

Via The Register

Android live demo was presented yesterday on a HTC device, rumored HTC “Dream”, at the company’s I/O conference in San Francisco.

Check in the following video how android runs.

Google StreetView is awesome!

Google Maps looks great too.

That is great and i love the unlock screen, that is so fresh!, but, what about the multi-touch features?

Via EngadgetMobile
Link Screenshots

Thanks to Xataka Móvil, we know about the Boincoid project, an Android port of BOINC platform, that is one of the most famous platforms for grid computing.

BOINC was released by Berkeley University and serves as the foundations for grid projects like SETI@home (a reference in grid computing), Rosetta@home, ClimatePrediction and many others.

Now, an Israel-based team has managed to port its 40,000 lines of open-sourced C++ code to Android platform. They have announced an upcoming Java platform version, as well.

Their first goal was Android Developer Challenge, but once they are not in the Top 50, we hope they will go on with the project.

Anyway, mobile grid faces some barriers that makes its adoption a bit harder than PC-based grid computing. First, power comsumption. Battery life is a very precious thing in mobile devices - despite PCs, where it can be simply not considered. Second, data plans. Nowadays, data plans of mobile carriers are not cheap enough in order to people spend their money on grid computing.

Via XatakaMovil
Link Boincoid

We had already talked about QuickOffice, the suite that brings Office document support to Palm, S60 and UIQ users.

Now, in a recent meeting with PC Magazine they showed a new version for Android running. Moreover, they declared to be working on an upcoming release for iPhone.

More accurately, Quickoffice for Android lets users edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents, access online Google Docs, and access documents stored on home PCs through the Internet.

The last functionality comes from a partnership with SoonR, a company which has a remote-access technology for PC files.

Via EngadgetMobile
Link PCMagazine

The Android Developer Challenge, the one with the $10 million in awards for the best 50 mobile apps, has finished its initial phase with the amazing count of 1788 mobile apps participating.

Submissions are now closed, with USA as the number one in participants, followed by Germany and Japan. The lucky winners will be announced next 21th July.

Via XatakaMovil

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Next 6th of May, HTC is going to present his new phones.

Among them we can probably see a mobile booted Android and the other ones booted Windows Mobile interface Manila (new version of TouchFLO).

Moreover, they could surprise us with a new model with two different version (with and without sliding QWERTY board, the far left model and the far right of the second row in the picture).

Via: Xataka

Google Android guys have announced a new update of the SDK. The name: M5-rc15. It still sounds like a Star Wars droid name, and we love it.

A couple of week ago, a vulnerability was found in image files handling functionality. This is the main  issue solved in this new release, along with other minor bugs and a more complete documentation.

For all of you developing with Android SDK, this is a strongly recommended update. Gentlemen, update your sdks!!!

Google keeps on making efforts to support early Android developers. Now, Google has announced the creation of a new project called ‘apps-for-Android’ in their Google Code site.

The goal for this project is to include sample applications that will demonstrate different aspects of the Android platform.

The first sample application is ‘WikiNotes for Android ‘, a personal wiki that helps people to organize personal information. It remains small in size and features to make it easy to understand, in words of Dick Wall, one of the bloggers of ‘Android Developer Blog’. Indeed, “though more features will be added to make it more useful, a sample version with the minimal functionality will always be available for developers new to the Android platform”.

This is a very interesting innitiative that will help to centralize the access to up-to-date sample code for Android.

Link AndroidDevBlog