Category: mobile

Android - the Mobile Developer Relief

November 13, 2007 by Artem

Yesterday Google eventually unveiled the details of its mobile platform called Android. The least I can say is that I am impressed. The application level is all Java based, no Linux C, no legacy EPOC C++, no even standard C++. It's all readable Java with the garbage collector, reflection, extensive unit-testing support and zillion of standard and not so standard libraries many of which are actually documented.

Platform, Applications and Product Management

However, what impressed me most was not the wonderful architecture, that allows you to change the very phone dialer, not the Linux kernel as the only porting requirement, not even the Java language. Several years ago I was working together with the folks building another Java phone you might have never heard of - so I know very well that Java is no silver bullet for the phones.