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Android 1.5 SDK Is Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-hack-on dept.

RadiusK writes "Starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. Version 1.5 introduces APIs for features such as soft keyboards, home screen widgets, live folders, and speech recognition. At the developer site, you can download the early-look Android 1.5 SDK, read important information about upgrading your Eclipse plugin and existing projects, and learn about what's new and improved in Android 1.5."

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  1. Re:but where's my motivation? by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then I am sure the people who own Android phones thank you. DRM is not something they want, you can keep that stuff for the mac fans.

  2. That's nice... by pdragon04 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...now how about getting some more phones that can actually use it?

  3. Re:C API yet? by josath · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is that mobile phone apps pretty much have to be sandboxed, and that's a lot harder to do with C/C++ than it is with something like Java. The tools available on modern PC's for sandboxing applications don't even work all that well most of the time (see Vista). Now imagine that instead of a full-powered PC with all sorts of extensions and opcodes and so on, you're running on a much more limited platform. (sidenote: technically Android isn't pure Java, they've created their own bytecode, so they aren't beholden to Sun's iron grasp)

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    sig? uhh, umm, ok