Android News

This page has links to news about the Android platform

1 Android News Portals
2 Interviews
3 Industry/Consortium news
- 3.1 Mentor Graphics acquires Embedded
  Alley
- 3.2 OESF
4 Software
5 Features
- 5.1 Interfaces
- 5.2 Applications
6 Phone news
7 Netbooks and MIDs

Android News Portals

http://androidguys.com/ - General news
http://androinica.com/ - Android Blog

Interviews

Google’s Rubin: Android ‘a
revolution’ -
CNet News May 2009

“Android, Google’s mobile operating system, doesn’t generate revenue
for the company, and likely never will—at least in the direct sense.
But Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile platforms, thinks Google and
the world will benefit from any device created with the intent of
getting more people onto the Internet, and isn’t shy about explaining
why the open-source approach chosen for Android holds the most promise
of reaching that goal.”

Industry/Consortium news

Mentor Graphics acquires Embedded Alley

Mentor Graphics, a large EDA firm, acquires the embedded Linux
consulting company Embedded Alley, in July, 2009.

See
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Mentor-Graphics-acquires-Embedded-Alley/

OESF

The Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF) is an Android Consortium
formed in Japan in February, 2009. It included 23 companies at startup,
and has the support of Google.

See
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090325/167661/

Software

Releases

Android SDK version
3.0 (Honeycomb)
Android SDK version
2.3.3
Android SDK version
2.3
(Gingerbread)
Android SDK version
2.2 (Froyo)
Android SDK version
2.1 (Eclair 2.1)
released (Jan 12, 2010)
- http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Android_21_SDK_Released/551-108663-580.html
Android version
1.6 (Donut)
released (version 4 released December 2009)
Android version
1.5 (Cupcake)
released (April 2009)
- Android 1.5 ‘Cupcake’ starts arriving on
  G1s
  ComputerWorld, April 30, 2009
- Android 1.5 firmware
  available LWN.net, April 27,
  2009
  - HTC (the manufacturer of the Android Dev Phone) has posted a
    set of Android 1.5 images for the ADP1. There’s also
    reasonably straightforward instructions on flashing those
    images into a phone

Ports

Android ported to
MIPS
Linuxdevices, April 2009
- Embedded Alley has ported Android to the Alchemy MIPS processor.
Android ported to various ARM
processors (ARM9,
ARM11 and Cortex-A8 based). Including e.g. OSK board,
Nokia N800, Nokia N810, BeagleBoard,
Devkit8000 and Gumstix Overo board.
Devkit7000 Samsung
S5PV210 based board.
Devkit8500D TI
DM3730 based board.