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Android developer challenge ($10 million in awards)
- jsjenkins168 19y agoAs far as I can tell, there are no strings attached with this offer. They simply give you the cash with nothing expected in return. And 50 teams selected for the $25k prize are good ods, not to mention great publicity. Start coding!
- laxk3 19y agoDo you have any idea about an application for the androind platform?
- mnemonicsloth 19y agoTitle got my hopes up. Robotics > Embedded development
- mrtron 19y agoNice...extra incentive to code for their platform. Plenty of time to finish too!
- shayan 19y agoSeeding the Google Phone With Apps NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/seeding-the-google-phone-with-apps/index.html http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/seeding-the-google-... by Dave Winer http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/12/android.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/12/android.html Google Android: we want developers but... by Robert Scoble http://scobleizer.com/2007/11/12/google-android-we-want-developers-but/ http://scobleizer.com/2007/11/12/google-android-we-want-deve...
- michaelneale 19y agoHow do people actually read scoble?
- shayan 19y agowhat do you mean how? whats wrong with it?
- michaelneale 19y agoHe writes like a 8 year old talks, only without the SMS-ish shortcuts. Its like he tapped it out on a phone while on the toilet, and is just an annoying style to read. I miss tech writing.
- shayan 19y agoI like his blog, he doesn't cover everything that is hot there is other sources for that ... he tries to find more unique stuff, and has some interesting videos ... I agree about his writing style to some extend, but at the same time it feels more like a real blog, like what a blog is supposed to feel like, its more personal ...
- michaelneale 19y agoFair enough, I guess its a matter of taste. I just like a slightly more journalistic style when opinions are stated (and in this case its all opinions). I guess I just think blogging for bloggings sake is a bit silly, but I do like it when it is from other sources. Its just a bit to ADHD for my taste, but I guess if he is digesting things quickly for other people, there must be some value in that.
- shayan 19y agoya and I think he has been on Twitter way too much lately, so he is also getting used to that way of writing, lol
- karthikv 19y agoThe only thing that sucks (for me) is the app has to be developed using Java. The SDK does not support native application development yet.
- mnemonicsloth 19y agoDo you mean written in Java, or targeted to the JVM? Apologies if this is a dumb question -- I haven't read this yet.
- amalcon 19y agoYeah, that is a very important distinction.
- karthikv 19y agoI meant written in Java. BTW, they have their own VM called Dalvik virtual machine.
- michaelneale 19y agoThere are people trying (I am one of them). It runs off bytecode (which is converts to another format) - so it looks possible. Will find out shortly. I am interested in jruby, jython and scala.
- andyn 19y agoYou write it in Java and then it's compiled to their own proprietary virtual machine - Davlik. Rather than Jython, I'd hope for a tool that would turn python straight onto Davlik bytecode. Hopefully there should be either documentation/source for the VM at some point or an enterprising person is reverse engineering it as we speak.
- jsjenkins168 19y agoJust curious, why is that a problem? The whole idea behind Android is that handset manufacturers can be free to vary their underlying linux implementations as long as they can adapt their drivers to the Android libraries. Then the programmer can code to this common interface without worrying about differences between handsets. If you were coding directly to the handsets native functionality then you break the cross platform universality. Then its just a repeat of JavaME all over again where you end up with separate builds for different devices. From what I've read so far, there technically shouldn't be a reason why Ruby (via JRuby) and Python (via Jython) couldnt eventually be used to code Android apps. The SDK compiles Java code to native java byte code, which is in turn compiled to "Dalvik" byte code to be used by the Android VM. How the java byte code is generated (javac, jruby, jython, etc) should not matter, assuming it is using only the supported libraries.
- utnick 19y agoI don't really see anything revolutionary that Android has over J2ME. Is there something I am missing? Probably most apps are going to be simple android interfaces to existing web services. But that being said you can be sure I am going to learn the api and submit an app for a shot at 25K.
- davidw 19y agoWell, the hope is that Google will get things right that Sun didn't. Developing for J2ME isn't much fun, and, like a lot of Java ick, is full of things like "JSR 69", which of course makes you go look up wtf that JSR is if you haven't memorized it.
- samwise 19y agoI think most of you lack the vision to see how power a tool this really is. yes, there are a thousand ways this could fail. However if it does pan out like google plans, it will change the way we think about cell phones/mobile devices. The mobile device market is a huge untapped market that has yet to realize the true power of privately developed apps. If carriers adopt fully adopt android, the possibilities are endless.
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