Thanks to my folks from PartMaster I own a Android Dev Phone 1 for a couple of weeks now. I am quite impressed by the Android platform, although the G1 is not quite as slick as the IPhone. But this definitely has a huge potential. Especially the extensiblity and openess are amazing.
Coding for Android is no different from regular java, but it takes a while to get to know the framework concepts and classes. I chose to port the minesweeper code which I already use in eidle. Since I could reuse the model code as is, I had the basic game running within an hour and could then focus on the UI widgets, menus, preferences and lifecycle issues etc. This was really fun and ideal to get used to android. The application is not finished yet, but it is working smoothly already.
Stay tuned for updates.
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