More on Android

A very good first project piece from Reto Meier that nicely links the address book to the GPS to a map. A very good demonstration from a C# programmer (although with a background in Java).

For an intelligently critical viewpoint try Unqualified Reservations – a blog often more about politics than software. I think the most interesting point raised here is to do with Android graphics. Here the choice of pixel drawing functions looks plain wrong – despite the fact that such functions will certainly run faster on the current generation of devices than a vector based approach – the trick is to write for tomorrows devices f you want to be tomorrows winner. However it got me thinking about the browser end of the package – surely Google’s strength is Internet based - so why isn’t more of the SDK about Internet applications – with a brilliant JavaScript engine? Interesting that.