WifiArmy.com and w2pi.com have posted a video on YouTube hyping their upcoming Android game and submission to the Android Developers Contest. The video shows the game using GPS and WiFi tracking to find and track other players similar to FPS games like Halo and Quake. At this point, it appears you use the [...]

kriggio at Bumble Machine has written a helpful description of his experiences writing his first Android application (Android Blackjack). He outlines the ease at which he was able to transition his Eclipse and Java skills to the Android SDK, and discusses challenges he faced with some of the differences in accessing resources (card images). [...]

Davanum Srinivas has really been having fun with Android this week, releasing new source code on an almost daily basis. Today he releases a *totally* unofficial Gtalk client for Android. He also includes source code for sending and receiving XMPP messages and authenticating with Gtalk.

Source: Totally *Unofficial* Gtalk Client For Android [davanum.wordpress.com]

This is a completely unconfirmed story, however there is a YouTube video out today claiming to be Android running on an Armadillo-500.

At Benno’s Blog, you can follow the detailed notes of Benno’s journey in trying to port the Android emulator binaries to the Neo 1973 OpenMoko handset.  Unfortunately, it will not be possible to complete at this time - but if you read through Benno’s journey you’ll see that it would have required many hacks to [...]

Davanum Srinivas has been having some fun creating Android tutorials and releasing his sample code since the platform was released last week. Yesterday, he released his sample concept code for a Twitter client.

Over the weekend, he released his BrowseMap 2.0 sample code for using Overlay to draw Starbucks locations onto a map, as [...]

Around the virtual water cooler today, many major news sources discuss Google’s development of their own virtual machine to execute java syntax code in the Android platform, rather than licensing Sun’s JME directly from Sun.  Dalvik executes bytecode converted from java bytecode.   Having their own VM allows Google to optimize Java execution for their own [...]

Reto Meier at Google Blogoscoped has written an Android tutorial on his experiences creating an application for Android which merges the maps, location api (GPS), contact book and phone dialer together. His application, Where are my Friends (WamF), leverages the core GUI and location API to figure out and map where your friends live [...]

After months of heavy speculation, Google entered the mobile applications market by unveiling Android, its new mobile software platform. The release came as a surprise to many who expected the release of the fabled gPhone, however it should come as no surprise that Google would finally release the Android platform in aquired in 2006 [...]