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 [...]