• Abduction!
• Adobe Reader
• Age of Conquest Lite
• Aldiko
• Android System Info
• Angry Birds
• ASTRO
• aTrackDog
• Barcode Scanner
• Bonsai Blast
• CardioTrainer
• Chess Free
• Compass
• Dolphin Browser HD
• Endomondo
• Folder Organizer
• GOdroid
• Gomoku
• Google Pinyin
• Google Translate
• Hanping CE
• Jewels
• Korean for Smart Keyboard PRO
• Labyrinth Lite
• My Tracks
• Proximity
• Replica Island
• Ringdroid
• Screenshot Demo
  (This is demo from the Android Screenshot Library)
• SL4A (Scripting Layer for Android, SL4A is designed for developers.)
• Slicey
• SwiFTP (FTP server for Android, can download apk from the project website)
• Terminal Emulator
• VirtualTENHO-G
• Wifi Analyzer
• 한글 접촉식 키보드

Ars takes a close look at the technology underlying Google's Linux-based Android platform. From the platform fundamentals to the development experience, details inside.
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As Google originally promised, things improved dramatically after the launch of the G1. The source code for the entire platform is now open, and Google has published extensive documentation that describes how independent developers can contribute to the project. Those changes in the development process make Android a truly open and participatory project. Patches from external contributors have already been accepted, and Google is also working closely with upstream projects like Harmony.

After the source code was opened, there was still one critical weak spot: the T-Mobile G1, Android's flagship handset, is a closed device that uses code signing to restrict changes to the platform. There is no way to flash the G1 with modified images, which means that platform hackers have no practical way to test their changes on physical hardware. This limitation was an immense disappointment, and it undermined a lot of the value of having an open mobile platform. To address this deficiency, Google launched its own unlocked developer model of the G1 handset. The hackable Google handset, which is available to anyone who registers with the Android App Store, is a fully open device that can be flashed and modified.

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The next major version of Android delivers some important features that will help make the platform more appealing to mobile carriers and hardware makers. One of the most important changes is the new on-screen keyboard, which has opened the door for using Android on a whole new class of devices. There are already several products under development that will take advantage of this feature, including an upcoming media tablet from Archos, a WiFi Skype tablet from GiiNii, and the HTC Magic, which is coming to Vodafone.

Another significant addition is support for the x86 architecture, which could make it possible to bring Android to some netbook devices and Atom-based MIDs.

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Google had better act fast to capitalize on Android's momentum, because its window of opportunity is closing quickly. Microsoft is moving to get its improved version of Windows Mobile ready to ship, some of the LiMo-compatible smartphone platforms such as ALP are getting closer to hitting the market, and Symbian will be royalty-free soon. Google has a chance to be a major player in the mobile market. The company will need to mature Android rapidly to stay competitive in the growing smartphone ecosystem.

Space may be the final frontier, but scientists who recently discovered a hidden forest in Mozambique show the uncharted can still be under our noses. BirdLife were part of a team of scientists who used Google Earth to identify a remote patch of pristine forest. An expedition to the site discovered new species of butterfly and snake, along with seven Globally Threatened birds.

The team were browsing Google Earth – freely available software providing global satellite photography – to search for potential wildlife hotspots. A nearby road provided the first glimpses of a wooded mountain topped by bare rock. However, only by using Google Earth could the scientists observe the extent of woodland on the other side of the peak. This was later discovered to be the locally known, but unmapped, Mount Mabu.

After years of rumors of a Google phone, the search giant a week ago finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android.

On Monday, Google released the software developer kit, or SDK, for Android and announced that it would set aside $10 million to give out as prizes to developers who create programs for the new platform. (Android Developer Challenge)

Android is based on the work of Andy Rubin and several other founders of Danger. Google acquired their newer venture, Android, in 2005.

Q: What does Android look like?

We've been building it as a mobile mashup platform. That is a new concept for cell phones. So the developer can now stand on the system platform and take advantage of other developers' work for the first time. So, that just creates more flexibility for the developers, less work, faster turnaround, rapid prototyping, and all that stuff, and we're really, really excited about that concept.

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The platform itself has the ability to be targeted toward all sorts of different screen sizes and input mechanisms--touch devices, trackballs, five-way keypads, portrait displays, landscapes, big displays, small displays, QWERTY keyboards, non-QWERTY keyboards. When the developer writes an app, and that app is on portrait display, the platform also will run that same app on a landscape display.

This platform has been contemplated in different devices, from car navigation systems to set-top boxes to laptop computers and, of course, cell phones.

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Q: Which is more important to you: the richness of the platform or the affordability of phones the platform runs on?

Rubin: I would say both are equally important, and that is the reason we made this an open-source project. By having a free and open platform, we're reducing the cost of software, which, in turn, reduces the cost of the cell phone. When we built the platform, we didn't go for the really expensive $600 smartphones. We went for the mid-market.

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Related: Wired’s Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Since Sky in Google Earth debuted two weeks ago to let the public explore the heavens from their computers, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have jumped in to populate Google's sky with the most recently discovered heavenly objects.

This week, Google posted on its Web site another layer of information users can add to their personal sky: real-time updates on new objects that flash in the heavens.

"Right out of the gate, Google Sky has become a powerful tool for the public and in the classroom," said Bloom, an assistant professor of astronomy who employed Sky in his opening lecture last week to an introductory astronomy class at UC Berkeley. "And if it works well and gets more and more of these transient events into the system, we as researchers will be using it."

Bloom and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory build the "cyber"-infrastructure, called VOEventNet, that allows satellites and telescopes to send astronomers, and Google, real-time information on these newly discovered transients in the sky. VOEvent is an important backbone for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which should detect thousands of interesting transients every night. The LSST is a proposed ground-based 8.4-meter telescope that will image faint astronomical objects across the entire sky. (Targeted for completion by 2017)

"LSST answers the question, How do you do 21st century astronomy?" Bloom said. "The cutting edge won't be people going to telescopes and taking data, but terabytes and terabytes of data coming in every day, and astronomers sifting though the data for new discoveries."

VOEventNet, which allows these disparate data to be fed to Sky, was developed with funding from the National Science Foundation as a way to automate astronomy so that new observations are relayed within seconds or minutes to robotic telescopes that can quickly and automatically swivel to observe them.

Bloom expects more astronomers to take advantage of the ease of adding mash-ups to Sky in Google Earth in order to layer interesting astronomical objects over the viewing area and create personalized tours of the cosmos.

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Why do you have to control your own fiber to connect the data centers?

One of the neat things about the bubble is that people built all of this fiber that is now essentially free. What's funny about our fiber leasing and purchasing is that people are always assuming that we have some master plan involving telecommunications when, in fact, if you think about it as just solving the supercomputer problem, we just want the thing to be faster.

Now, we can throw away people's speculation about what purposes does Google has in acquiring so many fibers! :)