Google Android Blog

Well, it’s just the beginning of 2008 and Sun Microsystems is pretty much unsure of what to do about the new Android platform, which in all likelihood could come to rival Sun’s own Java. It could, though this is just some speculation, split Java in half in a way. You see, Google Android apps are written in Java, and also Eclipse is used in the new platform. So, what is Sun’s official position on all of this? They are basically stating they are neutral about it because there just is not enough information out there. In the meantime they will continue development on their own platforms, one for microcontrollers and the other for other devices. Beyond mobile phones Sun has shown off the Sun-SPOT project and the Squawk project, both being used in robotics currently. In any event, Google Android will likely be an amalgam of many different contributors and parts of many open source projects

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