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The Android Code Challenge (ADC) is an idea of Google to encourage the community to build cool applications for the Android Platform by rewarding the 50 most promising applications submitted. Of course the Android Developers Challenge, with its overall 10 Million Dollars of prize money, was attracting even more software-developers to create a bunch of really useful applications. On the other side many voices said, that this was no good choice from Google, because it would lead to less code-sharing,...

“Android does not differentiate between the phone's core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone's capabilities providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services. With devices built on the Android Platform, users will be able to fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the phone's home screen, the style of the dialer, or any of the applications. They can even instruct their phones to use their favorite...

Let’s take a look at what the OHA emphasizes on its Android Platform: Openness “Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open. For example, an application could call upon any of the phone's core functionality such as making calls, sending text messages, or using the camera, allowing developers to create richer and more cohesive experiences for users.” This...

What is Android – a GPhone? The weeks and months before Google released the Android SDK there had been a lot of rumors about a so called GPhone. It was said to be a mobile device manufactured by Google providing free communication by showing context-sensitive advertisements to the user on the device itself.   But on November 5th 2007 Andy Rubin2 announced:  “[The] Android [Platform] – is more significant and ambitious than a single phone.”  Google within the Open...