Another in the now-continuing X is a piece-of-shit series...
I have been tinkering with Android SDK lately, and boy is this a way better experience compared to the JavaME slagheap!
Here is the short list that you should care about:
- There are actual graphically-appealing widgets to use, and actual layouts to place them in.
- Java is treated as a first-class citizen within the device, and not like an afterthought.
- Security decisions are controlled by...drumroll please...You, The User, and not by forking over your dosh to VeriSign for a certificate just so I can access GPS, contacts, pretty much everything, without pestering the shit out of you with prompts!
- Real multi-process service-based architecture under the hood!
- Intent-based invocation allows you to trigger pretty much any other entity in the system, in a generic way!
- Did I mention you get lots of slick-looking UI widgets to play with, and you can build UIs declaratively?
I for one am going to shove the Wireless Tookit right up Sun's ass.....
Don't hold anything back, ok?
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