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Over at the Android developers blog there is a new announcement detailing an upgrade to the Native Development Kit for Android. This is big news for Android developers and the third release of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is now available for download from the Android developer site. According to the official developers blog, [...]

One week after the launch of the Nexus One, Google has released the Android 2.1 SDK to developers. The SDK is considered a minor update to Android and will roll out to existing handsets starting in January. Unlike previous SDKs which were released before a phone was launched, the Android 2.1 SDK was released after [...]

The Google Software-Development-Kit (SDK) has just been updated to the latest version 2.0.1 and the knock on effect of this includes the roll out of Android 2.0.1 to Android 2.0 phones. As you will probably know, the Motorola Droid is the only Android 2.0 phone at the moment. The update does not bring anything massive [...]

Earlier this evening Google released the SDK for Android 1.6, what most people like to call the Donut release.  Core low level features that Donut brings to the platform include support for CDMA devices and differing screen resolutions – including QVGA (as on the HTC Tattoo) and high-res WVGA displays.
From a user perspective, the new [...]

Yesterday Google released an early look at the Android OS 1.5 software developer kit, which includes developer support for all of the new Cupcake features that we are going to see in devices like the HTC Magic from Vodafone.
The new SDK also gives developers the ability to write programs for both the 1.1 release and [...]

Yuhua, previously known as Yuhuatel, are a Chinese mobile ODM (original design maker) that have recently demonstrated a hardware reference design for use with the Android OS. The company already offer a few phones that run Java and Linux, such as the CPhone. Indeed, the General Mobile DSTL1 was based on a design by Yuhua. [...]

Dan Morrill at the Android Developers Blog has announced that the 1.1 firmware release of the Android SDK is now available.  The new 1.1 firmware, which is seen in T-Mobile’s RC33 update, is compatible with all existing devices, but also includes new API functionality for future applications.
The SDK comes complete with a 1.1 version of [...]

The guys at NullWire have put together a nice and neat way to get the Cupcake branch of Android running on your personal copy of the Android Emulator.  But before you can do that, you need to download and install the Android SDK.
[Step 1] Download the SDK from here and install it.  Once you have [...]

Jeffrey Sharkey was bored.  Jeffrey Sharkey is also a developer that needed a change of scenery.  As such, he decided to peel the skin off of T-Mobile’s flash based G1 emulator and apply it to the Android smartphone emulator that comes as part of the SDK.
The result?  An updated look to the emulator that even [...]

Yesterday Dan Morrill over at the Android Developer Blog announced the availability of the first release of the Android 1.0 SDK.  This means that any applications developed using the new SDK’s APIs should remain usable on Android phones for quite some time with no fear of SDK feature creep breaking a developer’s code.
You can download [...]