{"id":893,"date":"2008-09-16T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/893-actual-android-device-spotted-at-google-developer-day-london.html"},"modified":"2008-09-16T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T09:54:09","slug":"actual-android-device-spotted-at-google-developer-day-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/893-actual-android-device-spotted-at-google-developer-day-london.html","title":{"rendered":"Actual Android device spotted at Google Developer Day London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the keynote at Google Developer Day London, Android evangelist Mike Jennings gave us what he says is the first showing of an actual device &#8211; prototype, of course &#8211; in Europe. I took a few blurry pics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/android.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps inevitably, it seems reminiscent of Apple&#8217;s iPhone. It even has an accelerometer so you can code it to respond to tilts and turns.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/android2.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>The web browser is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webkit.org\" target=\"_blank\">WebKit<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<p> We were shown a spinning cube created in Java using an OpenGL library. The Android SDK is based on JDK 1.5.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that was mentions is Gears for Mobile. Now that Gears has a geolocation API it will be particularly useful in this context.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c39c4b67-a436-4271-b281-957e6ece3b9d\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/android\" rel=\"tag\">android<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/java\" rel=\"tag\">java<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/iphone\" rel=\"tag\">iphone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/webkit\" rel=\"tag\">webkit<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the keynote at Google Developer Day London, Android evangelist Mike Jennings gave us what he says is the first showing of an actual device &#8211; prototype, of course &#8211; in Europe. I took a few blurry pics. Perhaps inevitably, it seems reminiscent of Apple&#8217;s iPhone. It even has an accelerometer so you can code &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/893-actual-android-device-spotted-at-google-developer-day-london.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Actual Android device spotted at Google Developer Day London<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,36,44,47,49,56,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-google","category-internet","category-iphone","category-java","category-mobile","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}