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Android update

June 2010

David Melgar david@broadreachsoftware.com

Android application development

Agenda

• Google I/O
• Froyo
• Future
• Other
• Device updates

Google I/O

• Google’s developer conference May 2010, San

Francisco

• Android adoption
• Froyo
• Google TV
• New advertising formats
• Demos showing collaboration with other
• companies. Sony, Adobe, Logitech, Intel, Spring/

VMWare

Apple Google relationship

• No doubt what they think of

each other

• Best quote from Google I/O,

Vic Gundotra “If Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future, a future where one man,

• ne company,
• ne device,
• ne carrier would be our
• nly choice.

Thats a future we don’t want”

Android acceptance

• 60 devices currently

available, 21 manufacturers, 48 countries, 59 carriers

• Now activating

100,000 devices PER DAY

Froyo Android 2.2

• Status: Release ‘soon’.
• Developer release on Nexus One. Ported to rooted EVO, iPhone.
• Lots of new features. Kitchen sink.
• USB & wireless hotspot tethering
• Bluetooth voice dialing
• Adobe Flash

Performance

• Java benefits
• Architecture independence
• Algorithmic screen layout. Provides screen

resolution and aspect ratio independence.

• Downside: Performance
• JIT added in Froyo. 2-5x performance boost!
• Updated browser. 2-3x Javascript

performance improvement. Laps iPad

Enterprise features

• 20 new features
• exchange support
• auto discovery
• security policies
• global address book integration
• device admin apis

New SDK features

• Application data backup API. Lets you

backup data to Google. Not just apps.

• Cloud to device messaging API.

Message can trigger an intent on device.

• Don’t know how they’ve handled

security issues.

Beyond Froyo

• HTML5 new apis. Access to

accelerometer, speech, magnetometer, camera.

• Speech intention. Make it perform

some action on the phone.

• Open browser. Inclusive rather than
• exclusive. Adobe flash support.

Android Marketplace

• Quicksearch extended to support

searching within app data. Marketplace.

• Apps can reside on SD card. Enabled in

a secure way and can be transparent

• Options for update all, automatic update
• Crash reporting. Shows up in developer

view, includes stack trace.

Android Marketplace after Froyo

• Ability to access via browser
• Can initiate remote install over the air

from a browser.

• Music. Can buy music and send to

device from browser. (iTunes competitor)

• Stream your non-DRMed music to your

Android device. iTunes, etc.

Advertising

• More advertising formats.
• Analytics. Useful tools.
• Adsense for Mobile Apps (ADMA)
• Available now. Not limited to Froyo.
• Not restricted to Google advertising

(unlike Apple). google.com/mobileads

Google TV

• Fall 2010
• Can integrate browser, email, DVR, TV.
• Runs Android apps (Marketplace not

available until 2011)

• Search, integrated with TV listings
• Can be set top box or within TV, etc.
• Demoed using Intel’s Atom. Non-ARM.

Device updates

Current devices

• Nexus One: Google gave up. Pulled plug on

Verizon, Sprint version. Sold for AT&T without subsidy (despite AT&T). T-Mobile from Google website only.

• HTC Incredible. Verizon. 1GHZ. Supply

constrained.

• HTC EVO. Sprint. Runaway success. New top
• phone. First 4G phone. 4.3” screen, front

facing camera, 720p video recording and HDMI video out. $10/mo premium

Upcoming devices

• Phones
• Pads: Confirmed working with Verizon
• TVs
• Set top boxes
• Cars, Roewe 350, Ford, GM
• Appliances. Pretty much anything

Motorola Droid X

• Verizon.
• 4.3” screen. Biggest

phone yet. Too big?

• 8mp. 720p in/out
• 1ghz
• Announce June 23rd
• Release July 15th

Motorola Droid 2

• Physical keyboard
• Fewer details
• 1ghz

Samsung Galaxy S

• T-Mobile (Vibrant) ,

AT&T (Captivate), Verizon (Fascinate)

• 4.3”
• Front facing camera

(not in US versions)

• 720p in/out
• July 21st rumor

Upcoming phones

• HTC Scorpion: Froyo 2.2, 1.5ghz.

Rumored 4G, either Sprint or early LTE (Verizon) device.

iPhone 4

• 600k presales 1st day
• Highest res display,
• 960x640. Too high?
• 720p in/out
• Front facing camera
• Reception problem due

to external antenna

iOS4

• Many new iPhone features already present in Android
• Multitasking
• iAd: return back to app where you left off
• Folders. iPhone limited to small number of apps
• Video chat
• iPhone advantage
• Battery life
• Larger battery
• Controlled multitasking

Future

• Next Android release focusing on UI
• Open messy platform with many players

and potential inconsistency vs. closed walled garden single company.

• Vic’s closing remarks

“Thank you for supporting Android, Thank you for voting on the side of

• penness and choice.”