The Google Android open-source website is now open, less than a year after announcing the android operating system. If you go to the site you will see that it includes of course the Android source code, project list, how to contribute, feature descriptions and information guide as to who can have what role in a

Yesterday was a big day in the world of Google Android. The Android Open Source Project launched, meaning that source codes are now officially available to anyone (you, me, my mom, or your dog) at source.android.com. I can only imagine the froth and drool coming from many a developers’ mouth at the prospect of developing

Open source is great, right? That should make Google’s open source Android OS great, too. Funambol’s Fabrizio Capobianco sure seems to think so. In a recent blog post, he shares his personal experience regarding a feature on the Android-Powered T-Mobile G1 that was fixed by the Open Source community instead of waiting for Google, HTC, or T-Mobile

Photostream for Android The guys over at the Android Developers Blog have posted a new open source sample application for would-be Android developers to examine. Called Photostream, the application is basically a client for viewing pictures from the Flickr.com photo site. The sample application source code demonstrates some basic programming methods for adding shortcuts to an

Today Google has officially available, for free, released the Android Open Source Project. There has been a lot of talk about Android over the past few month.  T-Mobile is the first cell phone provider to launch an Android Powered cell phone. According to Google, "Android is not a single piece of hardware; it's a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on a...

Today Google released its Android OS as open source, meaning that the public now has access to the source code used to build the phones. Kyocera also announced today that it will be building its own Android phone. Read the full story here.

Google today released the open-source code which powers its Android mobile operating system. The open-source code comes a day before the launch of the Android-based T-Mobile G1, Google's challenge to the Apple iPhone. The G1 offers many of the features of the iPhone and Research in Motion's popular BlackBerry including a touch screen similar to that of the iPhone, a trackball for navigat...

Apple announced it a long time ago, Android would be open source software. Now, Google finally opened up the source for every handset vendor to play around with. With the source right open, handset...

Google said today that it has released the code behind the Android operating system as open source, a day before the Android-based T-Mobile G1 phone is scheduled to go on sale. Google released the complete Android mobile operating system stack under the open-source Apache license, freeing up carriers, OEMs and ambitious application development experts

Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog .