Life with Android

I was finally able to explore the Android development environment. The first thing I noted is the easy SDK installation process, you only have to unzip a file and to set an environment variable. If you want to use Eclipse as development environment, you need to download a plugin from Google site. A wonderful thing is the porting of the SDK under different Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS and Windows.
The SDK comes with a good emulator included but sometimes, at least in Linux environment, it loses the synchronism with Eclipse in debug phase.
Anyway the tools used under the hood are command line commands, adb in this case, that reside in SDK tools directory, and in a hurry we can kill its process so Eclipse can restart it in its next debug session. The same SDK seems to be the first step toward a more complete system and various features are reporting not working in the project mailing list. All things considered Android is a very good first step, documentation is complete and it covers each toolkit area, but we can expect a good growth. As a pilot project I wrote a little program to read planet.kde.org
feeds, one of my favorite sites. I explored some Android technologies, background services, sqlite database, custom views, and integrated browser, and I enjoyed the system very much, even though I didn't explore multimedia features. The project has been published on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/planetandroid/ address. The license is obviously GPL.