Google Android: With or versus Java?

Filed in archive Application Development on November 13, 2007

Google is out with its programming tools for its Android mobile-phone alliance for download which would give developers an opportunity to work on CODING for phones to be sold in 2008. It comes along with Google born Dalvik virtual machine for running Java programs and offers support for a number of media and image file formats.

Though it has brought Java into picture but it seems Google is on its own looking ahead to improve the performance of the software used in Open Handset Alliance phones and programmers would probably come across a new version of Java with tempting code contest worth a whopping $10 million thrown in.

With Google developing its own JVM technology called Dalvik it means Java programs would run faster on constrained hardware of cell phones but it's a departure from that fact that it is not a part of the JCP which was established by Sun for overseeing latest Java features development.




Mike Cleron who is a Google senior staff engineer had to say something on this:

We wanted the platform to be open in a lot of different ways. The idea is that anybody can come along and replace the pieces of the Android experience on a very fine-grained level. The existing APIs didn't really allow the level of openness we were hoping to achieve in Android.

Even though they are using Java but not using some well known Java framework could create some problems and at the end of the day there would be another standard to support among the crowd. I was just wondering whether it would brew some more trouble in the world of Java or not.

Thnx Steve