As soon as Android and
the Open Handset Alliance was out in the wild, we were chomping at the bit to talk with some
of the people behind the platform to discuss the developer-related information.
We were lucky enough to get some
time from Dianne Hackborn and Jason Parks, who have been doing this work for a long time. They
used to be at Be, and PalmSource, and you will hear how that experience has come through to
Android. In fact, you will see how the Android team has engineers from many other platforms
(Linux, Danger, and Windows Mobile).
Dick Wall himself is an advocate
on Android, and you can hear how excited he is to talk about this!
What
will you learn on this podcast?
Some history behind the
project
The high level architecture of Android. For example, how Linux
processes handle the VM and manage security (the VM doesn't handle
it)
Details on the Dalvik VM and how it is optimized for small
devices
The architecture: From Intents to Views to Permissions and
more
How XML is slow, but the tools convert the XML to a nicer format for
you
The tooling and steps for building an application on
Android
How so many objects have a URL, and how the environment is like a
mini-SOA (Services across processes instead of across the
network)
Thoughts on how you program for small devices, and things to
watch out for if you move from the desktop
The control, or lack of control
that you have over the application lifecycle
"Everything you do drains the
battery"
The thread story: they exist, you don't have to deal with them if
you don't want too, and the UI
