MOTODEV Blog

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I am excited to announce our new Android portal on MOTODEV. It’s chock-full of resources to help you design, develop and deliver a killer mobile app for Android including:

• a weekly podcast series with Android developers, service providers and experts in the community – don’t miss our live podcast next week from Flurry, Inc. headquarters in San Francisco right after the Google I/O Conference
  
• blog posts all about app development and distribution
  
• a Silicon Valley Android MeetUp hosted by Motorola in Sunnyvale, CA on June 16th
  
• tips and tricks for installing and configuring the Android SDK and navigating the wealth of Google documentation on Android
  
• two dozen Fast Track partners focused on accelerating your path to market with Android
  
• and much more to come...
  
  

Check out the below video we shot this week of my Motorola colleague, Dino Brusco, Sr. Director of Developer Platforms & Services, explaining why we chose Android to power our next-generation of smart phone devices. And if you have any feedback post a comment here or ping @motodev on Twitter.







Tracy Pullman
Sr. Manager, Developer Programs

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im impressed in Motorola for doing alot of ideas and other great things for Android , ill support you guys!

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Apart from pleasure to see Java/Linux stack getting more and more support all over the mobile world,

there's one question lurking in the back of one's mind: why Moto made so many twists during last 9 years?

Message Edited by tpullman on 05-28-2009 11:38 AM

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Thanks, George, for your comment.  There have been technologies that we've seen come and go and that is the nature of the technology industry.  Motorola is committed to Android and we encourage you to stay tuned to this blog and to developer.motorola.com for the latest info. 

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Will Moto be abandoning WinMo and just heading on with Android?  Will developers be forced to develope separate applications for each model of phone? (like the cursed winmo?) OR can they do like iPhone developers and develop ONE application and beable to have any Android customer install it no matter what device?

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Thank you very much' it's great.

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Great questions, @TheAgentx. Motorola will continue to develop WinMo products in the mid-to-high tier while creating next-gen products for Android. Android allows developers to write applications that work across the wide range of handsets running Android.  If you stick to the published APIs and don't make assumptions about the hardware (such as all devices having a hard keyboard or the same display size), you should be fine.  Check out developer.android.com for more from Google on this topic.
 
Google does publish a number of best practices for supporting multiple devices (even ones that don't exist yet) including these links:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/future-proofing-your-apps.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/backward-compatibility-for-android.html

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Hi,

It will be interesting to see how you Moto guys will differentiate from the other Android offerrings. Android provides a lot of potential for handset vendors, car makers, other embedded and/or connected devices etc. Not all Android products will be phones.

I do wish you luck to succeed in this tank of smaller and larger sharks :-)

cheers from Germany

Juergen 

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Thanks, Jürgen from Germany

We just got some nice press last week on our Android efforts...

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/06/motorola-android-mobile-technology-wireless-motorola.html

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Great video

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I liked it alot, loved the video

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I love my RAZR phone, I have had a V3 then now I have a V8

can Moto carry on with the clamshell form facter with a Android OS in the next model?

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That's great news. We at motorola-android.com are very excited about the new phones!