Yesterday Google Inc., following the announcement of the constitution of the Open Handset Alliance, finally released the official SDK for developing next-generation mobile applications: Andorid!It's truly amazing and thrilling for a bunch of different reasons. Android is based on Linux 2.6, comes with a set of C/C++ libraries mainly for OpenGL implementation, SQLite data-store and so on, but the most exciting thing I founded out is that the Android runtime is fully Java-based. Actually is an ad-hoc Java version that is neither a JSE nor a JME implementation. This is one of the most debated point, but this is not the reason behind this post. So why am I posting?
Well, along with unveiling Android, Google has officially launched a competition aimed at awarding those visionary-developers that will create new amazing applications for the Android runtime. This competition is not opened to every one in the globe, here you can find a list of not admitted countries, and amongst those countries... there is Italy!
Between the words, I'm not complaining about Google Inc., I'm complaining about my country. Obviously there are legal restrictions that prevented Google from opening this challenge to italians, that's why I my country's fault.
That's really sad, one more time there is a chance to actively take part into something dramatically important and once again there are men and women doomed to miss it.
Luckily we can still develop with Android, 'though we are not eligible for the challenge we can still learn this new SDK and envision new applications.
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