Android Challenge Winners

The proposed Google-led Android faces a difficult situation with the developers, who are angry about the apparent favoritism being shown to some developers. This is the latest twist in the road which becomes a difficult birth .

Network World reports that developers have not received an update from the software developers kit buggy (SDK) used to create applications for four months. The extracted part as an engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru Android which says that the team shares Android community frustration of. Global said that the post - which links the story - gives no indication when the new SDK will be available.

Network World piece actually was wrong, through no fault of the writer. Some developers are indeed working with an updated SDK - the one that was published in secret. Ars Technica says that Android is an update of the SDK available for the winners of the Android Developer Challenge by virtue a non-disclosure agreement.

The apparent favoritism was revealed, the story goes, when a Google employee accidentally sent a note about the Android SDK on a public mailing list. The piece says that the Android Developer Challenge Round two participants recognize obtain the SDK updated, but will not comment further because of the non-disclosure agreement.

Eric Zeman InformationWeek points the obvious injustice of this situation. It seems worse because it happens in the context of a proposed open source development. Open source is based on egalitarianism and impartiality. Although it would be a problem in any environment, it will probably remain the heart of open source developers a little more.

OStatic remember that Google has done nothing illegal. The real danger is the perception developers - especially the good ones - have a number of choices that the world of smartphones and advanced devices opens. It is, Mike Gunderloy, all opening on:

"Android has a chance of ending up on the more open end of the spectrum - but only if they attend the developer community and demonstrate a commitment to leveling the playing field for everybody."

The perception - the mind, as political pundits call this season the way a message is perceived by those who are watching - is terrible for Google and others who ran Android. They should do something other than the professional politicians talk about "go to the message by issuing a mea culpa or two. This should be done before further damage is done to their relationship with developers.