As promised, Google released the Android SDK for gPhone-like devices today. Programmers can use it to immediately begin development of native programs that will run on Open Handset Alliance hardware.

As odd rumors go, RIM engineering the BlackBerry PlayBook so that it can run Android apps sounds pretty far fetched, but that's today's mystery. According to "multiple trusted sources" speaking to BGR ...

As a Linux Journal reader, you've probably stumbled across Google Android here and there. You've probably read an introductory article or maybe you even downloaded an ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history lesson” ...

Which is a very round about way of saying ‘find out about things that sound important but about which I have no clue’! First up is the “Dalvik virtual machine”, the open-source software originally ...