The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to:
* Handle intents
* Start activities
* Make phone calls
* Send text messages
* Scan bar codes
* Poll location and sensor data
* Use text-to-speech
* And more
Until Chrome came along, Google's Master Mobile Plan didn't quite add up. Now it does. Chrome -- Google's new superbrowser -- is cream on the top of a new mobile software stack. Let's call it GACL, for Gears, Android and Chrome on Linux. Gears is a way to run Web apps on desktops and store data locally as well as in the cloud. Android is a development framework for Linux-based mobile devices. Chrome is a browser, but not just for pages. Chrome also runs apps. In that respect, it's more than the UI-inside-a-window that all browsers have become. It's essentially an operating system.
Die letzte, als "M5" bezeichnete Version des Smartphone-Betriebssystems Android, das auf Initiative von Google von einer Allianz aus Telekomkonzernen, Handyproduzenten und Software-Firmen entwickelt wird, erschien Anfang März. Jetzt stellt Google das Android-SDK 0.9 vor. Gleichzeitig kündigt die Firma an, dass der Quellcode sowie die ersten Geräte mit Android 1.0 im letzten Quartal dieses Jahres herauskommen sollen.