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On Jul 4, 6:53 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Digest:<p>
> Android is going to completely change mobile computing. It is based on
> activities interacting, rather than on stand-alone applications. But
> in order for our applications to work together, we also have to work
> together. In order to facilitate our Components working together
> better I'm founding the Android Standards Workgroup. Anyone interested
> should join the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/
> androidstandards">AndroidStandards</a> google group or email me at <a
> href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> for more
> information.<p>
> Full:<P>
> As I'm sure you all know, Android is going to completely change
> mobile computing. Because the OHA is backing up Android, we can
> finally write an application once and without any extra work it'll run
> on phones made by different manufacturers, phones on different service
> providers, phones with different processor types, phones with
> completely different hardware capabilities. Android is smashing down
> walls.<p>
> Android is smashing down more than just one type of wall. It's moving
> us from this world where applications were held in these containers
> called windows that only rarely talked to each other, to this world
> where applications are chunked into small portions called Activities
> that do nothing but talk to each other. Here's an example of what's
> now possible because of Android.<p>
> Say you want to show a picture to your friends. There are several
> ways this can be done, but let's say you just open up a special
> activity made for selecting a pictures. This Activity asks the system
> for a content provider that can give it a list of all the pictures on
> the phone. After the list is obtained the activity shows it to the
> user who selects the correct photo. Then the activity starts a VIEW
> intent that opens up another activity made just for viewing photos.
> This is a very common day example, and allready we've involved three
> components. I want to point out that when these different components
> were written, their respective programmers had never met. This is
> what's possible with Android. Instead of seeing a phone full of
> different applications, the user sees a phone full of many functions,
> all of which can be mixed and matched as much as you want.<p>
> But there's a catch. In order for our applications to work together,
> we have to work together. Let me illustrate what I mean. In the
> previous example, a few URIs were passed around behind the scenes,
> mainly <i>content://media/pictues</i> which stands for the list of
> pictures on the device. What if the content provider had used
> <i>content://media/pictures</i> but the viewer activity had been
> written to use <i>content://media/images</i>, or even <i>content://
> media/photos</i>? Complete Incompatibility. In this case you would
> have all these wonderful components, that couldn't communicate at all.
> On their own these components are a little useless.<p>
> Besides URI naming there are a few other issues stopping our
> activities from co-operating, and we need standards to be decided to
> solve these issues. In order to create these standards, I'm hereby
> founding the Android Standards Workgroup. This group will, among other
> things, decide on naming conventions for URIs we should all follow,
> decide on a package manager all components should write meta-data for,
> decide on how components will be hosted for download to the device. I
> want to point out that writing words is not the only thing this group
> will do. If we decide as a community that a decent package manager
> doesn't exist, this work-group will write one. Because for this to be
> successful we all have to participate, this group is open for anybody
> to join. Let's band together and turn Android into something truly
> amazing.<p>
> If you are interested, please join the <a href="http://
> groups.google.com/group/androidstandards">AndroidStandards</a> google
> group. For more information please e-mail me, <a
> href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>
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