I went and it was a very interesting intro for me. I worked with embedded systems in the mid 90's, J2ME in the early 00s', and saw some interesting things in the demos (including an Android device which looks pretty much ready for market).
I raised some ideas about using code signing to create "app shops" whereby anyone can create a cryptographic signature to say they believe an application is trustworthy which will lend the weight of their reputation to an application. This means that carriers could sign applications which they're happy for their customers to use, hardware vendors can sign applications they're happy to run on their hardware, and the end user can run any app they want but they're presented with some warnings if it has not been signed by a "trusted" source. Users can control who is on their trusted source list which puts them in the same position that they are when they purchase anything else, they can make a decision based on brand name associated with the vendor (e.g. some people will be more willing to buy a cheap product if it is sold by Wal-Mart than if it is sold by Ma & Pas' shack of software). Trust signatures would not be exclusive, the manifest could support multiple signatures so that a single manifest can provide signatures from several trusted sources and the phone can check for a trusted source and if none has been found it can show who has signed the app as trusted. I'm going to flesh this out in my blog a bit, but hopefully it will result in something useful. Al. On Sep 12, 9:04 am, whitemice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone going to this > Event?http://code.google.com/intl/en_uk/events/developerday/2008/home.html > > I was planning on doing the Android track, but I just received the > “event is full” email and am disappointed as I had a few questions I > wanted to ask. > Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
