Shay Ohayon wrote:
There is also a talk given by Gilad Ben-Yoseff (anyone know if the
slides of the presentation are available somewhere?) and the
documentation for development is pretty good.
Slides and video of the lecture (thanbks to Yael Vaya and Crictor) are here:
http://tuxology.net/lectures/google-android-open-source-phone-stack/
Hebrew support is fine, you just install the fonts and its there
(gilad also has a post about this) and someone wrote an application
called "hebkeys" that i havent tested but gives you a virtual
keyboard on screen for hebrew typing.
The fonts are on my blog http://firstpost.org/.
Hebkeys, by Hezi Cohen, is here: http://code.snippets.co.il/hebkey
and the latest pre-release version also supports the hardware keyboard
of the G1.
This makes me look into direction of Android G1. It is too young to
have elaborated applications support, but it already has
Actually, the application support for Android is remarkably good for
something which is only commercially available for 6 months. For
example, I just spotted today a Home screen widget that displays Haaretz
news headlines (in Hebrew) in the Android application market today...
My bottom line would be: if X is openess of the phone stack and Y is
it's quality, then Android based phones have the highest X*Y ratio I know...
Gilad
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