July 3rd, 2009
Android set to launch in Japan, 1.5 deployment "nearly complete"
The first Android-powered phone will launch in Japan on July 10th. New Japanese customers will have immediate access to free applications in the Android Market, with paid apps following sometime later. That’s according to a notice sent from Google’s Eric Chu to Android app developers late Wednesday. Bulgaria and Romania are on the target list after Japan, first with phones and free apps and then with paid apps.
In other news, Google says that the over the air roll-out of Android 1.5 (Cupcake) is “nearly complete”. And of course, all new phones come with 1.5 already installed. That means that Android developers can take advantage of 1.5 features such as Home screen app widgets without worrying about trying to support older versions.
(And in other, other news, I just put the finishing touches on an update of Hello, Android that features a new appendix on how to write app widgets in Cupcake. The update will be free to all owners of the PDF, mobi, or epub versions, and cheap for owners of the dead tree version.)
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Ed Burnette is a professional developer and author of several articles and books about computing including Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform, 2nd Edition. For disclosure of Ed's industry affiliations, click here or to view his full profile click here.
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