I'm about to make the switch over to Android OS for my mobile phone. I'm thinking my first Android phone might be something like a Samsung Galaxy S or an HTC Desire HD, or I might wait for one of the new Android tablets coming out later this year (like the Samsung 7" tablet on Android).
Was thinking about installing the Android SDK as well.
I've been hacking more into Android lately and running basic Linux commands.
Very cool to have a mobile running a type of Linux OS.
I'm surprised more people here are not interested in Android; after all, it is definitely a Unix-like OS. It's a special version of Linux running Java-type apps.
The Android Eclipse plugin aids in development in such a way that the developer only needs to focus on writing code and need not know how the build and packaging of the .apk are done. These are done by the SDK tools. So the SDK is pretty much needed.
I will be developing using the Android Eclipse plugin with Android SDK 1.5.
Users in the company are raving about Android, especially considering what they were switching away from. We have developers in Asia and most people we recruit in the Asian region have some Android experience. This OS is going to make it big.
As far as I read it's the leading OS in mobile devices on the US market, outpacing both RIM and Apple. I have a colleague around who's writing a simple game for start, and he's already amazed by the power he has.