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Google IO 2009 was a very Android centric developer conference with day long Android sessions and access to Android engineers.

I was lucky to be invited to cover Google IO for GoogleAndBlog as I flew into San Francisco Wednesday May 27th and took a cab directly to the Moscone West Center.

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I am leaving this morning from San Diego to San Francisco to cover the Android sessions of Google IO – Google’s once a year Developer Conference.

The first Google IO was last year but this is the first since an Android device has been released and as such is very Android focused.
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Google Android Engineer echos what I have been feeling for quite a while as he declares that Google itself is a major bottleneck when it comes to Android being an Open-Source project.

This has been evidenced as of late where Google bends to its relationship with T-Mobile by block tethering apps for US T-Mobile customers via the Android Market.
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Dan Morrill, a Google Developer Advocate for Android, stated this week he was surprised by the rise of demand for skins and the theme “phenomenon” for Android.

Dan stated in the Android Discuss Google Group that Google engineers have noticed this trend in the desire of users to skin their Android phone and will be adding this as a theme category in The Android Market shortly.
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When some people hear about “training”, even on a hot topic like Android, they envision balding guys with glasses, droning on endlessly in a monotone, putting them to sleep while they are cooped up in stuffy training room.
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Android Dev Phone 1 owners are currently getting their Holiday Update which is similar to the RC33 update G1 owners in the US have received while the UK G1s wait.

The Android Dev Phone or ADP1 are SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked Android phones for developers which are essentially the same as the G1 and costs around $400.
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Fast Company announced the first Android Developer Meetup in New York City to be held on Tuesday December 16th, 2008.

Thirty top Android developers in the New York City area will talk about their applications and working with Android from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Fast Company offices on the 29th floor of the World Trade Center (NUMBER 7).
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Are you looking to start producing applications for the G1 and future “Google Phones” in the Android Market – especially once you can get paid for them in 2009?

Now that Google has released a SIM and hardware unlocked device for developers called the Android Dev Phone 1 along with a new Android 1.0 SDK, release 2 – 1.0_r2 – you just need to know what the heck you are doing when you are actually programming in Android.
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The creators of ShopSavvy, Big in Japan, will be holding an AndroidDevCamp in Dallas Texas on Saturday October 25th plus providing free pizza.

The stated purpose is to have Dallas be the most represented city in the 2nd Android Developer Challenge.

Dallas had two winners of the first Android Developer Challenge with Rylan Barnes creating GoCart, now ShopSavvy, and Jason Hudgins who developed TuneWiki – Both of whom will be at the event.
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The dominating SmartPhones in 2009 will be the ones that have a fast user friendly access to social networks, location services, and search.

The emergence of Android is unleashing this creativity with individual programmers as well corporations such as Motorola whereby they are already posting positions to develop an Android Social Networking SmartPhone – which a fellow AndroidGuy had discovered.
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