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So you've been working on the same project as Romain Guy. Has Google built a French team on purpose to work on that project ? ;-)

C'est impossible!

Strangely, I was thinking exactly like Ludovic.
So, is android a pure frenchy thingy ?
Even weirdier, you never seem to be (like Romain in fact) in the mobile way of life. Is it a change, or am I missing a point ?

I've been working in the mobile area for a while, my previous project was the Java ME Gmail application. I posted the following pretty much exactly a year ago:

http://tinyurl.com/yz5scg

Well, no offense here. But the Gmail ME application has always been flaky on Blackberry! Not sure if the Gmail mobile team is trying to improve it but ,for instance, a lot of Blackberry users are complaining about Gmail app freezing when composing long emails.
This is really frustrating. Everything works fine until you reach a certain limit, and then the whole thing freezes up and the email is lost
without being saved as a draft.

Does the Gmail ME app is running on the Android platform?

gmail version : 1.3.0
BB curve OS : 4.2.2.171 platform 2.5.0.24

Hey Cedric!

I will be among the first to download the SDK on November 12, I promise.

I can't wait to see what role Java is playing on Android.

Best Carl

The way of the future for *THIRD-PARTY* cellphone apps is Web-based apps, you know it better than anyone else. The iPhone is shipping *today* and is huge. It's getting huger by the day. A web browser + JavaScript = webapps on my users' cellphones.

Apple got it right.

I see Esmertec in the members of the Android alliance, they're one of the biggest JVM manufacturer for cellphones. The cellphones runs Linux. So I guess Java's going to be available.

But having worked in the cellphone industry since years (Java and BREW) I can tell that Java is *NOT* the answer to third-party cellphones apps.

The answer is Web-based apps, just like, say, my beloved GMail Webapp that I can't live without anymore.

Regarding the flaky GMail Java J2ME app on Blackberry: RIM's JVMs are the worst of all mobiles JVM implementation, so don't blame Cedric.

I do truly hope that these yet-to-come phones will offer a fully functionnal browser + JavaScript. Who needs an (crappy Eclipse based?) SDK to develop third-party native apps when one can develop a Webapp that shall work on all cellphones offering a good Web browser?

What's my incentive to write an app today for cellphones that will *NOT* work on an iPhone, seen their fast growing market share?

Anonymous, I don't agree with your statement about the future. Indeed mobile providers design their *current* generation of apps with JavaScript around the browser, but that's not the *future*.

The future is Silverlight, Flex and maybe Android and/or some other kind of Java-based system.

Maybe we can call this Ajax mess "Web 2.0" and the next generation "Web 3.0" ?

The next generation will have to work offline also. Many applications will operate location-based and because of the huge amount of user-specific data, caching on the phone will be very important. Don't forget, more than half of the users on this planet will *only* have a mobile phone and no PC.

Today is November 12, Android day, I think it's going to be a happy day. :-)

(BTW: There are rumours that the iPhone will also come with a Java SDK soon.)

Happy happy day.
Niiiiiice.
Thanks!

I think the Anonymous Apple Troll wrote this before they heard that Apple is indeed creating an SDK, otherwise I think the KoolAid might have a different flavor.