Android is certainly at an earlier stage than iPhone. I have an Android
phone, but not many others do. I think there are several key
differentiators from the iPhone at present:

1) ability to run apps in background
2) digital compass
3) better google map support in applications
4) ability to scan barcodes
5) general openness

of course these may all change in time. Android may be stuck as a
developers curiosity for the time-being, but I'm not so interested in
waiting for Apple to add the things that Android already has, and so I'm
very much enjoying developing with them.

Google has deep pockets - it will be interesting to see how long they
will subsidize their platform. It's difficult to imagine at present
that Android will ever be in as wide spread use as iPhone, but then
again who knows ...

Anyhow, I hope we can have meetings where we look at both platforms, and
perhaps others, e.g. RIM, Nokia etc.

CHEERS> SAM

Kelvin Kakugawa wrote:
> I'd be interested in talking about iPhone development. And I'm
> keeping an eye on the Android, but I think it needs more time to
> mature. I was in Silicon Valley up until recently, and the iPhone
> Developer's meetup has a huge attendance. 100+ every month and slowly
> growing. The Android meetup had only 10 people show up in November
> and no one, including the organizer, had a G1. Not to mention, only 3
> people intended to develop for it and it was because they had
> successful iPhone apps, they couldn't think of another one, so they
> were going to port it to the Android platform. And this was the
> Silicon Valley meetup in Mountain View--right on Google's doorstep.
> I'd like to see viable competitors to the iPhone, so Apple loosens
> its grip, but I wanted to share my perspective on the competition.
>
> -Kelvin
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Daniel Leuck wrote:
>
>> We are happy to host if you guys need space. I'm also interested in
>> attending as we have started to do iPhone development and have a
>> couple RoR projects going.
>>
>> If you post the meetings on the TechHui calendar I'm sure you will see
>> decent attendance. It worked well for the Eclipse users group.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Sam Joseph <srjoseph@...
>> <mailto:srjoseph%40ha%0A%20waii.edu>> wrote:
>> > Sorry for the lack of meetings - my increasing family size has made
>> > evening meetings difficult.
>> >
>> > I was thinking of trying to arrange honolulu-coder lunches. First off
>> > for iphone programming and then also for android ...
>> >
>> > CHEERS> SAM
>> >
>> > Ken Mayer wrote:
>> >> Anyone? There hasn't been a H-C meet in awhile. Any local rubyists
>> want to
>> >> get together?
>> >>
>> >>
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