Building a Android Application

Interesting YouTube - A first hand look at building an Android application about building a Android application. Highlights:

• Eclipse project support. With emulator support.
  
• Write Java to develop a new application - pattern is to extend an existing class for controller / behaviour, use XML for visual layout (view).
  

What is apparent from looking at this, is that the capabilities provided by the API are nice, but basic. I think someone needs to Spring-ify this API a bit more - a lot of the code (and to be fair there isn't much required) looks like stuff that could be configured rather than programmed (freeing developers from having to know specific API's - at least for basic stuff like listing contacts and tie-ing these to actions).

Still it is nice to see this kind of capability. Will be interesting to see how this compares to the Apple IPhone SDK when it arrives next year.