Android SDK 1.5 — Developers get an early look
Android developers can have an early look at the new Android SDK version, codenamed 1.5. The new SDK has reportedly a new component structure and will not work with and old Eclipse plugin. A new plugin will accompany the new SDK. The new plugin is not backward compatible and will not support developing with the old SDK as well.
From Google:
This is an early look SDK only. The tools and documentation are not complete. The API reference documentation for the early look SDK is provided only in the downloadable SDK package — documentation for this early look release is not available at http://developer.android.com. To access the API reference for the early look SDK, see the documentation in your SDK’s docs/reference/ directory.
Additionally, note that the APIs provided in this SDK are subject to change until the final Android 1.5 SDK is released. You should not compile any applications for distribution using this version of the SDK. If you do so, your applications may not function properly when deployed to Android-powered devices running the final Android 1.5 platform. Please wait for the final Android 1.5 SDK before distributing applications built on the Android 1.5 system image.
You can download and find other information on the early SDK here.
Those are great news both for the developers and phone owners. Developers will hopefully get a new and shiny Eclipse plugin and it seems as many more components to develop even better applications. And the end users are of course are only going to benefit from that.
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