Today, and after unveiling it at Google I/O, Facebook released its official Facebook SDK for the Android platform.

With the current release Android developers can finally transform their apps into social gateways. Specifically, these are the features built into this first SDK release:

• Strong authentication using OAuth 2.0
• Making requests to the new Graph API
• Publishing stories back to Facebook via Feed forms

For all the Android VS iPhone fans, this SDK actually brings to Android developers a feature that is still unavailable to Applers: the Graph API, introduced with the purpose to simplify and uniform the access to Facebook contents and relationships.

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Adobe recently announced the public availability of the Adobe AIR for Android Developer Prerelease program. Any designer or developer interested in building Android applications using the Flash Platform is welcome to join this program to get access to the beta SDK.

At Google I/O Vic Gundotra, Google VP Engineering announced Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.5 running on FroYo.  The launch represents a milestone that we’ve been working towards for some time, and all of us at Adobe are hugely excited to see Flash Player 10.1 finally get into the hands of consumers. [more from Mark...]

Even if those announcements are all about Android OS the final target mobile operating systems for Flash Player also include Windows Phone 7, webOS, Symbian, and BlackBerry. This is a really exciting news for all Flash Mobile developers out there!

If you don’t have an Android device yet, you can already begin using this technology for your latest cool mobile project! Greg Wilson has an useful post about what you’ll need to start developing Android AIR apps today.

Build quality for the Hero is outstanding, the device is light but feels really solid to hold.  As many of you have heard me bleat previously buttons are always a big giveaway when it comes to quality.  If a button rocks in it’s bezel, or has a poor action you can tell that it’s not designed to last.  With the Hero there’s no issues with any of the front facing buttons, the volume control on the side could have been toughened up. Read more »

Hi all, Here is my presentation on MobileAppliance.org an open source framework for serving remote functionality to J2ME and Android handsets.