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| author | Android (Google) Code Review <android-gerrit@google.com> | 2009-11-18 14:08:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Android (Google) Code Review <android-gerrit@google.com> | 2009-11-18 14:08:08 -0800 |
| commit | afcd516e3e6378aaf97ff44b0b9ea233223ded65 (patch) | |
| tree | 120a8280f87840ec89e31f53bb8fd5618b0409ba /docs/html/guide/basics | |
| parent | 00ecac957c4a5d2df132640ff418280d969e7d83 (diff) | |
| parent | 8d86952068750b1b3c3f8cac967e2b5fcb1a83ae (diff) | |
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Merge change Iaae72f66 into eclair-sdk
* changes:
docs: misc edits to samples page and intro docs make samples page accessible from offline version instead of redirecting to the user filesystem and include instructions for creating projects based on the sample apps. fix a link and add some content to the What is android doc.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/html/guide/basics/what-is-android.jd | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/html/guide/basics/what-is-android.jd b/docs/html/guide/basics/what-is-android.jd index b75321b..668e62e 100644 --- a/docs/html/guide/basics/what-is-android.jd +++ b/docs/html/guide/basics/what-is-android.jd @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ page.title=What is Android? <p>Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The <a -href="http://code.google.com/android/download.html">Android SDK</a> +href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html">Android SDK</a> provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.</p> @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ others. All applications are written using the Java programming language.</p> <a name="application_framework" id="application_framework"></a> <h2>Application Framework</h2> +<p>By providing an open development platform, Android +offers developers the ability to build extremely rich and innovative +applications. Developers are free to take advantage of the +device hardware, access location information, run background services, set alarms, +add notifications to the status bar, and much, much more. </p> + <p>Developers have full access to the same framework APIs used by the core applications. The application architecture is designed to simplify the reuse of components; any application can publish its capabilities and any other |