>> BRIN: Hi. Welcome to Mountain View, California. I'm speaking here at Google's Headquarters.
And I'd like to tell you about something I'm really excited about. It's called Android
and it's a new open source operating system and software platform for mobile phones. Just
like I learned how to write great services in software upon free tools for the web like
Linux and GNU, now with Android you'll be able to do the exact same things on mobile
phones. The software is all free, the source is completely available, and we expect great
new powerful applications to be developed on it. The SDK is being released right now
and you can download it. And to show you some of the highlights and some of the applications
we've already developed, here's Steve. >> HOROWITZ: You've probably been hearing
a little bit about the G-Phone lately. I'm here to tell you there is actually no G-Phone.
Instead, I'd like to introduce you to the Android platform. This is a platform, we hope,
will enable people to create thousands of G-Phones. The first device I'd like to show
you today is a prototype that I've been living with for about the past six month, because
in order to create a great product, you actually have to live with it. This particular device
is running a full version of the Android software stack that has all the functionality you would
expect in a basic phone. Here's an example of a home screen. This is a place where you
have access to all of your favorite applications, such as your browser, maps or contacts. If
you want to call somebody, just type their name and hit dial. And I'm calling my friend,
Erin. Of course, one of the things that we've built into the software development kit is
the ability to interact and integrate applications with one another. So another example using
contacts, let's say I want to find out where Erin lives. I simply go and type her name.
And when I bring up her contact and select her address, it'll take me right to the maps
application and it's going to zoom right in to show me where Erin lives. If I click "see
on the map," then we notice that she lives on Amphitheatre Parkway. But maybe I'm not
quite sure where that is, so I want to zoom out a little bit to see what freeway that
might be close to. There, we can see that it's near the Highway 101. Now, if we go back
to the home page, one of the other things I want to show you is the ability for devices
using the Android platform to receive notifications. For example, here, I just received the notification
from my friend, Lexi, that says, "Eh, pizza sounds good." That must be what she wants
for dinner. You noticed that it first showed up at the top of the screen and it told me
that--the contents of that message. If I want to go and read that message, all I have to
do is navigate up and you can see--oh, there's my notification from Lexi. It says "Pizza
sounds good." If I want to reply, I just hit the enter key and I can go into my text messaging
application and say, "Great," and away we go. It sounds like we're having pizza for
dinner tonight. The next device I'd like to show you is a more high-end prototype that
includes advanced features, such as high-speed 3G networking, accelerated 3D graphics, and
a touch screen. Let me show you the browser application. A Web browser is based on the
open source WebKit. The industry standard these days, it's the one that allows you to
see Web pages just as they would appear on your desktop. The other thing that you'll
notice about a web browser is that it's loading over the fast 3G data network. This device
is capable of accessing the Internet at 3G speeds and loading web pages quite fast. Now,
the pages loaded here and we're zoomed in a little bit. So, if I want to see more of
the page, I can simply grab it and pan around a little bit. And if I want to see the page
in its full glory, I can simply zoom out and see it just as what it would appear on my
desktop. We also have a rich visual history for our browser. Go in here, and I can look
at the history for my browser and I can see all the sites that I visited recently. The
next application I like to show you is global time. This shows you the rich graphical powers
of the Android platform. And in this case, it's using the 3D OpenGL ES to render a globe
here and allow me to very easily spin it with my finger. I can also play with the earth
while it's spinning around. The Android graphics API allows you to very easily mix 3D and 2D
graphics. Next, I'd like to show you some of the advanced 3D hardware capabilities of
this prototype using "Quake." Any application that is written to the Android OpenGLs API's
will be able to take full advantage of any hardware acceleration. Now, I'd like to show
you the Maps application. I happen to be here at the City of San Francisco. Using the touching
capabilities of this device, I can pan around the city of San Francisco and watch those
map tiles load for me at 3G speeds. One of the benefits of the Android platform is that
we build in basic functionality like map views so your application doesn't have to reinvent
all the functionality in maps if you want to build something on top of it. Here I am
at the Embarcadero in street view, starting from wherever I was on maps. If I want to,
I can simply take my finger and I can move that image around and I can pan around and
see what the Embarcadero looks like. I can also zoom in. That was just a preview of some
of the things the Android platform can do. We can't wait to see what developers will
come up with next. >> BRIN: Welcome back, I hope you enjoyed
seeing some of the applications we have built all ready. But the best applications are not
here yet. That's because they're going to be written by you and many other developers
just like you. We'd like to reward these developers and to recognize them as much as possible.
So we've set aside $10 million, which we're going to give away to the people who develop
the best applications using Android. We're looking forward to seeing some really great
apps: ones which are innovative; make use of the great functionality available in Android
and on mobile phones; and things that are really original that haven't been seen before.
I look forward to seeing all of your work.