Sorry for the lateness but school has to come first. Instead of waxing poetic about how great Android is and how its can change our lives due to being able interact with our data on the go in a very productive and intuitive manner, I’ll just post a few links so you can check it out for yourselves.
Information on the Android ’software stack’? Click here. Videos about the Android platform and how it all works? Click here. Want to start developing applications for the Android platform? Click here for Android’s documentation, here for Android’s Software Development Kit (SDK), here for Eclipse (highly recommended), here if you still need the Java Runtime Environment and here for installation instructions. After that, I recommend reading this simple article and tutorial on the LinuxDevices website. Google is also holding a contest for software developers developing applications on the Android platform. Click here to find out more on the Android Developer Challenge.