According to this: http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/2010/09/23/update-on-updates/ SE have pushed the roll-out of the Android 2.1 back a couple of weeks. 

 Well, I must admit that I am disappointed of course, but when you see the bile and hatred spewing around the I am frankly amazed how childish and demanding people are acting. 

I just don't get it. 

I love my Android phone, and so far, I hate Eclipse (ok, hate is such a strong word. But I DO dislike it  ). When one is used to Visual Studio, Eclipse is very very different, and difficult to work with. In addition I have a lot of trouble with the Java namespaces and etc. etc.

I have big plans for applikations for Android, not that I expect to make them generally available, but mostly because it is really a toy and a tool for me.

So far, mostly due to time constraints, Eclipse and Java have managed to stop me dead in my tracks while I struggle to relearn Java. The syntax as such is not a problem, I usually code in C#, and the syntactical differences are really minor. The main difference is the strict programming model I have to follow, lack of easy documentation (and more importantly, the RIGHT real-world code examples).

Oh, and the Java namespaces….

So, imagine my exhilaration when I discovered this.

Now, I am just waiting anxiously for this to be released ;)

Well, I have been looking, briefly so far, at development for the Android. Man, when you're used to Visual Studio and C#, Eclipse and Java is a pain.

Strange error messages, weird project structures and so on. I just don't get it. The worst part, I think is to actually getting Eclipse and the Android SDK to play nicely together. Visual Studio just works.

Well, I'll persevere, but it sure ain't easy. I had Eclipse set up a while ago, and due to other stuff I had to let the learning lay for a while. Now I fire the IDE, and nothing works.

A couple of months ago, I got my first real smart phone, a HTC Tattoo. It is not quite in league with the big ones, like Hero or Droid. Not to mention Nexus One or HTC Legend.

It is however a nice little phone, and although the screen is relatively small (2.8" and QVGA) it suits my needs quite nicely.

Now, I am a software developer and as such a phone which is programmable is really a toy for someone like me, as well as a tool. So I have plans, oh I have plans.

My normal development environment is Visual Studio and .NET (C#), so Eclipse and java is quite far away from what I usually use. Although the syntax in C# and Java is very like each other, the SDK is very very different.

Even a simple Hello World applikation is a struggle. But I will get there, I have no doubt. It is what I want, all I need is the time for it.

So, my plans for Android development?

1. Develop something simple, but useful. I have decided to write an Android application for retrieving the server status for City of Heroes, which is available from the site. This will be accomplished through several steps with the first being very very simple.

2. Develop something more complicated, like maybe an application for blogging from the phone to e.g. a BlogEngine.NET blog.

There are blog applications for Android, but those I have found sofar is for Wordpress, no one seems to implement the meta weblog API.

That is the plan, now for the time to follow it…