Android Open Conference

Introducing Android Open

The Android juggernaut is gaining force and momentum, rocketing past the iPhone and Blackberry to become the dominant smartphone platform. And the opportunity goes beyond phones—Android is powering tablets, set-top boxes, and a host of new embedded and connected devices.

Android Open is the first conference to cover the entire Android ecosystem. Whether you're a developer, IT pro, business decision-maker, or marketer, you'll find the latest and best information for maximizing the power of the Android platform. But this new O'Reilly conference is not just about today's Android opportunity—it also spotlights tech, projects, and companies that point to Android's bright future.

Android Open is a big-tent meeting ground for app and game developers, carriers, chip manufacturers, content creators, OEMs, researchers, entrepreneurs, VCs, and business leaders to share best practices, tools, models, and lessons learned. If it's your business to create, sell, or market products in the Android space, if you're launching an Android-centric venture or need to take stock of the competitive landscape, Android Open is the place to be.

Insightful keynotes, practical workshops, and expert-led sessions will explore:

• Building Android apps: best practices
• Android internals—under the hood
• Development tools
• New frameworks
• Alternative languages
• Gaming and game development
• Enterprise solutions and considerations
• Performance and security
• Analytics and revenue models
• Multiple Android markets
• Promotion and consumer needs
• and much more

Android Open happens October 9-11, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. Expect to encounter actionable insight, alternative hardware and services, announcements and product launches, and a "hallway track" that takes networking to a whole new level. Join with other Android professionals who are passionate about making the Android universe open, inclusive, and successful at the very first Android Open.

- Android Open

Analysis Of Android Froyo 2.2

An analysis of Google Android Froyo’s open source kernel has uncovered 88 flaws that could expose users’ data

An analysis of the kernel used in Google’s Android smartphone software has turned up 88 high-risk security flaws that could be used to expose users’ personal information, security firm Coverity said in a report published on Tuesday.

The results, published in the 2010 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report, are based on an analysis of the Froyo kernel used in HTC’s Droid Incredible handset.

Enterprise fears

The results arrive as Android is increasing its market share and increasingly being used in the enterprise.

While Android implementations vary from device to device, Coverity said the same flaws were likely to exist in other handsets as well. Coverity uncovered a total of 359 bugs, about one-quarter of which were classified as high-risk.

The report analysed a total of 61 million lines of open source code from 291 widely used projects, including Apache, Linux, PHP and Samba.

While Android’s density of bugs per thousand lines of code was lower than the average found in open source software overall, it was higher than that of the Linux kernel, according to Coverity. The company said some of the bugs appeared to be important enough to have been addressed before the code was released.

Fixes demanded

Coverity said it will hold off releasing the details of the flaws until January to allow Google and handset vendors to issue fixes. The flaws could be patched via an over-the-air update, Coverity said.

Canalys reported on Monday that Android now dominates the US smartphone market with a 44 percent share, up from 33 percent in the second quarter of this year.

While the deployment of Android on large numbers of handsets has allowed the software to claw market share away from competitors such as RIM, some have criticised Google’s “hands-off” approach for harming the quality of Android and its applications.

-- EWeek Europe