It has been a busy few weeks. I’ve been getting to grips with the Android platform. Android is a software platform developed by Google for smart phone devices. Right now, the HTC Dream (more commonly known as the T-Mobile G1) is the only device that supports Android - but more are set to follow shortly.

Why have I been learning about Android development?

Android’s relevance to me is linked to the CallLog project I work on. CallLog is an online archiving and reporting tool designed to work with your mobile call data. CallLog essentially just processes this data and tells you interesting things about it, while also serving as a constant archive of your growing set of call data.

CallLog works by receiving your call data directly from your mobile device. For this to be possible, each mobile device wishing to use CallLog must have installed on it the data exporter application.

Up until now, CallLog supported only Symbian Series 60 3rd edition handsets. With the growing popularity of Android-based handsets, it made sense to port the Symbian data exporter to Android and reach out to more potential users.

Android is a well designed platform, making it very easy to be productive when writing code for it. Consequently it hasn’t taken long to get the data exporter doing what it did on S60 devices. The Android exporter can export calls and messages and still supports partial/full exporting over SSL. I’m really impressed with Android and working with it so far has only made me want to work with it more.

CallLog Plug

If you haven’t seen CallLog yet, go have a look. CallLog is totally free and if you don’t have a supported handset, you can ask CallLog to generate dummy data for you.