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BRUCE LEAK: Hi, I'm Bruce Leak.
At SkyPop we have a vision of a new class of mobile
experience, something that's never been possible before, at
least not before the Android platform.
I'm here with Timo Bruck, our CTO and he's going to share
with you what it's like being down and dirty day one on the
Android platform.
TIMO BRUCK: So, day one like most engineers, I got that
Android platform, started running hello world, and I
ended up with the Sudoku game.
I just bypassed hello world altogether, cam up with a nice
graphical application.
I've never done anything like that so
fast on a mobile device.
The platform's' just that easy to use.
Day two I was like OK, what am I going to
do with this platform?
So I took the location APIs and the view and map APIs and
put them together and wrote a friend finder application.
You see who all your friends are, you get maps.
It's just like Google Maps on the web, but it's
on your cell phone.
You have a little compass down here in the corners to help
you find them if you want to try to navigate the maze.
It's kind of like Star Trek.
It's your tricorder to find friends
instead of finding aliens.
So then I want to take it to the next step.
Let's do friend finders plus games.
What could you do there?
So, then I came up with the idea of just doing a teen
geocaching.
You already know where your friends, know where your
opponents are.
You can draw a map that has the location of the cache, it
has your friends.
You can send little taunting messages when you think your
foes are not really catching up to you.
Again, I focused all my time just working on the
application, on the creative part that I wanted to do.
Everything else is provided by the platform.
It's a lot of fun, productive, a joy to work with which is a
pleasure for mobile device.
BRUCE LEAK: We at SkyPop can't wait for the first Android
devices to hit the market so that you can see what we're
really up to.
And so that we can see all the great things that you're going
to develop.
See you soon.