Have you hugged your Android today?
I am exploring Android. First take- I like it. Just the API list alone is enough to cause excitement. Speech recogntion? XMPP? Maps? The list goes on: nio, sax, dom, json, location, reflection, crypto, sqlite, sound, httpclient, junit, telephony, openGL ES, logging, sound, midi, media playback and record, sms ... Forget about MIDP forever. Forget about OEM java extensions that are weak and non-standard.
Android promises future support for bluetooth and wifi, too. I am really looking forward to getting more bluetooth profiles rather than dealing with crippled iplementations from OEMs.
This system is made for devleoping best of breed apps
There are areas of improvement on the tools front. The eclipse plug-in gets the job done, but how much hand-coding or hand-writing XML for building GUI's do you really want to do? A powerful drag and drop visual editor with property sheets support (think Flex Builder) is what is needed to get things rolling.
Just imagine being able to test your code properly on a handset. You would think this was an unachievable goal given the last few years of J2ME (let's see, two versions in 6 years??). Hopefully JavaFx will compete with Android if only to continue to grow the ecosystem and force all parties to get better.
