Google Releases New & Improved Android SDK Version 0.9

Google has just released the new and greatly improved Android software development kit version 0.9.

This is the first release of the Android SDK that is formally on the path to Android 1.0 which the previous m5-rc15 version was not.

This beta SDK release contains a large number of bug fixes and improvements from the early-look SDKs such as:

• More of the standard Android user applications are now included, such as the Music and Messaging applications.
• Many bug fixes to the Media Player
• Emulator performance is improved, especially for startup
• More internal APIs are removed from class documentation.
• It’s now much easier to add media content to the SD card and have the ContentProvider locate and expose it to other applications.

You can download it from Google at this URL – http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html

The Plusminus petition by Nicolas for the new SDK has been answered and you can see his screenshots of it in use here.