Google released a new version of the software developer kit (SDK) for its Android Mobile Phone Operating System. The new SDK incorporates new features like new user interface, a geocoder that lets developers search for businesses as well as translate an address into a coordinate and vice versa, support for new media codecs, and code that lets developers create layout animations.

However, Google’s lack of updates to the telephony package within Android is a major cause of disappointment to some Android developers.

With all of these updates from Google, Android faces competition from the established mobile operating systems as well as companies that have rallied behind LiMo, the consortium that is developing an open Linux mobile operating system.

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