Android Open Handset Developers Community

Hi,
by reading about Android platform, I have found that Android supports almost all the APIs made available by Java SE.

Is it correct ?

Android supports a large set of APIs from Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Platform .

Supported:

java.io
java.lang (except java.lang.management)
java.math
java.net
java.nio
java.security
java.sql
java.text
java.util

javax.crypto
javax.net
javax.security
javax.sound
javax.sql
javax.xml.parsers

org.w3c.dom (sub-packages excluded)
org.xml.sax

NOT Supported:

java.applet
java.awt
java.beans
java.lang.management
java.rmi

javax.accessibility
javax.activity
javax.imageio
javax.management
javax.naming
javax.print
javax.rmi
javax.security.auth.kerberos
javax.security.auth.spi
javax.security.sasl
javax.swing
javax.transaction
javax.xml (except javax.xml.parsers)
org.ietf.*
org.omg.*
org.w3c.dom.* (sub-packages)

It looks to me that Android platform is based neither on Java SE API nor on Java ME API.

It can be viewed as a Open Handset Alliance's version based on some Java SE and Java ME packages, as well as apache commons, junit, httpclient and a new GUI interface instead of AWT.

My hope is that in the near future a good set of android packages could also be delivered in order to manage basic and advanced telephony issues like SMS, contacts, power management and location !!!!

I think so. Well, let us congratulate him for being kin to everyone.
Hoping that he will not change his attitude!



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