{Early experience with the Android 1.5 SDK}

The Android 1.5 SDK r1 has been released by the Google team and it was hardly any wait from the early look SDK that came out 2 weeks ago.
Of course, the feature-set mentioned in the beta is there, and the documentation is updated.

More details on creation of AVDs and version notes detailing the usage of minSDKVersion for developers.

Compiling our source with a build target of 1.1, went smoothly and hardly any change in code was needed for a build target of 1.5. However, moving to build target of Android 1.5 would not suffice for a project that used Maps, we had to select the ‘Google APIs’ build target (understandable as the maps package was moved out).  Respective Deployment targets were selected for running the apk in the emulator.

It was a joy to see the soft-keys come up when I hit the text box, I have to admit!.