!!! Introduction
Android is pretty cool because:
* it's based on Linux, sqlite, freetype, OpenGL etc.
* the Java-like VM and libraries are Open Source
* great phones, tablets and others are coming out with Android
* the framework has declarative syntax for GUI and animation
* the framework as a nice inter-process communication (Intents)
* people are porting it to all kinds of devices (netbooks, other phones etc.)

!!! Documentation
The main Android doc lives [there|http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html]

Apparently Netbeans [can be used|http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans] to develop for Android although Eclipse is the official environment.


!!! Hardware support
!! Hardware requirements
In 2008 Rubin said in an interview that smaller machines were targeted too and listed the following requirements:
* 32MB RAM
* 32MB Flash Memory
* 200MHz Online Processor
!!