repo the android opensource via proxy

If you are using proxy, you will get error when run: "repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git".
Here is a tip to repo via proxy.

To use GIT behind a proxy, have a look at:
http://www.aptgetupdate.de/2007/07/27/git-hinterm-proxy-nutzen/

Basically the steps are:
1 - sudo apt-get install socket
2 - in your home directory, put a shell script called "proxy-cmd.sh"
containing (replace YOUR_PROXY and YOUR_PROXY_PORT with your own proxy
parameters):
#! /bin/bash
(echo "CONNECT $1:$2 HTTP/1.0"; echo; cat ) | socket YOUR_PROXY
YOUR_PROXY_PORT | (read a; read a; cat )
3 - chmod +x proxy-cmd.sh
4 - export GIT_PROXY_COMMAND=/proxy-cmd.sh

Android 1.0 drawable tables within android.jar

Android 1.0 drawables shows the images/icons within the android.jar.

You can use any of these images/icons with your Android app, the same way you would with your own "drawables," by simple referencing the correct name in the "android.R.drawable" package, for example:

myMenuItem.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_save);

Google Android Native libc Bionic library

Google developed a custom library for the C compiler (libc) called Bionic. This was necessary for three main reasons:

• License: they wanted to keep GPL out of user-space. Bionic code uses the BSD license.
• Size: the library has to be loaded in each process, so it needs to be small. Bionic is about 200K, or half the size of glibc (the GNU version of libc).
• Speed: limited CPU power means it needs to be fast. Bionic has a small size and fast code paths, including a very fast and small custom pthread implementation.

Bionic has built-in support for important Android-specific services such as system properties and logging. It doesn’t support certain POSIX features, like C++ exceptions and wide chars, which were not needed on Android. Thus it’s not quite compatible with the gnu libc. All native code must be compiled against bionic, not glibc.

Google Android gets open

Google's open source android now actually open, go to http://source.android.com/download to have a downloading.