One week on, and the first Android SDK details are emerging from the Open Handset Alliance.  Initial thinking was that the SDK toolkit would be primarily available for participating developers, but it turns out that - more in keeping with the Google way of doing things - it’s a full release, together with tutorials, toolkits, APIs and tips for amateur coders to start hashing something together for upcoming gPhones.  Those a little more proficient have another incentive to develop for the platform: a $10 million prize fund for the best Android applications.

After the cut: Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the Android SDK and demo primary apps

Coders from most backgrounds are catered for, with Windows, Linux and Mac SDK clients all available, and there’s even a plugin that brings the SDK to Eclipse so that programming can be as straightforward as dragging and dropping.

Just as we predicted, Synaptics - the company behind the ClearPad and the stunning Onyx concept - have heavily invested their touchscreen DNA into the toolkit, with compatibility for their ClearPad and MobileTouch technologies available out-of-the-box. 

Excited?  Full of ideas?  Eyeing up that $10m prizefund?  Head on over to the Android Community

[via SlashGear]