Google has just released his new Mobile OS called Android, and we can already see websites, magazines and mobile phones holders comparing Android to the iPhone OS.
What I can see (on the web, or just by speaking with friends) is a lot of disappointment : Android OS isn’t the iPhone OS killer.

Actually, Apple did a tremendous work with iPhone OS. It’s quick, reactive, ergonomic, easy to use… It’s hard to a new system (even designed by Google) to beat Apple.

Ok, it’s not as good as iPhone OS but let’s discuss some points :

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A really nice game found on gamereclaim website : AstroFlyer

You drive a spaceship in a vector environment.  There’s not more to say, just try it!

Mr Doob and Román Cortés released an impressive as3 demo of a voxel head. It is a bit heavy (500Kbits), but rendering is sharp and smooth.

Voxel is a “volume element, representing a value on a regular grid in three dimensional space” (Wikipedia).
Voxel is usually used to display landscape or 3d medical data.

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The promising and impressive russian 3D engine is available to download at this adress http://alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d/. Usage is free of charge for personal non profit and you must register to download the swc files.

Demos (flash player 10):

API Documentation:
http://help.alternativaplatform.com/en/client/package-summary.html

And tutorials:
http://docs.alternativaplatform.com/dashboard.action, but still written in russian for the moment. It doesn’t matter : AS3 language is international!

Let’s try this engine and compare it with Papervision and Sandy 3D (which are open-source).

Thibault Imbert has just released a new book on actionscript 3.0 in french : “Pratique d’actionscript 3″.

At first, his book was written to be published by O’Reilly but is finally published on the web under creative common licence.

In the 1100 pages he develops events, garbage collector, sockets, bytes arrays, sounds and more and more and more. It’s a really huge work.

Thibault is famous for his blog bytearray, and his work on wiiflash, alive pdf, gif player…

You can get a pdf version here :  http://pratiqueactionscript3.bytearray.org/. A paper version will be available soon.