Android was announced on November 5 by a group called the Open Handset Alliance, a group of more then 30 industry leading technology companies. The Alliance will provide developers with a new level of openness that enables them to work more collaboratively. Today, the Alliance released an early look at the Android software developer kit (SDK) that includes the documentation, sample projects, development tools, emulator, and libraries that developers will need to build an Android application. November 5's Android SDK announcement can be found on the Alliance blog: .