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We have all been hearing so much about the Android mobile platform. Android was developed by more than 30 companies and is currently free to use for anyone who wants to get their hands on it. Headed up by none other than Google, Android also offers the Android Software Development Kit.

The details of the mobile platform can be pretty intense, so if you want to know more, there is a “What is Android?” page up on the Android area of the Google site.

Windows Mobile platform is also a big player in the mobile platform arena. Microsoft is working on “Kojax,” somewhat of a competitor to the popular Ajax development platform. The difference is that Kojax is strictly for mobile platforms.

Could Kojax be the next big thing in the mobile industry, or will the open-source solutions win over more fans?

Keep in mind that Kojax is just the code name for the technology. The actual implementation of the software could end up being named something else.

According to a report by Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, “Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, that will allow Microsoft- — and third-party-developed — applets run in an Ajax-like way, using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript, on Java-based mobile phones.”

What will Kojax be able to do? The software will be geared more toward “business-like” functionality, rather than bells-and-whistles that are not necessarily needed. “…more like a virtual wallet for online payments, a group messaging service and photo-sharing app — things that build on top of Windows Live for Mobile services. Some of these Kojax-based applets will be ad-funded; others will likely be transaction- and subscription-based.”

Keep an eye out for new developments within the Windows mobile playing field. If not Android, Kojax could be the next big market penetrator.

Are you interested in learning more about Ajax and ASP.NET? Check out the following titles.

ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls can encapsulate even the most powerful AJAX functionality, helping you build more elegant, maintainable, and scalable applications. This is the first comprehensive, code-rich guide to custom ASP.NET AJAX server controls for experienced ASP.NET developers.

Unlike other books on ASP.NET AJAX, this book focuses solely on server control development and reflects the significant improvements in ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX and the latest Visual Studio 2008 features for streamlining AJAX development.

Adam Calderon and Joel Rumerman first review the core Microsoft AJAX Library and JavaScript techniques needed to support a rich client-side experience. Next, they build upon these techniques showing how to create distributable AJAX-enabled controls that include rich browser-independent JavaScript client-side functionality.

As the Internet user experience (UX) progresses, more users are demanding and expecting their custom-built business applications to provide the same UX that they see on the Internet every day. ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed empowers ASP.NET developers to easily provide this type of experience with minimal code.

Author Rob Foster has built AJAX-enabled web applications for a number of major corporations and uses the experience he has gained there to explain concisely, clearly, and completely what ASP.NET developers need to learn to start taking advantage of the rich opportunities made possible by ASP.NET AJAX.

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