Interesting to discover Steve Yegge's posts about Google's failure to produce a successful platform today. Lack of G+_ API's to interact with this service other than through a web browser will be what ultimately kills it, for certain.
G+ is not the only thing that faces this problem (and Steve criticises Google across the board for this failure). Google have had to address APIs for Android, of course, but even in doing so the platform restricts development in a number of ways (e.g. you can only write programs in Java), limiting access to swathes of existing libraries that would boost software capability.
It would be great if there was an easy way to import a C or C++ library into an Android project.
My current desire is a library which can do SRV lookups. Doing this in Java seems to require some very enterprisey code which also won't easily run on Android, but I find it hard to believe that it's technically very complicated.