Other developers concurred. "I think it's just about a big paycheck in the end, and it'll settle itself out," said Wes Richardet, project scientist with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Skeptical of Oracle's grounds for the lawsuit, developer Joshua Frank said the most of the code Google was using was open source. If the lawsuit does indeed have any legitimacy, Google will settle with Oracle, said Frank, of game builder Tesseract Mobile. "Android's a pretty major development platform, and they're not just going to let it go away," Frank said.

Asked about the lawsuit, Google software engineer Romain Guy went silent. Just prior, he and co-presenter Chet Haase, of the Google Android team, had preached the benefits of Android 3.0 and its capabilities, such as the Renderscript 3D graphics and a hardware-accelerated browser.

Android 3.0's Fragments capability enables developers to build an application for different form factors with minimal amounts of code required per situation. Fragmentation in the Android platform itself, in which there are differentiations in the Android platform between different systems, was lauded by Richardet. "I think fragmentation is good just because it forces a developer to actually take advantage of the differences in the devices," Richardet said.