Google launched Android 2.0 today, the latest edition of the search giant's platform for smartphones. In addition, Google officially added support for version 2.0 to the Android software development kit (SDK); so developers can start bringing the boatload of new features brought by the operating system update into their applications. See here for a comprehensive list of new features in Android 2.0 and here for information about the SDK. Below is Google's Official Android 2.0 video. It offers a brief overview of what's in the major platform upgrade.

After the break is a comprehensive list of new user features in Android 2.0 from Google's developers site.