Google's Android team extended an olive branch last week when it rolled out a new software development kit and a development road map to application programmers of the much ballyhooed mobile operating system.

Android advocates also omitted two key APIs from the mix for security reasons, but failed to detail what those were Aug. 18.

Well, enquiring developers wanted to know, so Google brought in Google security gurus to explain why the Android team removed GTalkService and Bluetooth API from the 0.9 beta SDK and why they also won't appear in the Android 1.0 SDKs.

The disclosure comes a few months before Google is expected to release the finished Android 1.0 mobile operating system. The first device, the HTC Dream,  has been cleared for a Nov. 10 release, just in time for the holidays. Google is banking on Android phones to help it target consumers and mobile workers with search, applications and mobile advertising.

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