As recognition to Android’s blooming success, and with the high hopes of driving the tablet-exclusive Honeycomb 3.0 OS  to seize the market, the Linux Foundation announced the inaugural Android Builder Summit this April 13 and 14 in San Francisco, happening around the same time as the 2011 Embedded Linux Conference.

“Linux is providing the foundation on which next-generation devices are being built, and Android is one of the most shining examples of how successful this model can be,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “We’re pleased to facilitate collaboration among the Android’s ecosystem participants and drive innovation at the systems level of the platform.”

The Android Builder Summit is a technical conference calling out Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), their device manufacturers, integrators, custom builders, and the growing Android and Linux Kernel developer communities to develop existing Android technologies while fast-tracking the adoption of Linux across the entire consumer devices market, since Android is Linux-based operating system. It will serve as an Android-centric in-depth forum tackling fundamental opportunities and issues around its structure.

The summit will take on the following topics: custom builds, alternative middleware, network functionality extensions, Peer-to-Peer frameworks, USB device support, security, unification of power management, tools and hybrid Android devices, among many other topics.

Perhaps one of Android’s selling points is its competitive price tag, and it’s getting cheaper and cheaper over time. It’s been loyally supported by the likes of HTC and T-Mobile at the Mobile World Congress.  The HTC Flyer tablet is running on Android 2.4, which is kind of drifting away from the tablet trend of Honeycomb –in order to “bake its Sense interface on the Flyer, while Honeycomb would have required more time,” while much of the tablets at the Mobile World Congress have been running on Honeycomb – the Galaxy Tab 10.1, LG Optimus Pad, and Motorola Xoom.

We’ve also seen Android lagging behind Apple in terms of application accessibility, so Google finally rolled out the Android Market Webstore in order to fill this void. It supports in-app payments, as well as post-app reviews. Moreover, Android has been hinting the name of its upcoming operating system which Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced to sound like a mash-up of Gingerbread and Honeycomb, and will “start with an I [and] be named after a dessert”. It was said to be Ice Cream. Android Ice Cream. This is one of the things I love about Android, they always have delicious names.