For developing applications one can use the means provided by http://developer.android.com . Please have a look at this web site for the appropriate SDK, plugins for eclipse and a lot of samples and tutorials. The development kit will come with a virtual machine (vmware) with a preinstalled development environment for developing and debugging applications.
The kit supports android 2.3.4 and the API level is 10. The compatibility tests are not yet completed but this will be done until Q3/2012.
Components of the virtual machine
* ubuntu linux with all necessary components needed for developing applications for DIMM-EMEV android
* images, roots, and scripts for programming and restoring a core module
* eclipse development environment
* preinstalled SDK
* sample eclipse project
* manual