Category: Android

Text entry is indispensable in productivity and collaboration applications such as email, IM, and SMS. Without a large physical keyboard, slow text entry cripples these applications on touch screen based mobile phones. ShapeWriter lets the user simply slide a finger or stylus from letter to letter on a touch screen keyboard and lift to complete an entire word. The approximate stroke gesture is recognized as the intended word. ShapeWriter on Android supports three activities: WritingPad, gTalk, and Balloon Game. All three demonstrate and take advantage of ShapeWriter’s core technology. Read more about ShapeWriter (Android Application)

What if you were being attacked? Could you protect yourself and call for help at the same time? Could you dial 911? What if the phone could help? What if the phone could contact everyone in your SafetyNet telling them of your situation? Maybe provide your location? What if the phone could distract an assailant by sounding a loud siren plus activating a voice track announcing each function as it happens? What if your phone started capturing images of the scene? What if your phone could dial 911 and what if it did all of this by simply shaking it? Read more about SafetyNet (Android Application)

PedNav is an application that helps you plan your activities efficiently when moving around and interacting with an urban environment. It helps you select your daily activities using well-organized listings and lets you specify the time constraints for each of these activities while finding the most suitable public transportation and/or walking directions to each destination. PedNav is the ideal application for anyone who desires a one-stop shop for organizing their day, whether for a business trip, a shopping expedition, or an entertaining night out. Read more about PedNav (Android Application)

MyCloset can manage a person's fashion items through a mobile phone and can check weather information to select appropriate clothing. When taking a trip, MyCloset coordinates outfits by checking the weather at your destination and then generates a list of items to take with you on your trip. In addition to sorting by registration number, item name, and frequency of use, MyCloset can sort by the color features detected from the image. With an intuitive user interface and a charming design MyCloset offers a new user experience. Read more about MyCloset (Android Application)

mobeedo is a "mobile oracle" which displays exactly and only the information available on the mobeedo platform relevant to the users' current situation. The platform can be accessed by anyone for providing any kind of situation-specific information or services to be consumed via smart phones. Additionally a map in the background indicates the users' current location. Optionally one's track as well as "classical" POIs can be overlayed. When brought to the foreground, the map can not only be used to navigate, but the information relevant to that location can be provided. Read more about mobeedo (Android Application)

Using Marvin is like exploring the world of user-generated content with finger gestures on the move, without touching a desktop computer. Publish whatever you want in specific services to serve your daily life. With Marvin users can help each other by publishing useful information to specific places, provide their own input, and rate existing messages. Marvin is also a point-to-point content delivery system to publish pictures and textual messages attached to locations to your spouse, kids and friends from your mobile device to their mobile device. Publish dynamic messages that are able to follow you when you engage the Location Cruise Control mode. Read more about Marvin (Android Application)

LifeAware (TM) enables you to locate your friends and family members on your phone or the LifeAware (TM) website. It also allows you to set zones for specific friends and be alerted when friends enter or leave those zones. Be notified when any of your friends are within a specified distance of your current location or other pre-determined locations. Create and share location aware GeoLists. Updates to the lists by any friend are displayed to the entire "share group" of friends. Read more about LifeAware (Android Application)

JOYity is a platform for designing and running a new kind of mobile game. Players interact with the platform itself and with other Players (either via platform or in real life). The Games use location-based services in order to make Players leave the sofa to complete Quests and meet other Players. Game Designers can design their own Games using the Android device as well. Read more about JOYity (Android Application)

Equipped with handwriting input, video chat, map marking, graffiti and multi-share, IMEasy offers a fresh mobile chatting experience as well as extending “touch” with friends. If people want to chat with friends by handwriting, use IMEasy. If people want to show a travel plan to a friend just like holding a map and a pen face to face, use IMEasy. If people want to draw paintings or share pictures with friends, use IMEasy. Read more about IMEasy (Android Application)

iMap Mobile (TM) delivers weather information to the phone at the moment it is relevant. When traveling, iMap Mobile TM) shows high-quality radar images and lightning strike data on the Android map interface and updates it as you move. iMap Mobileâ„¢ allows you to see the current weather conditions, and detailed and extended weather forecasts for your current location. iMap Mobile (TM) sends you a notification when your phone enters an active severe weather watch or warning area and cancels the notification when you leave the area or the event expires. You can monitor the same weather information for multiple locations. Read more about iMap Mobile (TM) (Android Application)