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.

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=38

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?

“Shake to Activate” is the driving force behind the simplicity of the SafetyNet application. By monitoring an on board accelerometer, SafetyNet can detect when a user is forcefully shaking the device in an effort to call for help, even if the application has not been launched.

“Safety Zones” is a SafetyNet feature that takes advantage of Android’s Location Based Manager. This will enable the “Shake to Activate” feature only when it is needed, helping to optimize your battery’s performance while maintaining access to the simplicity of a SafetyNet automated alert.

Medical Alert can use Google’s GTalk technology to notify everyone in your SafetyNet that you are experiencing a Medical emergency. Plus, it activates a voice track that can capture the attention of first responders and provide critical medical information to them even if you can’t.

Author: Michael DeJadon

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=37

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.

The ‘Places’ feature allows the user to browse for venues by address or the current GPS location. Users are able to browse through categories to find what they are looking for, or the search feature may be used to find venues in any category.

The ‘Itineraries’ feature asks users to select venues and assign time constraints (eg. “I want to be at Union Square by 11:00 am”). PedNav then creates a step-by-step itinerary, with public transit and walking directions, telling the user when to go where and how to get there.

Author: RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.
Additional Contributors: Amir Malik, Shawn Bohonos, Roberto Manduchi

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=31

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.

This application features seamless screen transitions through the use of animation.

The layout structure(XML) is capable of utilizing Android features which can be described separately and has high legibility.

Author: Mamoru Tokashiki

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=29

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.

Using Android’s location API to continuously retrieve location and speed empowers mobeedo (also taking into account other parameters) to deliver exactly the information you need in any situation.

Android’s Maps API is used to display your current location, the path you traveled, as well as points of interest near you in order to get a better overview of your surroundings.

Android’s Service architecture in combination with the Notification Manager are used to inform you about important events, even when the mobeedo application is not currently running.

Author: Sengaro GmbH
Additional Contributors: Christian Vogt, Robert Walter, Florian Köllich,Tim Hannemann, Katja Neubarth, Clemens Kilga

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=28

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.

Marvin combines Android OpenGL API, Google Maps rendered in 3D, Google StreetView and standard UI overlays to offer a unique 3D geo-browsing capability on a mobile device. 3D guided navigation and message integration is done from space to street level.

Using the always on networking aspect of Android, Marvin allows users to publish and browse user-generated content by location, services, and keywords. The audience is the world, your connected peer group, or a subset of your group.

Using Android’s Location API, browse public, private or peer feeds near you or anywhere on the map. Make messages follow you physically when you move. Enable, disable or delete what you published, wherever you are.

Author: Laurent Pontier

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=26

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.

Using Android’s location APIs, LifeAware (TM) enables you to locate your friends and family in relation to your current position, search for places near you, create location aware GeoLists, and set up proximity alerts based on your friends’ locations.

Leveraging the Maps API, location mapping and informational overlays provide the users with information about their position, surrounding areas, and the location of their friends and family members. Interactive maps provide visual creation of alert zones by tapping the map to increase or decrease the size of the zones.

Background service capabilities available with the Android platform, allow LifeAware (TM) to function even when the main application is not active on the user’s phone.

Authors: Gregory Moore, Aaron O’Brien, Jawad Akhtar

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=24

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.

Since JOYity Games usually make intensive use of location-based services, the platform utilizes the GPS and map features of Android. JOYity reacts to the Players’ position and movement. For example, the Game might include riddles asking for a sight close to the current position.

JOYity uses many different media for user communication. For example, the Player might watch a picture and hear an audio file and get information both ways. The Player needs to combine the information to perform the next task.

The Android device is not only used for playing, but also for designing new Games. JOYity combines the WebView with other native Android features for the Designer application.

Author: Zelfi AG

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=22

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.

For handwriting input, write across the right edge of the writing pad to input more. You can also drag the vertical bar at the right bottom out to start video chat.

IMEasy uses Maps API to display and combine maps with IM to make the map shown interactive.

Combine paint with IM to let friends do paintings together.

Author: Yan Shi

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=21

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.

iMap Mobile (TM) displays high-resolution radar images and the locations of the most recent lightning strikes on the Android Map interface and allows you to pan, zoom, and loop the images. Touching the lightning icon displays the location and the time of the strike.

iMap Mobile (TM) customizes weather information for your present location using Android’s Location services. This includes: the opening screen, where current conditions for your location are displayed; a map interface that displays and updates radar images and lightning strike locations as you travel; and location aware long-range and detailed forecasts.

iMap Mobile (TM) checks for severe weather watches and warnings, sending a notification through the Android notification systems when the phone moves into an active watch or warning area. You can pull down the notification window-shade and click to see the details for the event.

Author: Weathertop Consulting, LLC
Additional Contributors: Roland Schweitzer, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. (WDT)

http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/app.html?id=20