Here is a little gimmick to KEEP on your emulator/phone, it is the well-known Fortune “game” for Android.

Release notes:

This open-source project started by me (pjv) is actually quite complete and working already. Grab cookie files of the net and let Android’s Fortune show them to you for distraction. Several options exist to receive notifications of new cookies at several time moments. Also some settings to make the cookies easily readable. Finally an automated version checker (using tomgibara’s veecheck) is included so you’ll be able to catch up with the latest features. The current state is beta and might need some usability improvement here and there but the general experience should be quite smooth. To be able to do anything useful you can get the sample cookie file “work” that is included, put it on the phone, and set the preferences accordingly.

http://www.anddev.org/androids_fortune-t3028.html

xMemphisx got bored the other day and thought to do something with Android.Here comes the entire US Constitution!

It’s basically a splash screen, followed by a listview (Articles, Signatories, Amendments), which is followed up by information of each of the afore mentioned. It’s also a pretty decent example code for someone trying to learn to use Android.

http://www.anddev.org/united_states_constitution_in_your_pocket-t3184.html

OpenIntents News Reader is an RSS feed reader for Android.

http://www.openintents.org/en/node/36

Amazed is an open-sourced accelerometer game written for the apps-for-android project.

The aim is to navigate a white marble through a maze to the exit, signified by the light blue tiles. Make sure you avoid the black “void” or you will die.

http://www.anddev.org/amazed_accelerometer_demo_game-t3222.html

Puzzles is a port of Simon Tatham’s portable puzzle collection.

http://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/

handyCalc is a calculator for the Android platform.

Release notes:

handyCalc 0.31 released with no new features but some bugs fixed and tiny improvements.

This version is running on 1.0 SDK.

download at http://www.mediafire.com/file/ynegllzwmji/handycalc.apk

http://handycalc.wordpress.com/

Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications.

Follow the link blow for more.

http://source.android.com/

This is a port of the KDE game “knetwalk”, by Andi Peredri, Thomas Nagy, and Reinhold Kainhofer. Ported to Android by Ian Cameron Smith (headstay); released under GPL. Includes MTRandom by David Beaumont, released under LGPL.

The player is given a network diagram with the parts of the network randomly rotated; he/she must rotate them to connect all the terminals to the server.

Scrambled Net detects the screen size of the device it’s running in, and configures the board appropriately. This makes the game a bit easier on smaller phones — we don’t want to make the cells too small, because it’s difficult to tap on a tiny cell on a phone’s touchscreen. Portrait and landscape phones are handled automatically.

Tile rotation is smoothly animated; highlighted tiles show the user’s progress.

The game is designed to be usable with 12-key keypad or QWERTY keypad, or by tapping the screen.

The game has 5 difficulty levels; the first 3 use different board sizes; then wrap-around is introduced for “Master” level; then “Insane” level adds invisible cells. In case you’re wondering, yes, I can solve “Insane” puzzles, usually in 10-12 minutes on a large (HVGA) phone.

http://code.google.com/p/netscramble/

Google announced the release of the new Android 1.0 SDK.

Quotes:

Yes, that means we’re officially at 1.0. Of course the SDK won’t remain static—we’ll keep improving the tools by adding features and fixing bugs. But now developers can rely on the APIs in the SDK, and can update their applications to run on Android 1.0-compatible devices. The Android Market beta will also launch with the T-Mobile G1, providing developers an easy and open way to distribute their applications on that and later devices. I’ve already seen a lot of applications that have me stoked, and I can’t wait to see things really come together as developers cross that final mile to prepare their applications for Android 1.0.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/09/announcing-android-10-sdk-release-1.html

ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode reader library implemented in Java. Goal is to support decoding of QR Codes, Data Matrix, and the UPC family of 1D barcodes.

This library is divided into several components of interest:

core: core decoding library, and the main component of the entire project
javame: JavaME client
javase: J2SE-specific client code
android: Android client (M5 SDK)
rim: RIM/Blackberry-specific client build
iphone: iPhone client + port to Objective C / C++ (QR code only)
zxingorg: The source behind zxing.org/w
bug: Client for BugLabs’s BUG

http://code.google.com/p/zxing/