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OpenIntents v0.1.4 (Android misc)

Imagine your Android “cookbook” application tells you to buy eggs, ginger, and cardamom, your “birthday reminder” application suggests you to buy a blue tulip (for a friend who loves the color blue), and your computer at home notifies your mobile phone that the color cartridge of your printer is almost empty. Would you like to receive three notifications by three different programs next time you are close to a supermarket? Or rather have them all store that information in your central shopping list? (by the way, your internet auction application that watches the central shopping list has already found an interesting offer for that blue tulip…)

Imagine you have to specify for a handful of programs (the favorite “ring-tone selector” application, your “answering machine”, your “smart to-do list”, your “calendar”, your “work time log”, …) where your “home”, your “office”, “gym”, “music school”, etc. is located by specifying the latitude and longitude or the corresponding street address for each of these applications. Would you not rather have a central place for your favorite locations that all applications can easily share?

(Many more ideas can be found on our list of ideas)

Keep your one great idea a secret that could make you win the Android Developer Challenge, but share those obvious and common ideas that you encounter while implementing and that you think could be used in many other applications as well. We will develop the most-required components together (e.g. a central shopping list), so you can concentrate on implementing your core idea (e.g. the weight-watching cookbook) while having interoperability with many other great OpenIntents applications built in right from the start.

Join this project if you have great ideas to share or if you are a good developer and look for a low-risk project.

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

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DroidDraw r1b8 (Android misc)

DroidDraw is a graphical user interface (GUI) builder for the Android platform.

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

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Logoid v0.3 (Androind misc)

How many times have you been sitting on a train, an airplane, or been on a long car trip, and just been itching to get coding? With Logoid, you can quench your thirst for programming, expel your boredom and produce fantastic works of art, all on your mobile phone!

Logoid is a Logo interpreter for Android. It can’t do everything other interpreters can do, but it can do some pretty good stuff.

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

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Positron v0.8 (Alpha) (Android Application misc)

Android instrumentations are powerful tools for automating android applications and make a nice fit for automated acceptance testing.

Positron provides an instrumentation and some support classes to help writing acceptance tests. It is provided as a jar that gets bundled with your application.

Right now acceptance tests are written in junit. Support for running scripts from resources is planned…

http://code.google.com/p/android-positron/

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DroidDraw r1b7 (Android misc)

DroidDraw is a graphical user interface (GUI) builder for the Android platform.

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

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OpenIntents v0.1.3 (Android misc)

Imagine your Android “cookbook” application tells you to buy eggs, ginger, and cardamom, your “birthday reminder” application suggests you to buy a blue tulip (for a friend who loves the color blue), and your computer at home notifies your mobile phone that the color cartridge of your printer is almost empty. Would you like to receive three notifications by three different programs next time you are close to a supermarket? Or rather have them all store that information in your central shopping list? (by the way, your internet auction application that watches the central shopping list has already found an interesting offer for that blue tulip…)

Imagine you have to specify for a handful of programs (the favorite “ring-tone selector” application, your “answering machine”, your “smart to-do list”, your “calendar”, your “work time log”, …) where your “home”, your “office”, “gym”, “music school”, etc. is located by specifying the latitude and longitude or the corresponding street address for each of these applications. Would you not rather have a central place for your favorite locations that all applications can easily share?

(Many more ideas can be found on our list of ideas)

Keep your one great idea a secret that could make you win the Android Developer Challenge, but share those obvious and common ideas that you encounter while implementing and that you think could be used in many other applications as well. We will develop the most-required components together (e.g. a central shopping list), so you can concentrate on implementing your core idea (e.g. the weight-watching cookbook) while having interoperability with many other great OpenIntents applications built in right from the start.

Join this project if you have great ideas to share or if you are a good developer and look for a low-risk project.

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

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Parallel Kingdom WIP (Android Game)

Parallel Kingdom is an online medieval role playing game crammed into a cell phone. Parallel Kingdom places the virtual world on top of the real world using the GPS inside your phone. Attack, dance, hug or team up with anyone around you. Setup trade routes, craft items or even show your dominance by creating your own kingdom.

Parallel Kingdom will be launched globally soon after the first android phones are released later in 2008. If you are already interested, the creators are seeking for beta testers: http://www.parallelkingdom.com/beta.shtml

http://www.parallelkingdom.com/

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Android SDK vm5-rc14 (Android misc)

The guys at Google released an updated version of their Android SDK.

The following Known Issues from m3-rc20 have been resolved:

917572: The activityCreator created incorrect IntelliJ scripts
917465: Unanswered incoming calls placed from the emulator console will result in an unfinished call UI if you press the call back button
917247: dmtracedump and traceview tools are not available in the SDK
912168: Extremely rapid or prolonged scrolling in the Maps application or MapsView will result in application errors
905852: adb emits warnings about deprecated API use on Mac OS X 10.5
905242: The Run dialog sometimes failed to show the Android Launcher
901122: The focus ring in the browser is sometimes incorrect
896274: On Windows, the emulator sometimes starts off-screen
778432: Icons for newly installed applications do not display

http://code.google.com/android/

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OpenIntents v0.1.2 (Android misc)

Imagine your Android “cookbook” application tells you to buy eggs, ginger, and cardamom, your “birthday reminder” application suggests you to buy a blue tulip (for a friend who loves the color blue), and your computer at home notifies your mobile phone that the color cartridge of your printer is almost empty. Would you like to receive three notifications by three different programs next time you are close to a supermarket? Or rather have them all store that information in your central shopping list? (by the way, your internet auction application that watches the central shopping list has already found an interesting offer for that blue tulip…)

Imagine you have to specify for a handful of programs (the favorite “ring-tone selector” application, your “answering machine”, your “smart to-do list”, your “calendar”, your “work time log”, …) where your “home”, your “office”, “gym”, “music school”, etc. is located by specifying the latitude and longitude or the corresponding street address for each of these applications. Would you not rather have a central place for your favorite locations that all applications can easily share?

(Many more ideas can be found on our list of ideas)

Keep your one great idea a secret that could make you win the Android Developer Challenge, but share those obvious and common ideas that you encounter while implementing and that you think could be used in many other applications as well. We will develop the most-required components together (e.g. a central shopping list), so you can concentrate on implementing your core idea (e.g. the weight-watching cookbook) while having interoperability with many other great OpenIntents applications built in right from the start.

Join this project if you have great ideas to share or if you are a good developer and look for a low-risk project.

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

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DroidDraw r1b5 (Android misc)

DroidDraw is a graphical user interface (GUI) builder for the Android platform.

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

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