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Pocket Journey is the mobile application for delivery of, and the marketplace for, high quality, location-specific multimedia. Whether you have 2 minutes or 2 hours, you can learn about the topics that interest you most; history and folklore, sports and comedy, politics and geology, film and art…. the locations and topics are virtually unlimited and delivered instantly. Explore your hometown, national parks, vacation hotspots, off-the-beaten track – anywhere you go. Click, listen, learn – a world of knowledge in your pocket.

Android’s high-level mapping interface enables Pocket Journey to overlay sophisticated layers and multimedia geoclips while maintaining a high level of performance and usability.

Android’s multimedia infrastructure is the cornerstone of Pocket Journey’s ability to rapidly stream and display multimedia content to users in the compressed format best suited to the user’s mobile experience.

Pocket Journey uses Android’s high-level drawing framework to create an application with effective visual guides that anyone can just “pick up and use”.

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Piggyback improves and brings simplicity to carpooling by providing several benefits over traditional systems such as real-time or planned trip management with automated and secure transactions between drivers and passengers after accurate ride-matching. As a driver, simply input your destination and number of available seats and you’ll be notified when passengers have been found, along with information such as total time, detour length, and savings amount. You are then free to accept or reject those users. On the other hand, passengers will visualize up to ten drivers to choose from, according to their current location and destination, trip price and ratings.

Passengers waiting for pickup can identify their driver simply by visualizing the car’s position, which is updated regularly, and the map zooms in as the car gets closer to the passenger. To further improve identification, the photo and license plate number are also displayed. After Piggyback has calculated routes, drivers will be able to rely on their GPS and Maps API for guidance to pickup locations.

Passengers and Drivers don’t have to argue over the price of each ride since everything is automatically calculated thanks to our algorithm, while financial transactions are processed monthly through the secure platform Paypal.

A system of ratings has also been implemented which ensures that unreliable individuals are evicted from the pool of users. Drivers and passengers rate each other on various criteria such as punctuality, car cleanliness, driving abilities, and “empathy factor”.

Authors: Christophe Petit Sebastien Petit
Additional Contributors: Jean-Micher Theriault, Francois Gibold, Raphael Arzberger

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Phonebook 2.0 is a secure, contextual and social mobile address book. Inspired by instant messaging, social networking and live streaming applications, it combines all three into an easy to use, all-in one mobile application. With Phonebook 2.0, contacts are never lost in case of the phone being broken or stolen because they are automatically saved on a remote server. Phonebook 2.0 also creates a social experience helping users to share their mood, location and pictures with their friends.

Thanks to both Android’s location APIs and Maps API, PhoneBook 2.0 can help users share their locations with friends and display contacts’ locations on a Map.

PhoneBook 2.0 shows buddies presence straight from the contact list. It is using the GTalk API to display presence and create instant messaging sessions.

Thanks to Android’s low-level access, PhoneBook 2.0 can access the phone to make calls and display a threaded view of the call logs.

Author: Voxmobili
Additional Contributors: Florent Stroppa, Alain Chebassier, Christelle Chauveau

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Pebblebox allows the user to publish and discover local events, theater schedules, housing, restaurants, tourism guide, etc. It is also a social platform in neighborhoods. Users can read and write geo-blogs, share experiences, and make new friends. Furthermore, it supports transactions on mobile phones. Users can sell and buy products, purchase tickets, make reservations, etc.

Using Android Map API to overlay a variety of selectable items on the map to maximize the space usage gives users a straightforward view of the current location, and a sense of distances and directions.

PebbleBox uses the always-on data network connection provided by the Android platform to fetch user-interested content, make new posts, and complete transactions. It also uses a background service to improve the energy efficiency by finding the best network conditions for communication.

Authors: Yin Wang, Tao Jin
Additional Contributors: Guevara Noubir

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Maverick empowers users to instantly exchange text, location and multimedia content in the form of audio clips, photos and scribbles (drawings created on the mobile phone) with other Maverick clients and with desktop applications such as Google Talk or iChat. Maverick also employs a one-to-many way of communicating by enabling users to publish multimedia content to Google Blogger blogs. Posting multimedia content, the user’s location or just text is just as easy as sending an IM to a contact. Maverick enables users to receive notifications when new mail is received in their Gmail account. Gmail notifications emulate push e-mail functionality.

The Android Platform enables access to multimedia features of the phone. Maverick uses the audio recording and playback capabilities of the Android Platform to enable users to exchange audio clips in an instant fashion.

The touch screen support of Android opened the door for the creation of scribbles which are drawings that the user can create and share with their contacts. Scribbles can be created from scratch or by starting with an existing photo or another scribble.

Exchanging location information with contacts is possible due to the built-in geo location functionality in Android. The user can send its location to other contacts or post it to a blog.

Author: Virgil Dobjanschi

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Cooking Capsules streamlines the process of recipe planning and cooking with the “encapsulation” of a mini cooking show, tools for shopping, and a checklist containing each recipe step. Simply “Watch, Shop, and Make” using your phone as your fancy little cooking sidekick. You may also wish to “encapsulate” your own recipes into “Caplets” so you’ll never forget that magic ingredient or recipe step again. Share your favorite Cooking Capsules goods with your friends. See where they are now and what they’re craving. Feeling inspired? Post an impromptu dinner invitation. Cooking is social! Have fun.

Cooking Capsules utilizes Android for streaming and downloading of video content. The server makes extensive use of Google App Engine.

Android’s Location awareness is used to find your nearest markets and friends.

Alerting Android user of timely Cooking Capsules information using notifications.

Authors: Mary Ann Cotter, Muthu Ramadoss
Additional Contributors: Ivan Angelov, Tu Chengyuan, Travis Choma, Tom Gibara

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BreadCrumbz shows you real pictures of your route as you navigate, in addition to a map. Picture-based routes are easier to understand than map-based routes and are also more detailed, allowing you to do fun things like navigate indoors. You can easily create your own routes by “recording” them with your phone’s camera and GPS. When you’re done, simply email your route to friends or upload it to the web for the world to see with a single click.

BreadCrumbz uses the phone’s camera and GPS to take geo-tagged pictures of your route.

BreadCrumbz incorporates Android’s location APIs and Compass sensor to track your progress as you navigate.

Android’s Maps API is used to overlay route information on top of a map.

Author: Amos Yoffe

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Wertago is the mobile application nightlifers have been waiting for – a single application that shows you up-to-the-second information about what venues are hot, helps you coordinate plans with all your friends, lets you share content and influence the social scene, and enables you to connect with socialites all across the city. Nightlife will never be the same!

Wertago leverages Android’s powerful APIs to offer users rich content and functionality such as location-based search results.

Wertago uses Maps API to present gorgeous map views.

Wertago also uses Android’s APIs to present personalized profiles that enable social networking.

Authors: Kelvin Cheung, Teresa Ko, Peter Ree, Robert Sarvis, Douglas Yeung

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TuneWiki plays audio and video while displaying synchronized lyrics or translated lyrics. It allows for a music based Social Network where users share music information with friends and can sync and translate lyrics directly from their phone. TuneWiki displays music maps that show songs playing in the same GPS location and can navigate the map to any other location in the world to see what’s playing there. It also creates music charts that shows top songs in GPS location, or of any country or state. TuneWiki allows connectivity to Open-Social where users can share what they are playing in real time and allow friends to send feedback to the handset.

The music and video playback abilities for content found on the phone storage and Android’s “Always on” internet connected platform empowered a creation of a virtual library. The music and video can be local or “in the cloud” and play normally, it can be part of any play-list or ad-hoc, played from maps, charts, or recommendation.

GPS powered the localization reporting of music consumption. The Native Google Map shows what plays where and by whom, and the native YouTube player allows the virtual library (any music that played anywhere by anyone) to be shared via the maps and the community.

On the WebApp side, Google generously allowed us to hook their translation engine to translate lyrics on the fly. OpenSocial allows sharing across multiple social networks. Google Map allows sharing with Android-less friends.

Author: TuneWiki Inc.
Additional Contributors: Rani Cohen, Chad Kouse, Zach Hobbs, Jared Fleener, Amnon Sarig

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With Softrace people around the world meet online to compete against each other in different physical activities. Races can take place in real time, just like traditional races. In addition, races may be constructed from already completed races allowing users to select their opponents and race on demand. Location varies, some races run along predefined tracks while others allow you to run anywhere in the world, in any direction. It is like a computer game, except that you are not controlling the player, you are the player.

Android’s Location API is a necessary feature to sample the user’s location at a certain frequency. The data is used to figure out how far the user has moved since the race started, making it possible to calculate his or her position in the race.

The Maps API allows users to see where they are or where they are going during the race. The Maps API is also used when races are revisited in the Diary.

The Softrace Stats feature is taking advantage of Android’s SQLite database where completed races are stored. The database is queried to reveal interesting statistics about the user’s performance.

Authors: Staffan Kjellberg, Thomas Kjellberg

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