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As you can see I’m toying around with the android SDK. I guess this will be my first 20 percent project here at Google.
So far I’m impressed with the state of the SDK. There is a ton of documentation and up to now everything worked at once.
I have a couple of ideas I would like to try on android but unfortunately all of them involve bluetooth and there is no bluetooth support for the emulator (yet?).
If you have a great idea you would like to see as an app for your next cellphone, just leave me a comment or implement it on your own 
Take a picture of a product’s bar code and show a price research in places near where I am. How ’bout that? I know there had been attempts to have such thing but apparently they never got popular or functional enough.
I would like the ability to call other people and talk to them
( For everything else I would like another gizmo)
@Sergio: nice idea. it’s not easy but I guess it’s doable. Scanning the bar code should work even with a embedded cpu. Online price research is easy. But I don’t know if it’s already possible to find prices for brick and mortar stores in your area.
@loonix: I don’t agree with the everything. I don’t think that a cellphone can replace all other gizmos, e.g. I will always use my digital camera to take holiday pictures. But for the last few years I was looking for a device to replace my beloved Palm V. A Android Device which I can program in Java looks like a great candidate.
if we could get Jruby running on Android, there are some ruby projects that can read barcodes, on rubyforge:
http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=barcode
if Jruby works on android, it will be a very big plus for us ruby programmers…
Cheers.
Yes, I would love to work with Ruby on Android, too. I ran into some problems (more) and noticed that I need to start with a smaller project because there were too many things I didn’t know about Android yet. I guess it will take a few weeks until I can continue working on it. But it’s not forgotten…