Fri
7
Dec '07
First glance at android
by Frank Spychalski filed under google, android, Work

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 :-)


3 Responses to “First glance at android”

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    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.

    Sergio (December 8th, 2007 at 02:48)
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    I would like the ability to call other people and talk to them :P
    ( For everything else I would like another gizmo)

    loonix (December 8th, 2007 at 17:40)
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    @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.

    Frank Spychalski (December 9th, 2007 at 23:53)

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