Comments on: First glance at Android

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:15:57 +0000

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…

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:02:47 +0000

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.

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:53:03 +0000

@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.

By: loonix

loonix — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:40:11 +0000

I would like the ability to call other people and talk to them
( For everything else I would like another gizmo)

By: Sergio

Sergio — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:48:13 +0000

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.