Archive for August, 2010

Open Source Android Apps for Developers: Android-google-voice-locations

Apps Description
Google Voice Locations adds location awareness to Google Voice. At present, Google Voice Locations allows phones to be enabled and disabled to ring based on location preferences. It was built on the Google Voice Java Library and the Source Code will be forthcoming. It uses the Enable/Disable functionality of Google Voice Java to allow location aware phone activation preferences to be set on Android.

The goal of Google Voice Java is to bring programmatic control of Google Voice to Java Developers. This includes Placing Calls, Sending SMS messages, and viewing Inbox, Voicemails etc. Developers are welcome to contribute to this Open Source project.

Project Home
http://code.google.com/p/android-google-voice-locations/

Project owners
Techventus

Version
0.2.9

Downloads
http://code.google.com/p/android-google-voice-locations/downloads/list

Source Code
# Non-members may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP.
svn checkout http://android-google-voice-locations.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ android-google-voice-locations-read-only

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Open Source Android Apps for Developers: AndTweet

Apps Description
AndTweet is an Light-weight Android Twitter client, which s being designed to be a light-weight open Twitter alternative for Android. Optimized for fast operation using both Touch and Keyboard. Finger-friendly interface that allows the user to quickly navigate tweets and respond to them with just the touch of a finger. AndTweet is an open project:

* Open for user’s ideas. Please share your ideas with community and vote for implementation of the best ideas at the AndTweet Ideas Forum.
* Open Source, open for contributing developers. If you’re a developer, AndTweet project will allow you to implement easily your unique Twitter client features, because you can build on the working code. Please read the DeveloperFAQ page for more info.
* Multilingual, translated into 3 languages already (English, German, Russian). New translations are welcomed!

Current Features
* oAuth authentication
* Twitter username auto-completion
* Posting replies, retweets, and updates
* Tweet information
* Application themes
* Direct Messages
* Search tweets for users and text
* Notifications
* Store position in timeline
* Automatic updates
* Time to keep tweets
* Basic widget

Planned Features
* Follow/unfollow users
* Block/unblock users
* Linking of @ usernames in text
* Proper retweet support
* Hashtag auto-expansion
* Highlight replies in timeline
* User avatars
* Twitpic support

Project Home
http://code.google.com/p/andtweet/

http://andtweet.com/

Project owners
torgny.b…@gmail.com, yvolk1

Version
1.0.4

Downloads
http://code.google.com/p/andtweet/downloads/list

Source Code
http://code.google.com/p/andtweet/source/checkout

Command-line access

Get a local copy of the andtweet repository with this command:
hg clone https://andtweet.googlecode.com/hg/ andtweet
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Open Source Android Apps for Developers: Android-wifi-tether

Apps Description
Android-wifi-tether (Wireless Tether for Root Users) is an opensource Android app which enables tethering (via wifi and bluetooth) for “rooted” handsets running android (such as the Android DevPhone 1). Clients (your laptop for example) can connect via wifi (ad-hoc mode) or bluetooth and get access to the internet using the 3G, 2G mobile connection or (in case you are using bluetooth) the wifi connection which is established by the handset. This application requires a “rooted”-device and a custom-kernel which supports netfilter (iptables)!

Project Home
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

Project owners
harald.mue, ulfada, bbuxton

Version
2.0.5

Downloads
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list

Source Code
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/source/checkout

# Non-members may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP.
svn checkout http://android-wifi-tether.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ android-wifi-tether-read-only
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Open Source Android Apps for Developers: opensudoku-android

Apps Description
OpenSudoku (Sudoku for android) is a simple open source sudoku game. It’s designed to be controlled both by finger and keyboard. It’s preloaded with 90 puzzles in 3 difficulty levels, more puzzles can be downloaded from the web and it also allows user to enter their own puzzles.

OpenSudoku can now open several sudoku file formats directly from web. Just click any link below and folder with puzzles will be downloaded and imported directly into the OpenSudoku. These puzzles were generated by gnome-sudoku – same generator was used to create original puzzles in game. Please note that these puzzles are rather easy.

Project Home
http://code.google.com/p/opensudoku-android/

Project owners
romario333

Version
1.1.1

Downloads
http://code.google.com/p/opensudoku-android/downloads/list

User can install OpenSudoku via Android Market.

Source Code
http://code.google.com/p/opensudoku-android/wiki/SourceCode?tm=4

# Non-members may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP.
svn checkout http://opensudoku-android.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ opensudoku-android-read-only
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Open Source Android Apps for Developers: Android-x86 Project

Apps Description
Android-x86 Project, which aims “Porting Android to x86″ or “Run Android on Your PC”. It is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as “patch hosting for android x86 support”. The original plan is to host different patches for android x86 support from open source community. A few months after the owner created the project, they found out that they could do much more than just hosting patches. So they decide to fork their code base that will provide android x86 support on different x86 platforms, and set up a git server to host it. To reflect this major change, they create this new project.

The following features are available in the latest test build.

* Kernel 2.6.29 or 2.6.32, KMS enable
* Wifi support with GUI
* Ethernet configuration GUI
* Better disk installer
* Power Suspend/resume (S3 mode)
* Battery Status
* Software mouse cursor
* Mouse wheel
* Support netbook native resolution
* Audio (ALSA)
* V4l2 Camera support
* External monitor support
* External storage auto mount support
* Support external keyboard
* Proxy settings
* Debug mode with busybox
* Bluetooth

Project Home
http://www.android-x86.org/
http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/

Project owners
beyounn, cwhuang01, cwhu…@android-x86.org, corentin.chary

Version
1.6

Downloads
http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list

Source Code
http://www.android-x86.org/getsourcecode
Getting Android-x86 source code

First, follow this page to configure your build environment. Then

$ mkdir android-x86
$ cd android-x86
$ repo init -u git://git.android-x86.org/manifest.git -b $branch
$ repo sync
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Open Source Android Apps for Developers: chrometophone

Apps Description
Google Chrome to Phone Extension is a project consisting of a Chrome Extension, Android App, and supporting AppEngine server that enables users to send links from their Chrome desktop browser to their Android device using Android’s Cloud to Device Messaging service.

Chrome to Phone is now available on Chrome Extension Gallery and Android Market. Please uninstall the pre-release version and install the officially launched version from Gallery / Market for latest bug fixes and features.

Features:

* Send links to browser
* Google Maps links launch the Google Maps app.
* YouTube links launch the YouTube app.
* Selecting phone numbers in Web pages, launches the dialer with the number pre-populated.
* Selected text populates the Android clipboard (long-press on text boxes to get paste option).

Note: Android 2.2 required. Chrome to Phone is powered by the Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, which requires Android 2.2 or later.

Project Home
http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/

Project owners
costin, deba…@android.com, burke.davey

Version
1.7

Apk Downloads
http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/downloads/list

Source Code
Use this command to anonymously check out the latest project source code:
# Non-members may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP.
svn checkout http://chrometophone.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ chrometophone-read-only

Chrome to Phone for Android 2.2 (Froyo) Video
Following is Chrome to Phone for Android 2.2 (Froyo) Video From Youtube:
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