tdroid

This is the official list of winners, which were announced by Jason Chen in the official Android Developers Blog. When you enter a competition and don’t win one of the awards it is a disappointment, but looking over the award winners and their great quality is more than consoling!
Take a look at these apps, very cool!

• AndroidScan - Jeffrey Sharkey (anddev.org member)
• Beetaun - Sergey Gritsyuk and Dmitri Shipilov
• BioWallet - Jose Luis Huertas Fernandez
• BreadCrumbz - Amos Yoffe
• CallACab - Konrad Huebner and Henning Boeger
• City Slikkers - PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems
• Commandro - Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha
• Cooking Capsules - Mary Ann Cotter and Muthuselvam Ramadoss
• Diggin - Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin
• Dyno - Virachat Boondharigaputra
• e-ventr - Michael Zitzelsberger
• Eco2go - Taneem Talukdar, Gary Pong, Jeff Kao and Robert Lam
• Em-Radar - Jack Kwok
• fingerprint - Robert Mickle
• FreeFamilyWatch - Navee Technologies LLC
• goCart - Rylan Barnes
• GolfPlay - Inizziativa Networks
• gWalk - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Christian Klinger, Marko Modsching, Rene Scholze
• HandWx - Weathertop Consulting LLC
• IMEasy - Yan Shi
• Jigsaw - Mikhail Ksenzov
• JOYity - Zelfi AG
• LifeAware - Gregory Moore, Aaron L. Obrien, Jawad Akhtar
• Locale - Clare Bayley, Christina Wright, Jasper Lin, Carter Jernigan ~
• LReady Emergency Manager - Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen
• Marvin - Pontier Laurent
• Mobeedo - Sengaro GmbH
• Multiple Facets Instant Messenger - Virgil Dobjanschi
• MyCloset - Mamoru Tokashiki
• PedNav - RouteMe2 Technologies Inc.
• Phonebook 2.0 - Voxmobili
• PicSay - Eric Wijngaard
• PiggyBack - Christophe Petit and Sebastien Petit
• Pocket Journey - Anthony Stevens and Rosie Pongracz
• Rayfarla - Stephen Oldmeadow
• Safety Net - Michael DeJadon
• SocialMonster - Ben Siu-Lung Hui and Tommy Ng
• SplashPlay
• Sustain- Keeping Your Social Network Alive - Niraj Swami
• SynchroSpot - Shaun Terry
• Talkplay - Sung Suh Park
• Teradesk - José Augusto Athayde Ferrarini
• The Weather Channel for Android - The Weather Channel Interactive Inc.
• TuneWiki - TuneWiki Inc.
• Wikitude-the Mobile Travel Guide - Philipp Breuss
• Writing Pad - ShapeWriter Inc

If you modify your Android Applications and you do not see those changes making it down to your Android device you might suffer until your realize that making changes to your Android project in Eclipse does not nescessarily overwrite or update your App on the emulator.

The easiest way to keep your App fresh on the emulator is to use the ADB shell to blow away the .apk files and force a new build to get pushed to the emulator. To follow these steps you need Eclipse and the Emulator up and running.

http://tracks.tdroid.com
This tdroid domain is where we will store, manage, and display Android GPS track files and uploaded KML track files. Tracks are essentially sets of coordinates. KML files are the Google Earth XML format which may also include a wealth of other data about the Track or Path. Tracks.tdroid.com is basically an extension of a Word Press Blog installation. The XML parser brought me a much better understanding of the KML format as well. This is to be part of the Web service back-end that I intend to let any Tdroid user interact with. There is a whole user roles and administration piece to be done as well. Each user needs a admin login and a guest login. Also, initially there needs to be three access levels to web based viewing of uploaded GPS track files: Admin only, Admin and guest only, or Public.

Goggle map web application integration is a snap with the Google Maps APIs available for free. Go ahead and drag the map around, zoom, etc. Clickable placemarks too. No software to install, just a web browser that supports standard Javascript. Next is to parse KLM files on the fly with PHP….

GPS tracks showing up in m5 Android Emulator.

An important milestone for Tdroid application/service is being able to record, store, and view a GPS track on Android powered mobile devices. The Android emulator is fantastic, I just can’t wait to get an actual handset to play with. Since its an emulator and not an actual handset you can walk around with, you have to use a mock Location Provider.

After upgrading your SDK from m3-rc37a to m5-rc14 you might experience that your previously working android applications are not running anymore.

I found this post on anddev.org on fixing your AndroidManifest.xml-Problems which helped me out a lot.

Ar first, you will have to run the emulator with -wipe-data once, because there were internal changes.

There are several changes to the AndroidManifest.xml file that will hit you immediately when porting an application to M5 and will need to be updated. The most likely ones you will see are:

• The class= parameter throughout the AndroidManifest.xml file has been renamed, replace all instances of class= with android:name=.
• The android:value= parameters used throughout the AndroidManifest.xml file have been renamed, replace all android:value= occurrences with android:name=.
• The android:id= parameters used throughout the AndroidManifest.xml file have been renamed, replace all android:id= occurrences with android:name=.
• In <intent-filter>, the previous <type>, <scheme>, <authority> and <path> tags are now replaced with a single <data> tag and uses attributes android:mimeType, android:scheme, android:host and android:path to replace those tags respectively. A new attribute: android:port has been added as well. Without these changes, intent-filters will not work correctly.

So, for example in your M3 version of AndroidManifest.xml:

Would be replaced with this m5 syntax:

For more information or questions, I’ve been going to http:anddev.org

The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies including Google, is developing Android; the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. To help developers get started developing new applications, Google is providing developers an early look at the Android Software Development Kit.

The handsets are also on the way; TI recently has presented some units at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona . The Android platform is open and freely available for developers to build useful applications for. It tightly integrates with other Google APIs and web services.

I have ideas that have been waiting for a platform like this to become available, one of those ideas is tdroid. Tdroid is a GPS tracking application for the Android platform - with a twist. Stay tuned !