Weekly Android Applications 16/12/2007

Posted on 16 December 2007 by Hatem Ben Yacoub

After the second Android SDK update, here is another collection of Android applications. Some of the missing features in Android are really limiting developers from being more creative. For example, until today there is no API for Bluetooth, Camera, and GPS. The reason why many developers have to deal with the existent part of Android only until all features will be available.

Dodge Ball for Android

Ryo Ichinose have written Dodge Ball for Android, a fun game where you have to move a spaceship and avoiding falling balls from the sky. Code source and video demo are available.

DodgeBall game for Android

CameraSource, Live Camera Previews in Android

While there is no camera emulation currently available for Android, here is the first unofficial solution provided by Tom Gibara to work with local and remote camera sources. The code is public domain and consists of four classes CameraSource, GenuineCamera, RemoteCamera and WebcamBroadcaster. This is more experiment than real application but CameraSource is very useful to get camera emulation working on Android platform.

Android Camera Source

Android Feed Reader

To follow Android news and your favorite blogs, here is the second RSS/Atom feed reader for the Android platform. Currently the project came with the very basic features of an RSS reader, and a basic UI … There is a lot of To-dos, but it’s already a good start. AFR uses the ROME + JDOM libraries for parsing feeds, and the java.beans module from Apache Harmony, which is required by ROME.

Android Feed Reader

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