We are starting this week with a new selection of new Android applications. This week highlighted an RPN Calculator, Crossword game, Android VNC, City Audioguides, and a Social rating system for your contacts and locations.

Android RPN Calculator

Android RPN Calculator is an experimental application which aims to implement an RPN-based calculator. Read the definition of RPN before using the calculator if you don’t it, otherwise you might find it very confusing to use. Currently many buttons still not implemented but many already working. So you can get the apk and give it a try.

Website : http://code.google.com/p/android-rpn-calculator/

Android Crossword game

Arensus Crossword Player is the name of a new fun game which let you solve crosswords on Android. You can download crosswords from the internet using simply Android browser, then you use Crossword Player for the game itself. There are options to reveal a letter, word, or the entire crossword, and player can save Scale factor, Top/left position of view, Played time, Current crossword field, Current direction, All letters for each field, All checked status of each field, and All revealed status of each field. Arensus Crossword Player is one of the applications that are participating in the Android Challenge.

Website : http://oxonom.com/node/10

KudoStar, social rating system

KudoStar is a mobile social rating system that connects your contacts and favorite locations. People and places accumulate positive and negative Kudostars (KudoScore), with relevant sound, images, and video while keeping the user interface intuitive and simple to use. KudoStar then uses this information and ties it in with not only other Android phones but also your social networking sites. KudoStar will also utilize Facebook’s F8 and Google’s opensocial platforms to virally spread the collected data to a multitude of users. Tying Google Maps, and v:social’s media platforms KudoStar will allow a vast array of viewing options for the data that is collected.

Website : http://www.kudostar.com/

Android VNC

The aim of this project is to make testing of Android platform more easy on real handsets with full screen VNC client running. The current test framework is ideally suited for Windows Mobile based handsets running .NET VNC Viewer. So if you see somewhere a windows mobile phone using Android, you are probably seeing the VNC client running in fullscreen !

Website : http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc/

Android City Audioguides

City Audioguides is aiming to use android framework positioning and other technologies to improve your travelling experiences delivering audio content relative to your current physical location. Bringing museum-like audioguides to a larger scope. The application is built on top of the android-rss project and licenced under GNU General Public License v2.

Website : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pounamu/

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.

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 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.