Hello Everyone,
If you were not aware, there is going to be an Android conference coming up in October. The tickets are free, so hurry up and get your ticket before they are all gone!
You can get more details about the event by visiting:
Thanks to every who came out to the last Ottawa Android meeting, it was quite interesting.
We had a presentation from Chris Saunders who is working on a simple image caching framework to make getting images into your views easier as well as to store downloaded images on disk to reduce bandwidth usage. The code is not quite ready yet, but should be out soon.
BradS4 (Sorry, I forgot your last name) did a presentation on an extremely awesome persistence framework he’s working on for Android. It’s inspired by the Hibernate persistence framework and will hopefully get us all away from having to write that boilerplate code that we’ve all been doing for our applications. This should also be coming out soon, so be sure to get a copy of the source once you have it and use it!
The next meeting will be on the 15th of September.
See you then!
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Google releases Voice Actions for Android
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We all remember the Google I/O keynote video where some cool features were unveiled. It seemed like most of those features would only come in the next version of Android (Gingerbread). Well it seems like Google had a small surprise on Thursday.
Google held a small press conference to announce a new application. The application basically replaces the voice to text functionality inside your phone and adds and awesome new feature called Voice Actions. The interface and functionality seems identical to what was show in the Google I/O keynote back in May.
A little tip for those who didn’t know: you can bring up voice to text (and now voice actions) almost anywhere, by pressing and holding the search button on the phone.
The only downside is that you need Android 2.2 (Froyo) installed to be able to use this.
android · apps · Froyo · Gingerbread · Google I/O
There are two interesting Android blog posts about a new licensing/copy protection system for apps. Check it out.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/licensing-service-for-android.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/07/licensing-service-technology-highlights.html
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Here is a link to a presentation at this years OSCON about UI Design for the Android platform.
Enjoy!
