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Google Android Lab Day world wide schedule released

Google just published its world wide Android Lab Day event.
The Android Advocates are going on a world tour, traveling to locations all
around the globe! Hear about the state of the Android platform, get hands-on with the latest version of the SDK, meet like-minded Android engineers, play with the latest Android devices, test your apps, and ask your questions directly to Android team members.
Upcoming Sessions

North America

Date Location Time * Status
Feb. 4, 2010 Austin, Texas, USA 5pm-9pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 8, 2010 Seattle, Washington, USA 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 8, 2010 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 9, 2010 Washington D.C., USA 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 10, 2010 Mountain View, California, USA 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 11, 2010 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 10am-2pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 12, 2010 New York, New York, USA 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!

Europe

Date Location Time * Status
Feb. 2, 2010 London, UK 9am-1pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 8, 2010 Paris, France 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 10, 2010 Berlin, Germany 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 12, 2010 Zurich, Switzerland 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!
Feb. 13, 2010 Madrid, Spain 2pm-6pm Open! Register Now!

Asia

Date Location Time * Status
Feb. 28, 2010 Singapore TBD Open! Register Now!
March 3, 2010 Taipei, Taiwan TBD Open! Register Now!
March 4, 2010 Hong Kong TBD Open! Register Now!


* Exact times are subject to change. visit official Google site for more information:
http://sites.google.com/site/androiddevlabs/home

January 23, 2010 Posted by | Android Development, Android Meetup, Android News, Silicon Valley Android Meetup | , , , | Leave a Comment

Silicon Valley Android Developers Favorite Android Apps 2009 Winners full list

Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup Announced winners of 2009 Favorite Apps last week. (Source http://www.android-anroid.net) Here is the full list:

Winner: Pro Paint Camera by Popcrowd Software
Pro Paint Camera is a replacement for the stock Android camera app. It adds features such as: 4 filters, 2 whitebalances, autofocus, clipart, text fonts, 6 crazy photo effects & full photo editor
Popcrowd Software
http://www.popcrowd.com
http://twitter.com/popcrowd

Second Place: Geogad Tours by Geogad Inc
Explore the world with video and audio clips. Share your customized tours, and upload video tour stops from your phone.
Company: Geogad, Inc.
Web site: http://www.geogad.com
Info on Geogad’s Android app: http://www.geogad.com/geogad/android
Download link: http://market.android.com/search?q=pname:com.geogad
Twitter: @geogad
Contact: Georgi Dagnall

Third Place: ShapeWriter by Dr. Shumin Zhai
ShapeWriter is a revolutionary text and commands input method for touchscreen mobile devices. To enter text the user simply draws an approximate stroke gesture from letter to letter on a touch keyboard and lifts up to complete the word. The resulting trace is recognized as the intended word. For example a stroke approximately tracing F-U-N results in “fun”. Due to statistical pattern recognition, ShapeWriter’s intelligent algorithm is inherently error tolerant. Other close matches to the user’s gesture are presented in a suggestion bar (demo @ http://j.mp/4GzbzE).
More information can be found at http://www.shapewriter.com I’d be happy to write up more if you need.

Fourth Place: Third PlaceRxdigita by Ivan Tarasov & Siamak Ashrafi (Ash)
Rxdigita connects with Google Health to set cyclic alarms
on medications and racks when medications are taken or if medications
are repeatedly missed an emergency contact is notified.
URL: www.rxdigtia.com

Fifth Place: 8footprints by Apofa
If your life was a treasure map, what would it look like? 8 Footprints enables the modern voyager to map their life’s quest across the globe.See the trail that walks with you wherever you go during all of life’s experiences. Now your footprints can be integrated with twitter as well.
website: www.8footprints.com
download link: avaliable on android market
contact person: Nelson To

The rewards are sponsored by GetJar (http://getJar.com)

December 23, 2009 Posted by | android, Android Development, Android Meetup, Android News | , , , , | Leave a Comment

Dazzboard enables Android developers to manage mobile content

Met with CEO of Linkotec Tuesday and he showed me a very intereting product – Dazzboard, whcih manage manage content for Android device. He is try to find out how Android developers may utilize it. Bellow is more information about this platform.

Dazzboard is a Webtop application that offers seamless media management and distribution for Portable Devices. Dazzboard is the first universal media management webtop application that streamlines user data management between online and portable devices. With instant device recognition technology, dazzboard connects users’ portable device photos, images, video, music and more with multiple social media networks and vice versa.  With Dazzboard users can simply  drop their favorite videos from YouTube onto a mobile device or upload vacation photos and videos directly from the device to Flickr or Facebook without installing a single proprietary device application.

 Why Dazzboard Android Suite ?

  • No PC application currently for Android
  • No simple way to manage PC to Device media
  • No content back up on PC
  • No easy way to transfer rich media large files

 Value proposition to Android Users: beyond iTunes experience

  • PC content Sync: Necessary user experience when you start using the phone

- My Music /video from my library to Android phone.

  • Content / Device backup

- My Apps, my personal data

  • Share in full quality for Social Networks (add to your Twitter feed)

- Mobile video to YouTube made simple

- Pictures to Picasa / Facebook / Flickr, with one click experience

  • iGoogle Gadget application for sharing my content from device in iGoogle to my social networks

 Value proposition to Android developers / users

  • Android Device manager can be integrated to partner site

-          for device management, content distribution

  • Full support for Android devices in media management and Social Network uploads

-          Brings Android devices /users to partner websites

  • Devices can be recognized / identified by serial number for better customer service

-          linked to phone numbers on database

-          My Android is my VIP card to the service

Tray Dazzboard yourself at:

http://www.dazzboard.com/en/invites/svandroid/

June 25, 2009 Posted by | Android Development, Android News | , | 1 Comment

Pitch your Android application or business idea at SV Android meetup

I just added a session at May 26 Silicon Valley Android Developers Meetup for people who has good Android application ideas or Android business ideas to pitch for 3-5 minutess. And the Android fans can give feedback.

http://meetup.com/SVAndroid

May 21, 2009 Posted by | android, Android Development, Android News | , , | Leave a Comment

Come to Google at June 10 for Android 1.5

AtJjune 10th,   The Silicon Valley Android Developer Meetup will collaborate with Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (http://www.meetup.com…) to co-host Android platform event at Googleplex.

This part of series of effort Google put to expand its effort in helping the development community to speedup on Google Android 1.5 platform.

More info: http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-android/calendar/10222125/

May 10, 2009 Posted by | Android 1.5, Android Development | , , | 1 Comment

Android VS. IPhone Talk at Fountain Blue @ May 11

At the upcoming event hosted by Fountainblue at May 11, Mobile Applications: Hot Technologies and Business Models, I am invited to compare IPhone 3.0 and Android 1.5, from develoment, marketing, and business models.

My twitter – http://twitter.com/david_cao

For more detail of registration, go to:

http://www.fountainblue.biz/hightech.html

May 6, 2009 Posted by | android, Android 1.5, Android Development, Android iPhone | , , , , | Leave a Comment

Welcome to My Android Development Blog

This is my fist post. It is a start to put down my thoughts, ideas related Android 15. development. Also plan to put together the news get from Google IO into this blog.

May 4, 2009 Posted by | android, Android Development | , , , | Leave a Comment

   

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