One of my students at ITP is working on a mobile application for the Android platform that will be used under duress and in generally stressful conditions. These situations might include documenting children at a refugee camp, capturing medical information in a remote clinic, or identifying victims after a national disaster.
I’d like to use this [...]
Homework for Week 5
Catch up on previous weeks’ readings and homework that you haven’t turned in yet
Continue to develop and plan your cause with a target on being able to concisely explain it for your midterm and the next Speed Geek!
Review the content presented in class and decide on the approach (server vs client or [...]
Here are the captured whiteboard brainstorms, audio (first hour only due to technical glitches) and my slides for the week 1 class of ITP2800. All of this content is hosted and available on http://drop.io/itp2800, with class bookmarks and homework reading assignments posted at http://delicious.com/nathanialfreitas/itp2800+week1. Week 1 homework assignments are listed at the end of [...]
I wrote these up quickly for a friend who needed some bullet points for a proposal, and so I thought I’d just share them here, as well. Please comment with your own experiences with Android #WINs and #FAILs.
Development SDK is free, open-source and officially supported for Windows, Linux and Mac OS (iPhone is Mac OS [...]
Still some work to do, cleanup and some better javadocs, but if you are looking for Android code to help you record audio, take photos, get GPS location, upload via HTTP and more, then this is the project for you.
Git Code Repository (source access and zip/gzip download): http://github.com/natdefreitas/georeport-android
Slide overview download: http://olivercoady.s3.amazonaws.com/AndroidAdvancedGReporter030909a.pdf
Here’s the slides I presented [...]
In recent months, I’ve been carrying around a Peek email device, or what I call the “One Hundred Dollar Blackberry”. It is a great piece of hardware, made by an honest-to-goodness New York City hardware company (not many of those!). I am also a big fan because I think their simple features and price point [...]
Email to SMS Technique
Originally uploaded by nathanialfreitas
I recently had someone ask about sending video download links to mobile phones. Mux does this using the “your phone number”@”your mobile carrier”.com approach, otherwise known as the SMTP Email Gateways.
Every carrier has a different way to do this, with different limitations, but it does essentially work, and as [...]
Droid Draw Android UI Builder Tool
Originally uploaded by nathanialfreitas
Droid Draw (available at www.droiddraw.org) is a great tool for rapid prototyping of Google Android user interfaces. While the XML schema that underlies the Android resource description is not *that* complicated, it is good to see that fairly robust drag and drop UI tools are coming along [...]