One of the ones that stands out is maybe put a SIP/VOIP stack on top of JXTA-P2P.
What cool Android Projects are you guys and gals coming up with?
If you live where Twilio/Textmarks/etc already cover, it's just a fun hack, but in developing nations it could be a bigger deal. Current solutions require non-trivial setup (software + cell modem) and NGOs sometimes send technicians for a couple weeks to Africa just to set up the gateway. KalSMS (like any Android app) could be installed by simply scanning a barcode - and maintenance just means keeping the phone on, something non-techies easily do already.
Looking for beta testers, and anyone who might donate/sell me a Nexus One to develop on..
Would definitely love contributors - my Java sucks. Have tasks in the pipeline like async HTTP reqs, a request log view etc. Email me at niryariv@gmail.com and let's hack!
As far as a device to test on, I've been looking at pay as you go services and craigslist. There are some decent deals out there.
Do u find Nexus phones on CL/pay as you go? Pay as u go would be great.
Right now I am basically taking the crowd sourcing approach by asking people what their top N Favorite apps are. Once I get some more data, I intend to employ some "amazon-style" collective intelligence and create a recommendation engine.
I realize that there are other people working on this problem but to my knowledge no one has solved it yet;)
That said, I don't really need recommendations as to what to try, I just need something that doesn't present me with a zillion clearly crappy options (and this applies to Apple's too.. Stupid-compiled-pamphlet-of-information I'm looking at you). After eliminating those, there's not so much left in the Android Market that I can't go through it in a reasonable amount of time.
But if you want an interesting take on it, how about figuring out which people who are downloading the popular apps first, and tracking their behavior as a cohort. Use the trendsetters to predict the trends.
One way to look at this problem is to create a "Best Of" app list and keep it really clean.
I'll look into that ;)
I haven't quite gotten to building an app for making it easy to recommend apps yet but it's next on my list;)
Another important component to this would be to ask the user which apps they actually recommend as opposed to which ones they downloaded, used once and then just left on their phone.
Can the range be shortened even more than 150 miles?
Another feature I'm toying with is the ability to stitch together multiple images so you can pick any point in the country as the "center" of the image.
As for the radar range, there is all kinds of post processing that could be done to simulate shorter ranges, but the only images the NWS currently produces are either 124 or 248 nautical miles.
It's a fun project to get into Android with. I imagine that my pizza/date money income from the project is going to disappear now that Marco is working on Instapaper full-time (as he's probably working on an Android client).
If you can make your client work exceptionally well and fit the Android mentality, you have an opportunity to be fairly entrenched and beat out the official client - I wouldn't give up.
One thing Marco does well is think out every user interface decision and add polish to the product. If you don't do that, and he does release an Android client, that could kill your app's success pretty quickly. Polish is something Android is lacking pretty heavily, and we all notice it when it's there.
I think my app has polish, and it's slowly getting better, but most of it based on the official app adapted to Android UX patterns.
Either way, Marco is nice enough to allow third party clients and I've made more than I thought I would already.
I haven't look at it much yet, but you might have some luck with the new Quallcom AR SDK.
Anyway I will use this for a bit of self promotion though - we have just released public alpha version of source code editor on android - http://www.touchqode.com
We have bigger goals with it - just for now we want to make code editing on mobile phones easier. It might not fit general idea of cool (for us it is definitely cool) since our post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759122 just sunk :)
Good work!
Feature request: built-in ftp/sftp with upload-on-save option.
At this moment we suggest you synchronize your source files with your development computer using dropbox. There is a writeup on what setup we use ourselves in FAQ section http://www.touchqode.com/faq.htm#synchro
Next q: Since I installed it directly from your website and not the android market, how will I know about updates? Your blog looks rather sparse.
And promise we will update the blog as well :)
Other than that we don't use it in any way but I understand it might rise concern.
Can create android apps with it and get it to compile to an apk. It has ruby-like syntax but is strictly typed. It's former name was Duby. It's awesome and being actively developed. It's come a long way.
We'll be making it open source shortly.
http://www.doubletwist.com/apps/android/x-fit-wod-crossfit/1...