Apps for Android - what we know so far

[Daniel]

I've just been reading up on the apps for Android project - mainly the newly announced AndroidGlobalTime app.

Have there been any others announced or showcased by the team?

[Mossberg]

I believe currently it's just WikiNotes and AndroidGlobalTime.

More info here:
http://www.talkandroid.com/47-android-apps-for-android/
http://www.talkandroid.com/97-androi...s-for-android/

[Andor]

More recently Google revealed a simple Flickr viewer/reader that will be part of the apps-for-android project.

Photostream aims to highlight several of Android’s features and API’s, these include:

• Activity aliases
• Adding custom shortcuts to Home
• Adding a new wallpaper chooser to the system
• Custom layouts
• Custom XML attributes
• Use of themes
• Use of styles
• Use of text colors
• Use of <include>
• Use of bitmap and layer drawables from XML
• Use of HttpClient
• Proper interaction between background threads and the UI thread
• Efficient display rotation (using the new onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() API)
• Animations and layout animations
• Cropping an image
• Image manipulation

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/09/android-photostream.html