Fun with Android

[brad]

I've been having fun writing Android apps

Comments

[notlosers]

Hmm. I've got a house to myself, with no-one to chastise me for messing with the wiring; this sounds like the kind of stupid trick I want to try. Any ideas what to use to control the lights?

[hughe]

At the catflat I stuck all the sensor wires from an old alarm system into the parallel port pin holes on the fileserver. Never underestimate the power of the parallel port. Great for catching rouge lanlords.

[dossy]

Now, if you can X10 control each individual light fixture and use dimmer switches ... you could have lights brighten and dim as you get closer or further away from them ... all as you travel throughout the house.

It'd be creepy to watch from the curbside, of course.

[dan_lane]

It's the ability to hack together things like this that make me really excited to ditch my iPhone and get an Android device!

[brad]

Yeah, it's wonderful not needing anybody's permission.

I can just put apps online and set my webserver's mimetype mappings appropriately and install applications directly from the phone's browser. No certifications or applications required.

[brad]

And the SDK is lovely. Great command-line tools & great Eclipse tools. And near-perfect emulator. ("near" because I still need to use the real phone to test things like Wifi scanning, but installing to the app vs. the emulator is a trivial change, and they're both the same speed to deploy to.... couple seconds)

[kfk2]

Are you using T-Mobile's phone for Android or are there other phones out there?

[brad]

Yeah, using a production T-Mobile G1.

[nyssabee]