Hello all, my apologies for misplaced announcement, but i though it would make sense - while waiting for real Android-phones to arrive:
one can already start porting and distributing their Android app as standalone Linux/Windows desktop app, or even as web app (using standard Android APIs+xml, no code mods.) http://code.google.com/p/drine/ I'm letting you know about Dr.i.n.e project - Drine Is Not An Emulator The above project page contains source code (Apache 2.0 license), sample code and demos, some screenshots, design docs (incomplete) brief outline of Android features currently supported by Drine lib: * loading resources from Xml: UI-layouts, drawables, NinePatchDrawbles, strings, raw * supported layouts: linearlayout, table row, tablelayout * Activity, Dialog, WebView, canvas, fonts, sqlite-db/cursors, view hierarchy handling, events, focus, bitmaps, input controls, etc etc (there's long list of what's already supported, but the yet much much longer is the "unsupported" list android of APIs. More details in the docs) * UI-bridges: Drine-SWT for Windows/Linux (uses IBM's SWT), AWTk - for the web (i nicked it "AWTk - Android Web Toolkit"), features Android Activities servlet which executes activity in any J2EE servlet-container, talks to ATWk's javascript code on the browser which renders Android's UI and graphics in DHMTL, dispatches UI/App-events back and forth via ajax * (A good way check if Drine is useful for you, is to try and compile your own ADC entry app against Drine's classes, and see how far can it go. Complete list of supported classes you can find here: ) I was also quite frustrated with "19%... ADB hang-ups" in Eclipse (happens in 1 out of 4-7runs), it was bad enough for me (taking away way too much time from developing my own adc entry - R2GR), so I started this Android API emulation project to save time and frustration i was having. It turned out to be a big undertaking, but it was fun and saved me tons of time as April 14th was approaching… (my app starts up in less then 1second via Drine libs, debugging is painless and fast, etc) May be some developers will find it useful, particularly in the context of "What to do with my app after Android Challenge I ?" The project is still in alpha, im hoping some of you will find it useful, try it, and may be even contribute to it, e.g. i imagine someone could come and contribute a UI-bridge for Drine to use pure Android's APIs on some "other" phones, e.g. on Nokia tablet N810 sorry for being not quite on topic, if you have questions, please post them here, i'll try my best to answer Aleksandras (let us hope there's still a lot of life and coding after ADC... :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
