UPDATE 2008-12-17: Logcat has been ported to the G1 devices. Its a simple little apk that pipes the logcat output to the screen for easy viewing. Download the Logcat.apk on the right.

UPDATE 2008-08-18: Most of the code here is currently for M5. We are working to update certain components to 0.9r1.

Reserved hosting space for a small collection of Android developer examples and general tinkering projects.

Stuff we built to fiddle with Android on the HTC Vogue:

vogue-skin: Simple 240x320px Android emulator skin which mimics the Vogue's display.

Messages: This is a fully integrated threaded text messaging application geared towards the Vogue.

Scribble: A simple text editor to create/modify/view text based files on android. Scribble is also integrated with Glance with a context menu option to open files.

Glance: File manager to facilitate exploring and managing the system and data images from a running device.

HttpDownloader (0.9r1): Android app to download files from the web directly to a running device. We use this on the HTC Vogue to avoid manipulating the data.img file on the storage card each time we want to test a new APK.

RemoteLogcat: Android app to broadcast the logcat output to a remote server, so that we can watch real-time as we explore applications on the device.

LogcatActivity: Predecesor to RemoteLogcat, allowing you to view the Logcat output on the handset, and optionally save a limited history to a file on the device.

See http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/ for more information about running Android on an HTC Vogue (we're using the HTC Touch on Sprint).

Misc. Android developer resources

axml2xml.pl: Tool to translate Android binary XML files to plain text XML. Useful to run over system APKs, and the framework-res package to discover layout voodoo used by the Android team.

aidl-cblistsub.pl (0.9r1): Utility to generate extended RemoteCallbackList classes to ease the burden of implementing callback listeners in a service.

TestKeepAlive (1.0): Sophisticated demonstration of a persistent mobile TCP connection. The logic here should closely match how Google implements "push" notification of e-mail, calendar, and Gtalk IM.

Solitaire (0.9r1): Simple game implementation demonstrating various Android features, including elaborate custom drawing and state recovery. Currently plays only Klondike however Freecell and Hearts are coming soon.

JNITest: Working example of JNI on Android, thanks to Davanum Srinivas. This also serves as a crude benchmark demonstrating the performance overhead of native reads versus a supplied InputStream.

AsyncService: Simple example of how to implement an asynchronous service on Android. This is old code, maybe even for M3, but the concept still applies.

AlphabetListView: Widget I wrote early on in the development of Five to support alphabet-based navigation. I don't intend to use this moving forward, but it does serve as a good, robust example of custom widget creation.