This application shows on a map or on a list places from Wikipedia near your location.

Allows to launch Wikipedia article or start driving directions to the place.

Developed as an application to learn Android development, this app contain samples of how to do many common things on Android:

• Dashboard
• Creating preferences screens and retrieving preferences
• Google Maps API, including overlays
• Location API
• Using external JSON sevices (from http://www.geonames.org)
• Lists and adapters
• Launching external apps with intents
• Admob ads integration

The app is also published on the Android Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobialia.wikiplaces

Here you can find some slides explaining the app (in spanish): http://www.mobialia.com/learning/labandroid/