smartlink - Smartlink manages personal associations of words with semantic data on android to interconnect applications.

Project Information

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Code license
GNU Lesser GPL
Labels
android, links, linkify, associations, fuzzy, search

Members

oliver.n...@gmail.com

Smartlink is an open source project trying to improve the user experience for advanced usage scenarios of a mobile phone and is targeting the Android platform.

Smartlink is about making our mobile device acting a little bit more like a human secretary by learning personal associations of words (like "Maria" or “KDE homepage”) with semantic data (like a corresponding contact entry in our address book or a bookmark in our browser) and offering to utilize the data of these associations (eg. the phone number to make a call, or the URL to forward to someone) whenever we use plain text in any application (eg. in a tasklist application). In other words, Smartlink interconnects different applications (that do not need to know of each) based on plain text associations in a smart way.

News

15.05.2008 - And the (ADC) winner is... not Smartlink! But development will continue and developers interested in extending the concept of Smartlink are highly encouraged to participate! A Roadmap is in preparation...
15.04.2008 - Version 0.1 of Smartlink has been submitted to the Android Developer Challenge, and the very same version submitted to the ADC is available for download, in particular a document describing in detail the idea and architecture of Android, so if you want to know what Smartlink is about, download the zip file and look at the contained pdf document

Current Status

Smartlink is currently available in a very early beta state, integrating only very few applications so far (see the list of SmartLinkEnabledApplications).

Development

Smartlink is an open source project that not only encourages developers to contribute to it, but highly depends on other projects and developers to "smartlink-enable" their applications to integrate with the Smartlink approach (with the current status of just a handful of applications being smartlink-enabled it is of very limited use). What "smartlink-enabled" means and how an application can be made "smartlink-enabled" is documented in the pdf document contained in the zip file available via the downloads.