Share your applications to world!

[Zach Hobbs]

I know many of you are still coding and debugging your applications, trying to
get that last bit of polish and performance, but when you are done and you
want to go public with your application I recommend posting your application
in the Application Database at helloandroid.com. Just create an account or
login and you'll be able to submit descriptions, links, screenshots, etc.

Having your application in there will get you some extra exposure, and over
the next few weeks we'll be implementing better ways to browse and rate the
different applications. We'll also be highlighting some of the great
applications in various reviews, walk-throughs, etc.

Also, before the phones come out we will launch a package management
application that will allow users to browse the Application DB on any Android
phone to rate, comment, and install any of the applications listed on the
site.

Good luck in the challenge! Look forward to seeing all the great apps!

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Zach Hobbs
HelloAndroid.com
Android OS news, tutorials, downloads

[tberthel]

You could make it so I could add my images to the product page. :)

[YA]

Zach:

you might wish to review http://sadko.mobi/droidstor/index.html It
does pretty much what you described, plus handles payments and system
backup.

YA

[Harsh Jain]

Just curious, is it possible to install .apk from within the emulator ?

[Muthu Ramadoss]

YA,

Looks very similar to SlideME. How does DroidStar compare with
SlideME?

http://code.google.com/p/slideme/

http://mobeegal.in
find stuff closer.

[Zach Hobbs]

While it looks like it may be a good project, I'm looking to embrace an open
source solution. Hopefully there will be a good open source package manager
as a result of the challenge.

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Zach Hobbs
HelloAndroid.com
Android OS news, tutorials, downloads

[YA]

DroidStor, actually. We are a three-in-one software manager. DroidStor
can be used to
- search for programs across all catalogs that are available on web,
- install and remove programs,
- back up the system,
- share programs.
- handle payments
- control digital rights (.e.g disable shareware after trial period
expires)

My understanding is that SlideMe is a simpler version of our catalog
and only works with JVending, but I need to see more screenshots or a
list of features for SlideMe to compare.

YA

[YA]

Zach:

DroidStor can search across any catalog. If you do not mind we would
like to add your catalog to our search options. Can someone form Sadko
contact you with technical questions?

YA

[Muthu Ramadoss]

Ya,

Thanks for the explanation. Appreciated. Good luck on your submission.

YA wrote:
> DroidStor, actually. We are a three-in-one software manager. DroidStor
> can be used to
> - search for programs across all catalogs that are available on web,
> - install and remove programs,
> - back up the system,
> - share programs.
> - handle payments
> - control digital rights (.e.g disable shareware after trial period
> expires)
>
> My understanding is that SlideMe is a simpler version of our catalog
> and only works with JVending, but I need to see more screenshots or a
> list of features for SlideMe to compare.
>
> YA
>
> On Apr 10, 3:55 pm, Muthu Ramadoss <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> YA,
>>
>> Looks very similar to SlideME. How does DroidStar compare with
>> SlideME?
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/slideme/
>>
>> On Apr 10, 3:45 pm, YA <yuri.ammo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>

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Thanks.

Muthu Ramadoss
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http://twitter.com/intellibitz http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz
http://slideshare.net/intellibitz
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+91 44 22476750

We develop innovative search solutions using LBS for Android.

[Zach Hobbs]

No problem. The application listing on Hello Android is about to get a major
overhaul, send me an email and we'll talk about how to make the data
available.

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Zach Hobbs
HelloAndroid.com
Android OS news, tutorials, downloads

[Shane Isbell]

Guys I've done some work on another system putting a layer over it using RDF (openrdf). I've been planning on adding such functionality to JVending as well. Maybe we can get a distributed catalog search setup. This would be open and anybody could query across multiple nodes. If this has community interest, I'll setup something on JV over the next couple of weeks.

 

Shane

[Zach Hobbs]

Sounds like a very interesting idea. I have been looking at SlideME and I
plan on implementing a JVending catalog from the data on HelloAndroid. How
would duplicate entries be handled across the different repositories? Or
would this extra layer just provide a mechanism for the user to select which
catalog to use?

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Zach Hobbs
HelloAndroid.com
Android OS news, tutorials, downloads

[YA]

The obvious answer is "the catalog lists only one entry based on
catalog preference/price/etc" User can set such preferences for
himself.

YA

[Shane Isbell]

Cool, if you need help setting up, let me know. We may need to take this discussion off to the jvending forum or mailing list, but JVending does an md5 hash of the content and uses that as a bundleId. So if someone stocks the same content at different locations, we know they are the same. I added this as part of JXTA discovery support for JV, (this not in the current JV 2.1 version, but in v1.3) . So everything is in place for these types of distributed searches.

 

Shane

[Peli]

We'd be interested as well in an open repository distribution system.
This seems like a good way to also distribute the open intents... Is
there a link to where this discussion is continued?

Peli

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[Shane Isbell]

Hey Peli,

 

You can start it up here: http://groups.google.com/group/jvending-developers

 

Shane

[Shane Isbell]

YA,

 

We've got our catalog exposed: http://jv.slideme.org:8080/provisioning/AndroidDiscovery . (its the same one the client hits).  If you are interested, you can hook DroidStor to that.

 

Actually, anybody is free to use it. Right now it dumps out the entire catalog, which is currently is just the sample Android apps. If anyone wants to submit a patch to http://code.google.com/p/jvending that expands out the search capabilities (REST or SOAP), I'll get that submitted and available for everyone to use.

 

Regards,

Shane

[Shane Isbell]

Peli has opened the an open repositories discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/jvending-developers/browse_thread/thread/c077eab96ccaa7fe

 

If anyone wants to get involved, then go there. YA? Zach?

Shane