Interested in the Google Summer of Code

[Assim]

Hi All,

I am a student of University of Delhi (NSIT, India) doing my majors in
Information Technology . I wish to know if Android is participating in
Google Summer of Code this year? I have an idea for android regarding
a genric Event Manager. I wish to develop an application which would
be able to take any action based on event occured. This would include
1) Forwarding the sms if received from specific number
2) Replying with SMS when a call gets missed out
3) Running an activity or replying the status of some activity( e.g.
GPS) when an SMS contains specific text(say a key) is received.(useful
for remote admistration or safe guadr against theft).
4) Sending Email to specific address on triggering of some preset
event.
5) Auto call back with some pre-recorded message(a lot like answering
machine).

I have figured out that unlike J2ME android have packages available
for handeling sms and calls( android.telephony and
android.telephony.gsm ). For emailing I have found that there is and
undocumented class android.provider.Gmail (http://groups.google.com/
group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/abb027745e07f6da/
8e803c28fbc1ffec?lnk=gst&q=email+class#8e803c28fbc1ffec) but I have
not tried it myself.

This application would be a service actually which would act as a
IntentReceiver and all the intents would be mapped to corresponding
scripts that needed to be execuated. I am very much interested in
developing this activity as this will automate many of our day to day
task.

I would very much like to hear suggestion, feasiblity or improvement
of this activity and will it be possible to develop this activity
under Google Summer of Code? I have also posted this query on
Developer list. Wish to hear a reply soon.

Regards
Assim Deodia

[Peli]

Hi Assim,

We were thinking about participating at Google Summer of Code as a
mentoring organization, but had to give up this idea as it is not
compatible with the Android Developer's Challenge. I guess similar
constraints apply to other organizations so that you may not easily
find an open source project that deals with Android. Or did you intend
to have Google as a mentor directly?

In any case, our project, OpenIntents, also started to work on a
general AlertProvider - to set arbitrary intents upon specific events.
We have some internal discussion on this here, if you are interested,
have a look:
http://groups.google.com/group/openintents/browse_frm/thread/ff49d7bf1db83cf2#
http://groups.google.com/group/openintents/browse_frm/thread/c54e1ffe132a42b1#

Your ideas may fit in very well, so feel free to join our discussion
there.

Peli
http://code.google.com/p/openintents/

[Assim]

Hi Peli,

> We were thinking about participating at Google Summer of Code as a
> mentoring organization, but had to give up this idea as it is not
> compatible with the Android Developer's Challenge. I guess similar
> constraints apply to other organizations so that you may not easily
> find an open source project that deals with Android. Or did you intend
> to have Google as a mentor directly?

Thanks for taking interest in my idea. My initial thought was to have
android as a mentoring organization . But then android was no where in
the organization list so i wish to know the feasibility this idea
under Google as mentoring organizations? Is Google going to take
project involving android?

> In any case, our project, OpenIntents, also started to work on a
> general AlertProvider - to set arbitrary intents upon specific events.
> We have some internal discussion on this here, if you are interested,

> have a look:http://groups.google.com/group/openintents/browse_frm/thread/ff49d7bf...http://groups.google.com/group/openintents/browse_frm/thread/c54e1ffe...

>
> Your ideas may fit in very well, so feel free to join our discussion
> there.

I saw the discussion and it is almost very similar to my idea. I have
posted a suggestion there and hope it helps in finding the solution.

Regards
Assim Deodia

[Megha Joshi]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Assim <assim....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I am a student of University of Delhi (NSIT, India) doing my majors in
Information Technology . I wish to know if Android is participating in
Google Summer of Code this year?

As the efforts of the Android Team are currently focused on the Android 1.0 release, at this point we would not have enough time to spare to be as good enough as a mentor in the Google Summer or Code :)