CodeAndroid Meetup
– Learning about the Platform
IE Singapore – The Little Red Dot
30th May 2009
10 AM

CodeAndroid.org
• Android Developer/User Group
• Grassroots effort by developers
• Promote Android development around this region (SEA, Oceania)
• You can join us on Facebook, Twitter, IRC (#codeandroid @
irc.freenode.net)
Special thanks to Eugene from IE Singapore
for the venue arrangements

Agenda
• Cool stuff that you can do on Android (Chua Zi Yong)
• How can you build an app in 30 minutes (Muh Hon Cheng)
• Q&A with Jason Hudgins, winner of Android Dev Challenge 1 with
ShopSavvy
• Discussion and mingling

Cool stuff that you can do on Android
Augmented Reality

Why Augmented Reality?
• Value adds to your data (CONTEXT!)
• Visual and “life-like” experience to the user
• Less 2D, more 3D
• More convenience
• Less intrusive advertisements?

What is Augmented Reality?
• Combination of real-world and computer-generated data
• Blend computer graphics into real footage in real time.
• Uses
• motion-tracking data
• markers recognition using machine vision
Source: http://takemetoyourleader.com

What does Android provides?
• Location Provider
• Altitude
Location and type of interaction
• Accelerometer
• Gyroscope
• Camera ------- Image recognition and processing

Example of AR on Android Case 1
Wikitude
• Grabs your location, screen orientation
• Mesh with data from Wikipedia and Qype
• POI location, description
Source: Wikitude

Ideas for AR on Android?
• Military
• Extension of social network app (locate your friend)
• AR games
• Item tagging and identification

How can you build an app in 30 minutes

Creating a simple Android application
• APIDemo (sample code included with
Android SDK installation)
• Reference Doc

Creating a simple Android application
• Activity
– represents a screen that an application can
present to its users
• Intents
– a simple message object that represents
an „intention‟ to do something

Q&A with Jason from ShopSavvy

CodeAndroid.org
• You can join us on Facebook, Twitter, IRC (#codeandroid @
irc.freenode.net)
• Contact us at CodeAndroid.org@gmail.com or
www.codeandroid.org
Special thanks to Eugene from IE Singapore
for the venue arrangements