This document discusses the potential for artists and creative developers to use Android as an accessible and hackable platform for 2D/3D visuals, touch input, camera data, sensors, sound, and hardware connectivity. It outlines some of the opportunities for off-the-shelf and custom embedded Android hardware, as well as calling developers, artists, and others to contribute shared knowledge and expertise to help advance creative uses of the Android platform.

1. Creative Android for Artists
PETER KIRN
peter@createdigitalmedia.net
@peterkirn
http://createdigitalmusic.com
http://createdigitalmotion.com
#androidart

2. What's accessible, hackable?
2D/3D visuals
Touch
Camera pixel data
Sensor input
Hardware I/O
Sound, real-time
Data
Connectivity (Bluetooth, WiFi)

3. Two threads
Off-the-shelf
...phones, tablets, TV, media
Custom embedded hardware

4. For whom?
Designers
Artists
Musicians
Students
Diversity
Localization
Free software
Interconnectivity

5. Sketching, learning
android.processing.org
dev.processing.org

6. Design patterns
Simplicity
Resolution-independent vectors
Cross-platform 3D

7. Connectivity, Sound and Score
OpenSoundControl
Inter-application (Open Intents)
SuperCollider, Pure Data, etc.
net.util OSC in Java
Zeroconf (Bonjour), jmDNS
Bluetooth

8. Multitouch
http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/android-stuff/
Atmel maXTouch?

9. Hardware connectivity
Serial breakout
Custom kernels
USB Host Mode
MIDI
Demo: coming MIDI kit (and other hooks)

10. What do we need? A call to action
1. Commons.
Shared knowledge, performance –
multitouch, sound

11. What do we need? A call to action
2. Experts
Custom kernels
Embedded development
Linux, audio developers

12. What do we need? A call to action
3. Fresh blood.
Artists, creative developers … people
outside this circle

13. Resources
http://groups.google.com/group/android-music-developers
http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/android
http://www.instructables.com/id/Android-G1-Serial-To-Arduino/

14. Get in touch
http://bit.ly/droidcamp