From a LGE Engineer, South Korea its rumored that LG Electronics is working in Google’s Android Operating System and its upcoming version known as Ginger Bread.
So, let us hope LG phones also getting inside Era of Android which they are lagging behind.
After seeing the Motorola milestone sold in India having India maps for Moto Nav, I was behind the motorola people in UK. I did not get a proper response and finally Indian technical support said, its never going to get launched in the Motorola Extras where you can download the maps for various counties.
Recently, I have seen a map for south east Asia and I am disappointed to see India is not there in the list of maps. I would like to keep the map application and use it in my car while I am travelling to various places in and out of the city.
Upon searching, I found an Indian company named ‘Map My India’ had the android application for Rs.2500 from Map My India web site. In the web site the support is only mentioned for HTC android devices. But still I took a chance to buy it for my Motorola Milestone purchased in UK. Because, I have HTC Magic also.
I placed an order and with in 4 days, I got the software shipped from Delhi. I followed the instructions to install the application in to my Motorola milestone and surprisingly, Map My India worked pretty well in my Motorola Milestone.
The map my India application named ‘Mobile maps 9’ is not as good as iGo or the Moto Nav application. But still as it is voice based turn to turn navigation its still useful. So, finally here is the India map for Motorola milestone.
Here is the screen shots of the ‘Map my India’ navigation application.
I will write more about this after using quite some time.
But, my first thought is,
1. The exit button is hidden some where inside and I am able to catch that after a good time of research. So, I expect at least in the next release they should keep the buttons handy in some way.
We found an interesting feature from May 20th in Android Application Publish page. We hope it is very much useful for the developers.
So far, developers are integrating logging utility and using applications like 'SendLog' to collect the log information while there was some issues. Now, Google has taken it serious to improve the Quality of Service.
Here after the, as an Android application developer you have got an additional responsibility to answer the bugs which are getting reported/logged as shown in the bellow images.
Here is the new feature looks like in the Android publishing page.
Some more information captured in the android market application publish page.
One of the crash report in the bird’s view.
A brief view of the crash in another page.
I had an assignment in which I must how the sensor values as a bar code. For that I searched internet for the libraries. I found one here.
In the world of android who would pay to get such a library. If they are able to do it, even I can do it. Thanks to Google and XZing team. So, I finally found a way in the xzing site.
I downloaded the source code and created a jar file with the exact classes needed. The file can be download from here.
The code which I used to generate the bar code is here.
private void generateBarCode()
{
img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.img);
Code128Writer c9 = new Code128Writer();
mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(450, 150, Config.ARGB_8888);
try {
BitMatrix bm = c9.encode( swapped? "tel:12345345": "tel:13453432", BarcodeFormat.CODE_128, 450, 150);
mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(450, 150, Config.ARGB_8888);
for(int i=0;i<450;i++)
{
for(int j=0;j<150;j++)
{
mBitmap.setPixel(i, j, bm.get(i, j)? Color.BLACK:Color.WHITE);
}
}
} catch (WriterException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
if(mBitmap!=null)
{
img.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
img.setImageBitmap(mBitmap);
showBarCode.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
else
}
The above code sets the bar code image to the view.
Please comment here if you need more help.
I flashed the German release of Android 2.1 by Motorola and I can see some of the issues I found with Android 2.0.1 is no more there in 2.1. Specially the orientation issue. The orientation issue is pathetic which does not allow to attend the incoming calls.
The improvement I see in Android 2.1 for milestone are:
1. Better battery life
2. Orientation issue is fixed
3. Few good features which I do not use, because live wallpaper consumes more battery.
4. The media dock application. this has real good improvement with a ‘bigger’ home screen button. Handy!.
