Moviefone on Android.

A great app.  The movie trailers are spectacular.

This was a great project and I am very proud of my work on it.

Video Demo – remote logging

DroidDrop Remote logging gives Android Developers the ability to log data from their applications to a drop on drop.io.

How to:
Download DroidDropNotes.jar

Include the jar in your Android project.  It will add 16K to your APK.

Get a developer API Key from drop.io (free, painless, takes 2 minutes)
http://dev.drop.io/

Review the source code and example on GitHub.

DropioLogDemo.java shows the first screen for the app
UpdateLog.java has sample usage to show logging an exception and saving user input.

Declare a DroidDropNote Client:
DroidDropNoteClient dropClient= new DroidDropNoteClient(“–YOUR API Key”);
dropClient.setToken(“–drop password or token”);

Write out a Note/Text contents:
results = dropClient.createNote( “DROPNAME”, “Note title”,  “Message”);

Use gestures to browse photos, rotate phone to change view, upload existing photos and videos. Try version 1.5.

Search Android Market for BFF Photo.

If you like the app, please rate it in the market.

Feedback, questions, issues, suggestions?
http://www.facebook.com/BFFPhoto

Use DroidDrop to:

- Create & View Drops
- Add Notes, Links, and Photos
- It’s easy to start with the demo drop
- View & update in the demo and then create your own drops

I submitted DroidDrop to ADC2 (Android Developer’s Challengge 2)  on 8/31.  I expected to add a few more features  before  publishing it to the market.  I was able to add some polish and 1 new feature (uploading photos directly from the gallery.)

I was starting to work on adding even more features when I realized it was a good time to stop and get some  feedback.  So, please try out DroidDrop and let me know what you think. Some of my ideas for new features are at the end of this post.

These 2 tweets were timely in helping me think about the release date.

1. RT @albertwenger Making Versus Planning … http://tumblr.com/xbk34pkz3
2. RT @ericries IFTF: don’t pave until you see where people walk; needs to apply to IT and internal tools #workunbound

Feedback and ideas wanted! Error reports, too.
Contact via email or twitter
http://twitter.com/droiddrop

You can see a previous video demo here.
http://talkingandroid.com/2009/09/01/droiddrop-preview-drop-io-on-android/

I would expect to add:

• video upload
• audio upload
• showing drops in reverse chronological order
• performance improvements

THIS IS NOW LIVE. Search the market for “droiddrop”

Demo of app in development.
Use drop.io to access & share files, photos, & notes in “drops”

I plan to release a beta version to the market soon.  Let me know what you would like in that release.

Follow updates at http://twitter.com/DroidDrop

Use DroidDrop to:
* Create Drops
* View Drops
* Add Notes, Links, and Photos to Drops
* Get files from Drops

I am also working on a complete rewrite of BFF Photo.

BFF Photo is an application to:

• View your Facebook Photos on your Phone
• View your friend’s photos
• Take pictures and videos using the app and upload to Facebook

Find it by searching for “bff” on the Android Market.

Login to Facebook from the app to authorize on Facebook.  Requires Internet connection.

On the technical side, I mention that I am using Intents for both camera and video capture.  More on that in a future post.

Please contact with issues or technical questions.

Photos are one of the most used features on Facebook.

BFF Photo is an application to:

• View your Facebook Photos on your Phone
• View your friend’s photos
• Take pictures and videos using the app and upload to Facebook

Find it by searching for “bff” on the Android Market.

Like any other Facebook Application,  BFF Photo needs to be authorized.  Login to Facebook from the app to do that.

To upload videos and photos,  set the Facebook Publish permission.  That is done in the app after  Login and from the Android Menu.  You can  set a permission to stay connected to Facebook. That means you will not need to login again.

To Login and retrieve or upload photos, you will need an Internet connection.

Next:  A video showing taking a picture and shooting a video.  Stay tuned.

It is an Android app for viewing the photos you and your friends have posted to Facebook.  You can also upload new photos and videos.

Please give it a try. Find it in the market by searching “bff”.  If you like it, rate it and comment on the Android market. Post technical questions here.

To interact with Facebook, I am using their new “Simplified Desktop Authorization Flow.“

For API calls, I am using a Java Facebook Client library I developed for talking to the Facebook REST server. I’ll be writing more about it. I intend to clean up the library and ultimately make it open source.

I am using Android Intents to take a photo and capture a video.

Video Demo Coming Soon!

• Browse Facebook Albums
• View Photos
• Upload new Photos and Videos.

Full app will be available soon.

On technical side, this uses a small Java library for Facebook calls including multiPart mime for uploading photos and videos.

• Access Amazon’s SimpleDB web service
• Build queries for SimpleDB
• Create queries verbally using Android Speech technology
• Save queries

To access your SimpleDB database you will need to enter your AWS key and Secret.  To clear or change the info choose “Edit Preferences” from the menu.

Query Browser for SimpleDB shows how useful a database in the cloud can be.  Please comment or contact me for info on developing SimpleDB Android projects.