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NenaMark2

Mon, 23 May 2011 16:14:53 +0000

NenaMark2 is an OpenGL|ES 2.0 benchmark for high-end mobile devices, continuing where the popular NenaMark1 left off with more advanced graphical effects and higher resolution graphics.

Unlike many other benchmarks, NenaMark measures performance using realistic scenes that could be taken from a typical game and presents the result in frames per second, i.e. providing an intuitive performance number that can be used for realistic comparisons between different devices.

Benchmark results from a wide variety of devices are available on the NenaMark site (http://nena.se/nenamark).

Effects:
- Skeletal Animation (bones matrix animation), trees.
- Morph Target Animation (blend vertex sets), sun flowers along house wall.
- Bump Mapping (using normal map), stone walls on house.
- Water (reflections, normal animation, fresnel effect), the lake.
- Cloud System (advanced particle system), clouds.
- Cube Map Reflections (w/ dynamic cube map generation), windows on house.
- Smoke (advanced particle system), smoke from chimney.
- Shadow Mapping (dynamic shadow mapping), terrain.
- Texture Channel Animation, sparkling sun.
- Smooth Gradient Animation, sky hemisphere.
- Dynamic lighting (per vertex diffuse lighting), entire scene.
- Lens flare, lens flare from sun at low altitude.

For more information, visit: http://nena.se/nenamark

Recent changes:
- run button can be triggered with KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER or KEYCODE_BUTTON_START for automated benchmarking

Locus - addon Contacts

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:58:19 +0000

This is simple addon for Locus mapping application (version 0.9.17 and higher).

Allow to search contact location by address in Locus and add result into points, path or wherever is location needed.

This addon do not have any screen or widget.

Recent changes:
*** 1.1 ***
- graphics improvements - better icon, style same as Locus application!

Ruboto Core

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:58:02 +0000

This is the common platform for running Ruboto Ruby applications.

You need to install this app on your device to run some Ruboto apps.

See http://ruboto.org/ for more information.

Recent changes:
* Updated to Ruboto 0.11.0
* Allow running in Ruby 2.0 mode
* Updated packaged ARJDBC to version 1.2.9
* Put RubotoCore releases on the public website
* Open the installing app upon open.

OCR Test

Fri, 13 May 2011 07:05:29 +0000

Experimental app for optical character recognition (OCR).

Runs the Tesseract 3.02 open source OCR engine to find text in images captured by the device camera.

This app runs OCR on your device--without uploading your images to a server--and is suitable for recognizing individual words or short phrases of text. Translation (powered by Microsoft/Google) can be run after OCR.

The default single-shot capture runs OCR on a snapshot image that's captured when you click the shutter button, like a regular photo.

When the "continuous preview" checkbox is checked, the app shows a dynamic, real-time display of what the device is recognizing right beside the camera viewfinder. The continuous preview mode works best on a fast device.

USING THIS APP

- Point the device at some text and touch the on-screen shutter button to start OCR.

- To copy text to the clipboard or share text, long-press on the text after pressing the shutter button.

- For recognizing individual Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, set the page segmentation mode to "single character."

RECOGNITION ACCURACY

- Various factors can cause the OCR to fail: uneven illumination, stylized text, or text without enough contrast from the background. Try to have good lighting.

- Hold the device steady, and be sure the picture is in focus.

- If you need to scan a large block of text or an entire document, consider using a flatbed document scanner or a paid server-based OCR app (such as Scanthing) instead.

LANGUAGES

- This app supports several languages not supported by Google Goggles/Google Translate.

- Supported languages for OCR: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

- Arabic OCR requires a large amount of RAM. If your device doesn't have enough RAM, the app will quit during OCR.

DEVELOPMENT NOTES

- This is an open source project. The source code is available at https://github.com/rmtheis/android-ocr.

- Since the release of this app, Google Goggles has added a "continuous mode" and Google Translate has added OCR-based translations. There is also one VC-funded startup that has used this app as a starting point.

- Thanks to the contributors: Spoorthi, Hunvil, Jingjing, Xuyuan, and Mandar.

My latest translation app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rmtheis.translator

Recent changes:
Fixed Bing translations.
Upgraded to use Tesseract v3.02.
Improved camera handling code.
Added "share" option for recognized/translated text. Long-press text to use.
Made compatibility fixes for Optimus V and Galaxy Tab devices.
Added workaround for Android Issue 25321 for Android 4.0.x devices.
Added support for x86-based devices.

PassportImageDecoder

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:15:25 +0000

This library can decode various image formats used in electronic machine readable travel documents (eMRTD) / electronic passports (ePassport).

This open-source library is used by NFC TagInfo (only available to devices that support Near Field Communication) to decode images from ePassports.

Get NFC TagInfo: http://bit.ly/GEgabZ

Visit http://www.mroland.at/imagedecoder for more information.

While we test our app prior to releases, there might still be some errors that cause unexpected behavior and functional interruptions. If you happen to find such misbehavior please help us by providing a so-called "crash report". You can also file bug reports or feature requests using our issue tracker: http://issues.mroland.at/

ActionBarSherlock Demos

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:49:51 +0000

WARNING: This is a demo app for a library project!

ActionBarSherlock is an extension of the compatibility library designed to facilitate the use of the action bar design pattern across all versions of Android with a single API.

The library will automatically use the native action bar when appropriate or will automatically wrap a custom implementation around your layouts. This allows you to easily develop an application with an action bar for every version of Android from 2.x and up.

The demo sample is a showcase of the functionality of the library (most notably, the action bar). There are several demos of different functionality but the most important is the feature toggles. A set of buttons make up the layout of this activity which allow you to toggle virtually all of the display-related settings of the action bar to observe how it behaves on various device configurations.

Please DO NOT report bugs in reviews. Create an issue on the GitHub project or send them to my email directly. More information available via the website.

Recent changes:
Altered technique used for menu event dispatching through the fragment manager for greater control.

Do not dispatch menu creation event if the activity has been destroyed.

Correct potential NullPointerException when the hardware menu key was pressed in an activity that is forcing the overflow menu.

Do not set a listener on the native action bar tab wrapper unless a compatibility listener has been set.

Ensure the compatibility animation framework is always available on views.

AR Sudoku Solver

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:13:15 +0000

The AR (Augmented Reality) Sudoku Solver is a tech demo that uses the phone's camera to find sudoku grids, solve them and project the results back into the picture.
The program expects the grid to be freestanding, flat and not manually filled.
Best results are achieved in good lightning conditions. The solver does not try to solve grids with less than 20 symbols (not restricted to numbers). All symbols must appear at least once.
Use the volume keys to toggle debug visualizations.

This is not a game, just a tech demo without any practical application that I know of.

Recent changes:
Completely rewrote the image capture part, processing remains unchanged. So far tested with Nexus S and Nexus One. I hope that this will make it work on Droid phones and the new Samsung Galaxy S2, but I have no test devices available, so it is all guess-work. Please let me know through comments if it improves/deteriorates compatibity.

ActionBarSherlock Fragments

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:20:58 +0000

WARNING: This is a demo app for a library project!

ActionBarSherlock is an extension of the compatibility library designed to facilitate the use of the action bar design pattern across all versions of Android with a single API.

The library will automatically use the native action bar when appropriate or will automatically wrap a custom implementation around your layouts. This allows you to easily develop an application with an action bar for every version of Android from 2.x and up.

This sample is simply the 'API Demos' sample from the Android support library ported to use SherlockFragmentActivity and SherlockFragment. It should provide a good idea of how these two classes are used to replace FragmentActivity and Fragment.

PERMISSIONS: Both the "Read contact" and "Internet" permissions are used for demonstration purposes only. These permissions are present in the official compatibility library sample and thus this sample. The app is open source and does not make any attempt to steal any private information.

Please DO NOT report bugs in reviews. Create an issue on the GitHub project or send them to my email directly. More information available via the website.

Recent changes:
Altered technique used for menu event dispatching through the fragment manager for greater control.

Do not dispatch menu creation event if the activity has been destroyed.

Correct potential NullPointerException when the hardware menu key was pressed in an activity that is forcing the overflow menu.

Do not set a listener on the native action bar tab wrapper unless a compatibility listener has been set.

Ensure the compatibility animation framework is always available on views.

Locus - addon GeoGet Database

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:06:12 +0000

Since new version of Locus 1.14.6 comes new addon – GeoGet database. Do you know GeoGet? GeoGet is geocache manager, where you can manage your final waypoints, add notes or waypoints to geocache or import/export geocache from/to GeoGet.

This addon provide connection between GeoGet database, where geocaches are save, and Locus, great map tool for Android! So you can view all your GeoGet geocache in Locus, manage final waypoints, view listing, etc. And everything offline!

It’s simple – install plugin, copy your GeoGet database to SD card, setup addon and run Locus. And just import geocaches.

Instructions:
1. Set correct path to GeoGet database on your SD card
2. Change filter in settings, if you want
3a. Add this addon on right-side panel and click on it.
3b. Tap on map (hold finger), select last icon in bottom menu – Settings and select Load GeoGet geocaches.
4. Done!

Looking for volunteers who would like to help with the translation of this application. Contact me - kuratkoo@gmail.com

Tags: geoget, database, locus, geocaching

Recent changes:
Fix some app crashes

Multitouch Test

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:59:33 +0000

This app shows how your phone's hardware handles multitouch. Multitouch Test allows you to find out the multi touch capabilities of your device. It supports up to 20 pointers (fingers). Each touch pointer is visualized with a colored circle (blue: down, green: move, grey: up).

Recent changes:
fixed one big bug, suggest all users update to this new version