29-01-2010

Opdatering af Motorola Milestone til 2.0.1 - nu nærmer vi os

Category Android Dansk
Der er mange der venter på opgraderingen til version 2.0.1 af Android på deres Mototola Milestone (som hedder Droid i USA - hvor de har fået opgraderingen).
Der er masser af diskussion på nettet om det. Hvorfor har vi ikke fået opgraderingen endnu, i har lovet at den kommer i januar osv osv. F.eks. her på Motorola Europes Facebookside (tilgængelig uden login).

Det er nogenlunde sådan det skal se ud når opdateringen ligger klar.
Så får man tilbudet om at installere... og det er jo ret oplagt at vi her siger ja tak.

Man opgraderer ved at gøre følgende: Menu -> Settings -> About phone -> System updates.
Man får en advarsel om at det kan koste penge (data-trafik), hvorefter telefonen checker efter opgraderingen.

I lang tid har min Milestone svaret "Unable to connect". Det betyder at den slet ikke kan finde den server der skal levere opdateringen.
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Men her til morgen svarede den at "Your system is currently up to date". Det opfatter jeg som positivt. Det betyder at serveren rent faktisk findes. Det er jo de indledende skridt inden man kan få opgraderingen.
Det er rimeligt sikkert også svar på det spørgsmål jeg længe har haft: Kan jeg overhovedet få en opgradering over nettet når jeg sidder i Danmark med en telefon der er sendt fra Expansys som har sendt den fra et sted i Frankrig. Når serveren kan ses fra min enhed så vil jeg bestemt mene at jeg får opdateringen når den er lagt ud. Jeg vil tro, at jeg får den sammen med de engelske (UK) opdateringen. Expansys er så vidt jeg ved engelsk.

Det skal siges, at hvis jeg igen trykker på System updates, så kan den finde på at svare "Unable to connect". Jeg regner med at det handler om at serveren er for længe om at svare, fordi der er så utroligt mange enheder der prøver at hente deres opdatering.

Hvis du ikke har fri data på dit mobil-abonnement så skal du foretage denne opgradering mens du er  på WiFi. Jeg mener, at opdateringen "vejer" omkring 300 Mbytes.

Det der burde være adresseret i 2.0.1 udgaven er (mit uddrag af listen):
- Mere stabilitet.
- Længere batteri-levetid.
- Kamaraets autofocus er blevet forbedret, og ventetid mellem klik er forbedret.
- tre deltagere på linien.
- Bedre lyd på modtagne opkald.
- Når man lukker en applikation der bruger gps så forsvinder gps-ikonet i statuslinien (som den skal)
Kilde: Motorola DROID Android 2.0.1 update is on a roll.

29-01-2010

My Tracks - automatisk generering af kort over hvor man har løbet, gået eller cyklet

Category Android Danish
Jeg har lige afprøvet en app til Android. Den hedder My Tracks.

Prøv at se dette skærmdump fra Google Maps.

Det er et kort over en cykeltur jeg kørte fra min tandlæge og hjem her til morgen (nul huller iøvrigt). Og det kort blev lavet automatisk ved hjælp af en app til min Android telefon. Denne app hedder så My Tracks.
Man starter My Tracks op, siger at den skal begynde at optage, og når man så er ankommet i den anden ende af ruten så vælger man at den skal stoppe, og så kan man klikke på en knap som gør at ruten bliver til et nyt kort i "my maps" på Google maps.
Og den har så beregnet alt muligt smart omkring hastighed og afstand. Jeg synes at det er cool.

Du kan se mit kort "live" her på Google maps: skb og hjem gennem skov.
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25-01-2010

Lotus Notes email calendar and contacts on Android - Traveler client on its way

Category Android
At the LotusPhere 2010 General Opening Session, there was of course lots of new stuff being announced. One of those things was how Lotus was expanding the Lotus Traveler products.
Lotus Traveler is a Lotus Domino server component that enables mobile devices to synchronize PIM (email, calendar, contacts and to-do) with the user's data on the Domino server.
Right now this feature is available on the Apple iPhone, Nokia Symbian S60 and on Windows Mobile devices. The exact set of features available on the different devices is not 100% the same. For instance there has not been an option for synchronizin todos to the iPhone.


Here is what I noted on new features for Traveler:

The iPhone gets a new client called the Lotus Notes Traveler Companion which enables the user to read encrypted email.
The Android line of devices gets official support through a new client built for Android version 2.0 and 2.1.

That's just great to hear. I have just recently acquired the Motorola Milestone and I will be looking forward to getting a better client for synchronizing my PIM.

I found a screen dump from an Android device showing a Lotus Traveler icon: IBM Lotus to Deliver collaboration software to Android devices and Nokia Symbian smartphones.

An interesting bit here is the second icon from the right: "Sametime". A Sametime client has not been announced for Android.... yet

The Traveler server addon for Domino will be available on the Linux platform, which is great news to me. I will be able to kill off that extra Domino server I had to get installed in our server environment because it used to be Windows only.

Ed Brill has more information here: Lotusphere 2010: Lotus Notes Traveler in 2010.
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20-01-2010

Creating an Android brain dump app

Category Android Getting Things Done
For the last week I have been working on a personal project. I am coding a native Android application.
The application is going to be able to quickly collect reminders, to-dos, things you think about. Those things that in the Getting Things Done terminology are labelled "Stuff". In the GTD way of thinking, it is very very important to move "Stuff" from your brain and on to some permanent storage: paper, an electronic document or whatever.

My app will be able to collect Stuff and when it is convenient for you it can save that data from the device and into your Lotus Notes todo-list as a very very simple Lotus Notes Task document.

What happens next, after your Stuff has been saved to Notes is going to be all-Notes client. I am using the eProductivity template, and when I open up my eP-enabled mail box it prompts me when it detects the kind of Stuff that my ToDoManager has saved to my mail database, asking me if I want to do something with them - get them organized in to proper GTD Actions for instance.

This is a personal journey at the moment. I am building up both Java and Android skills as I go.

At the moment my prototype looks like this:
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I can add notes on the first Tab. You can see that I am writing one in the screen dump above.

On the second tab I can see what notes I have saved locally.
The notes are saved in a local SQlite database.
And that's it. No saving to the Lotus Notes mail database yet.
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I am in the process of getting to the point where I can save to Notes using http POST. I have just successfully seen my app log on to a Domino server using the Multi Server Single Signon LtpaToken.

This is going to be so good

Lots of wins for me personally here:
  • I am solving a real need that I have in my GTD implementation.
  • I learn more Java.
  • What I learn here can possibly be used at work. Convergens' standard Doc Management solution - now on Android!
  • I have more cool stuff to show to my iPhone-using neighbours.
  • My daughter Frederikke (aged 11) thinks I am cool (and she wants an Android too).
If you need to get your work life organized I can recommend having a look at eProductivity. They are represented at LotusPhere 2010 if you happen to be there. I know that Eric Mack is doing a presentation.

07-01-2010

Android or iPhone app - SDK or Webkit

Category Android
I have just recently had a look at programming with the Android SDK. And I have seen a demo of a project using Domino xPages and the Webkit facilities of the iPhone and Android devices. Mark Hughes has posted a handful of blog entries about xPages and WebKit, for instance Xpages: Free X-Page iPhone App Template.

Webkit is a rendering engine that web browsers can incorporate. And a lot of browser do use Webkit. The iPhone browser and the standard Android browser are both Webkit based. The Nokia S60 devices have a Webkit-based browser.

When developing for Android or the iPhone and what you are doing is actually creating a mobile version of a Notes/Domino application, I have had a few thoughts about pros and cons with going for a Webkit solution instead of developing a native application for the device using it's SDK.

Pros:
- If you want an app to integrate with a Domino application, you have Xpages. Rapid Application Development.
- You can have the same app work on both iPhone and Android.

Cons:
- You need to be online.

But then again.... If you need it to integrate with a Domino application, you would probably prefer to be online anyway even if you created the application using the Android SDK - or the iPhone SDK. Creating a native iPhone or Android application that has an offline capability that is near Lotus-Notes' offline quality (encryption) using an SDK is IMHO quite a task. A lot bigger than creating an xPages user interface for an existing Notes/Domino application.

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