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Android Garage Door Opener, part 2
This is a follow-up to my previous post to say: SO. FUCKING. AWESOME. I got it all working. I now have an Android Activity (GarageDoorActivity) which interacts with an Android Service I wrote (InRangeService), letting me start and stop the service's wifi scanning task. The service gets the ...
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Android Garage Door Opener
brad.livejournal.com — I've finally put the source code to my Android garage door opener online: To get it, just... run: $ git clone git://github.com/bradfitz/android-garage-opener.git Or browse the code online . Just keep in mind the code might suck because I barely know ... (more) Android Garage Door Opener
Android gets Facebook application after all
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Android Hacked to be a Garage Door Remote [G1]
Gizmodo — ... software only activates when he presses a button which basically tells the program that he's going back home. I know. If it requires a click and it consumes battery life, even if only a little, what's the point? Why not get a normal remote? Probably because he uses a motorbike and he doesn't want to stop to find the remote, click, and then keep on going, specially in winter. OK, who I'm kidding. He probably did it because he wants to feel Batmantastically cool. [Brad via Android Community] ...

Android hack - a smarter garage door opener
MAKE Magazine: hacks — ... is compelling support for a fully hackable, open source device. With normal iPhone development, you don't this level of deep access to be able to monitor WiFi connectivity or run an application as a background process. Brad's released the source code for this one. If this app gives you any ideas, his code might be a good place to start. Just make sure to send us a link to your Android hack when you get your G1 to turn lights on and off when you walk around the house. Android Garage Door Opener Download the Java Source

Android hack - a smarter garage door opener
MAKE Magazine — ... is compelling support for a fully hackable, open source device. With normal iPhone development, you don't this level of deep access to be able to monitor WiFi connectivity or run an application as a background process. Brad's released the source code for this one. If this app gives you any ideas, his code might be a good place to start. Just make sure to send us a link to your Android hack when you get your G1 to turn lights on and off when you walk around the house. Android Garage Door Opener Download the Java Source Read more | ...

Applications are reshaping mobile industry competition
VentureBeat — ... following, but I predict that in the coming months we’ll increasingly see blogs covering Android developers taking advantage of the platform’s freedom. There are some interesting things that Android offers, which its rivals don’t. For example, a developer built an app where he can open his garage door using his Android G1, as StartupMeme covered. It’s just one glimpse of what Android’s “embedded device” strategy enables. Explanations on how to do that have sent the imaginations of other developers spinning. ...

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