Ishmael's data exchange

I learned how to:

• Write a Hello world app in Android
• Manually configure a device to work with a driver in windows when the driver.inf file “has no hardware information about your device”
• Some android phones have driver software that is only obtainable through bizarre methods.
• Decrypt an APK file to extract XML information
• Use XML information to generate an R.java file in Eclipse
• Debug someone else’s application to get it to run.

GO!

1. CTA Bus Tracker/Transit Tracker for Blackberry
2. Facebook app that imports from wordpress (the RSS feed import for Facebook is broken)
3. Smart shopper (allows you to price check items with stores that are nearby)

I apologize for not posting as many details about my BBBoxee project for the Blackberry. I seem to be able to only contribute a little bit of time into each month which has been very costly.

I seem to keep hitting the same roadblock each month. I keep forgetting that you cannot always see network traffic from the blackberry if you’re sniffing from a wireless connection. This makes it difficult since I will always have to test the XBMC/Boxee detection protocol at home before I can develop the app any further.

Nevertheless I will get back to re-prototyping the handshaking process with plain Java before finally resolving the issue in RIM’s Java.

This weekend I learned that there is no Boxee remote control application for the Blackberry. Therefore, I am developing an application for use on the Blackberry that will work with Boxee/XBMC. I will be spending the next few weeks observing and documenting the functionality of the BlackBerry API that will fit my needs. Yet, I have run into a slight problem: the Cyrpto portion of that Java for Blackberry API requires a paid registration and signed application. More details to follow…