Open Source Software for Mobile Phones

Rhomobile’s open source mobile application framework Rhodes lets you quickly build native mobile applications for all smartphone operating systems: iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android. Mobilizing with Rhomobile consists of creating a RhoSync source adapter, generating an application with Rhogen, editing your HTML templates and Ruby controller actions and building the resulting application in your mobile development environment of choice. These are true native device applications (not mobile web apps) which work with synchronized local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera.

PhoneGap is a development tool that allows web developers to take advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry SDK using JavaScript.

Supported Features: Geo location, vibration and accelerometer.

SalesforceAndroid is a “simple smart sample application” for Salesforce on Android.

Let’s start bringing up Android application collaborating with Salesforce. It’s open source project and concept proof version app for salesforce mobile client on Android platform, so you all could join this project and exert your ideas, skills and desires on the Android.

The progress information is given in this web page: http://lg3d.blogspot.com/

Five is a system designed to efficiently extend the reach of your media to various personal devices such as your cell phone, laptop, and work PC. Currently the system includes a reference server implementation and an Android client, with a proof-of-concept desktop Linux version coming soon.

Posted by Romain Guy, the author of Filthy Rich Clients, Photostream from Google is a simple photos browser and viewer for Flickr. This application serves as an illustrative example of several Android features and APIs.

Asqare is a a simple game for Android. The screen is covered with colored sprites (squares or circles). When you align 3 or more in a row, all adjacents sprites of the shape & color vanish.

Android-RSS is a fully functional Android RSS reader created as a way to learn the new Android platform SDK. The target audience is primarily developers interested in further exploration of the Android SDK.

ZXing (pronounced “zebra crossing”) is an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode reader library implemented in Java. The goal is to support decoding of QR Codes, Data Matrix, and the UPC family of 1D barcodes. Working clients for Android, Java ME , iPhone, and BlackBerry devices will be provided.