Open Source Software for Mobile Phones

Replica Island game for Android

Wendong Li — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:18:29 +0000

Replica Island is a free, open-source game for Android. Guide the Android robot through 40 action-packed platforming levels on a quest to discover a secret power source on a mysterious island. With an retro style and unique, challenging game play, Replica Island is a new take on the classic platformer genre.

ARKit - an open source augmented reality library

Wendong Li — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:30:44 +0000

iPhone ARKit is a small set of class that can give you augmented reality in any iPhone application. The kind of augmented reality that ARKit caters to is overlay of information (usually geographic) over a camera view. The background camera view acts as a “window” onto the world around you.

A version for Android is also available.

appMobi open source HTML5 app gallery

Wendong Li — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:24:17 +0000

appMobi is a new open source library of demonstration mobile apps that were created with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. As a supplement to Apple’s HTML5 gallery, these demonstrations illustrate how new web technologies can be used to create world-class compelling mobile experiences, obviating the need for Adobe Flash on mobile devices.

core-plot: graphing library for iPhone

Wendong Li — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:32:46 +0000

Core Plot is a plotting framework for Mac OS X and iPhone OS. It provides 2D visualization of data, and is tightly integrated with Apple technologies like Core Animation, Core Data, and Cocoa Bindings.

openlapi - location aware software for mobile devices

Wendong Li — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:36:25 +0000

OpenLAPI is most commonly used to access Bluetooth GPS devices from mobile devices, whilst retaining a high level of source code compatibility with JSR-179. OpenLAPI also has a range of backends for emulating location in development environments, making it a popular tool for J2ME developers.

The emulator mode supports the following back-ends for determining location:-

Access of hardware GPS device over bluetooth (if available)
Emulate a moving device from an NMEA log file (recorder application provided).
Emulate a moving device from a predefined trail in a Google Earth file KML.
Emulate a moving device by picking random entries from a persistent store

And the software may be shipped as part of a MIDlet (Java application) to provide location awareness.

Bombus - Jabber Client

Wendong Li — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:11:05 +0000

Bombus is a free software instant messaging client based on XMPP. Its website is in Russian but there is an English help page.
SVN: http://svn.xmpp.ru/repos/bombus/trunk

There is also Bombus NG (New Generation) for Windows Mobile (written in C++). It is also open sourced under GNU GPL.
SVN: http://svn.xmpp.ru/repos/bombus-ng/trunk

scriptme - JavaScript Interpreter for Java ME

Wendong Li — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:54:59 +0000

ScriptME is an open-source implementation of EcmaScript based on FESI Project written entirely in Java for the J2ME Platform. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users.

Rhodes open mobile framework

Wendong Li — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:49:28 +0000

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.

tweetero - open source Twitter client for iPhone

Wendong Li — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:29:05 +0000

Tweetero is an open source Twitter client for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch released by ImageShack Corp.

MYCrypto - cryptography for iPhone

Wendong Li — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:08:06 +0000

MYCrypto is a high-level cryptography API for Mac OS X and iPhone. It’s an Objective-C wrapper around the system Keychain and CSSM APIs, which are notoriously hard to use, as well as CommonCrypto, which is easier but quite limited.