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PocketPlay available for download

z3r0blog — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:35:33 +0000

some weeks ago, we have been approached by a designer who came up with a really good concept for an mobile music player. what if you had interface, so clean, so reduced that you could use it blindly. an interface where you just know where the buttons are, even if half asleep. enter PocketPlay.

A common scenarion: you ride a train (to work? to home? to nowhere? ), listening to music. a track comes up that doesn’t fit you mood. now what:

1) you fiddle out your mp3 player from your jacket, unlock the screen, figure the right button, press skip.

2) you reach in your pocket, skip the track.

I totally jumped at that, as it happens to me frequently, and the average smartphone doesn’t come with dedicatet next/previous buttons. Not even all dedicated music players have this, and if they do, it’s often really small stuff. With PocketPlay, you’ll easily find your way to the right music.

Of course this somehow all rotates around playlists, and if you had the “pleasure” of using the default music player of the android OS, you’ll propably agree that creating and managing playlists is not intuitive at all. (ok, i’m addicted to winamp 2.0, but still.) So I came up with a more “standard” feeling solution – and though it’s still pretty rough, it’s way ahead of the complicated GUI you get with default player.

So if you’re curious, give it a try! Pocketplay is available through the Android Market or the openintents download page now. Other download sites will follow.

android is opensource

z3r0blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:06:26 +0000

sooo cool. made my day.

you can propably expect some sort of “android zero edition” sometime next year. muhahahaha

“hack the planet!”

android 0.9 – a late night surprise

z3r0blog — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:53:07 +0000

as you may have already seen, there’s a lot of buzz now with the new public sdk of google’s android. sdk 0.9 beta 1 is out now and ready for download . if you thought the “choosen 50″ from adc round 1 new about this beforehand, well think again. the first sign of the new version was a post on the developers mailing list about an error with an auto (??) update of the eclipse plugin ( personally, i don’t use eclipse, so wasn’t aware of anything). then i came back to my workstation for a late night check of emails, things started to get nasty. apparently there are quite a few api changes – i might post a selection of them later. thanks to my fellow co-workers at openintents we’re up and running again right now.

hooray for the team !