Android Open Source Apps

"MPDroid is a really cool Android application (MPD client) that not only lets you control MPD remotely, but also lets you stream music to your Android device. Here's how to set it up." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Personal genome information application: view the specific genes and SNPs (location of potential genetic mutations or "typos") that research has linked to different conditions. Three views are available: health condition risk (Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, cancers, etc.), drug response for over 200 drugs (statins, warfarin, clopidogrel, viagra, caffeine, alcohol, etc.), and athletic performance (endurance, strength, recovery, tendon strength, etc.). Bonus: upload your 23andMe personal genome data to check your specific profile for the different conditions. (Email your 23andMe zip file to the mobile; click on the attachment in email or in downloads manager and an option to import it into DIYgenomics will appear. Delete private data later if desired from the DIYgenomics app menu.) Developers: v 3.0 Michael Kolb, Melanie Swan; v 1.0 Michael Kolb, Lawrence S. Wong, Melanie Swan. The software is open-source: https://github.com/lablogg... DIYgenomics is a non-profit... more... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"SSH provides secure access to a remote server. Both password and public key authentication are allowed. ConnectBot is an open source SSH client for Android. A key can be created in ConnectBot for use with the server. The key can be disabled at any time. This method can be performed entirely from your Android handset if you currently have password access to an SSH server. ConnectBot supports shell login and port forwarding, and file transfer is planned. Tested with ConnectBot 1.7.0, Android 2.2, and Ubuntu 10.10 Beta." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Sets up SSH key authentication using ConnectBot exclusively. Other methods require an additional file transfer program, or USB connection. - Mike Chelen

"Android and Mac/Windows/Linux: If you don't want to deal with your phone while you're at your computer, free app Android Notifier will send all your phone's call, SMS, and battery notifications to your desktop." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Well, the idea is great but setup (pairing) is not very easy ^( - Alexey Gopachenko

Are you using the Bluetooth option? WiFi setup wasn't too bad, had to use Custom Address and enter the IP of my desktop though. - Mike Chelen

"android2cloud was born from the 2010 Google I/O demo, in which Froyo was demonstrated. Froyo has a cool cloud-to-android push functionality, in which you can use an extension in chrome (or anything else really) and push the current webpage directly to your android phone, which will react intelligently. android2cloud was meant to fill the other half of that relationship. When using your android device, it is easy to come across long articles or things not suited for viewing on a phone. android2cloud hijacks the "Share" intent on android, allowing you to push those articles and webpages to your browser with the push of a button. The extension can be found here. The application is listed in the Android marketplace as "android2cloud". There is a donation app in the marketplace that is identical, and also a link on the side panel. Donations help me offer these apps for free, so thank you to everyone who has spared some change. Make sure to check out Such a GIT to keep up to date with all the developments." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

That would be great, happy to use Chrome on occasion, still Firefox gets the most daily usage. Getting links from Android to desktop is the most important, because sending links to the phone could always be done with QR code. - Mike Chelen

"The goal of Flickr Free is to create a fully-featured, open-source Flickr client for Android devices. Current features of the app are as follows: * Log in to your Flickr account(s) to view your photostream, sets, collections and favorites. * Browse and search public Flickr photos. * Set your favorites right from your phone. * Download photos to your phone. * Upload photos from your phone. * Read and add comments for photos. * Supports multiple accounts." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"A remote torrent client manager for uTorrent, Transmission, rTorrent, Vuze, Deluge, KTorrent, Tf-b4rt, etc. You can manage torrents and files and add them via URL, barcode, RSS or integrated search. Home screen widget included. (GPLv3 license)" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

It's not actually a client, but a remote control for a variety of desktop download programs. It allows adding, removing, pausing, rearranging and more of the torrents on your desktop system. An Android torrent client would be nice though, since it would save a step when copying downloaded files to the device. - Mike Chelen

"FBReaderJ is an e-book reader for the Android platform. It is a clone of the FBReader book reader written in Java. FBReaderJ was partially written as a student project at Academy of Modern Software Engineering (the project was done by Olga Melanich, Marina Sokol, Eugene Vlasov and Grigory Yaroslavtsev). FBReaderJ supports several e-book formats: oeb, epub, fb2. In future releases the list will be extended to support the same formats as the original FBReader. Direct reading from zip, tar and gzip archives is supported. FBReaderJ is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

It looks like a reference to a Russian ebook file format, FB2, which stands for "Fiction Book" http://www.fictionbook.org/index... - Mike Chelen

"We would like to list here all known Free Software applications that can be installed on an Android phone" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"This question here lists some good links to general Android applications (that I'm already looking over) but I'm interested at the moment in specifically games (board-type, intelligent games rather than action - in other words, I don't need real-time). What are the best sources for applications like that? I want to look over the source code to get myself up to speed quickly. (Please don't just Google for results, I've already done that and the pickings are a little scarce. I'm interested in anyone who's actually taken time to find and evaluate good sites for this - so ideally, you'd already be an Android developer interested in developing games)." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Pitch-Correction App for Android, automatically tune your voice!" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Tips * See comment blocks throughout the source code for documentation. More to come. * See /min3dSamples for real-world usage (This may be the best way to start). Caveats * At this stage, API may change without notice. * Targeting compatibility for Android v1.5/OpenGL ES1.0 and higher. " - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"There's no public key encryption for Android yet, but that's an important feature for many of us. APG tries to fill that hole, with new features quickly being added. Hopefully APG will grow into a fully functional implementation of GPG or PGP calibre." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Moving from Blackberry was surprised to see few built in encryption options. GPG is one way to address this on a desktop computer, and the more features brought to Android, the better security will become. - Mike Chelen

"Shelves lets you manage your collection of books from your phone. With Shelves, you can add books by scanning their barcodes, using Web searches or entering information manually. Shelves help you find books in your collection with various search capabilities including by scanning a book's barcode. It looks even better in action!" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Maybe one solution would be to export one collection to file, erase the list, then start a new collection for export to another file. - Mike Chelen

"ConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Its ultimate goal is to create a secure connection through which you can use a shell on a remote machine and transfer files back and forth to your phone." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Allows both remote SSH connections and local command line terminal. Supports key authentication and port forwarding. - Mike Chelen

"Gmote turns Android into a remote control for a computer, allowing users to run movies and music at a distance. It supports all of the standard remote control features such as play, pause, rewind, volume controls etc. It also has a built-in file browser that lets you select what to play." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet