Google Developer Weekend: Hack and Tell
Notes from the Hack and Tell evening at C-Base that kicked off the Google Developer Weekend in Berlin.
This post is from 2011. Some of the content may be outdated.
The Google Developer Weekend started with a [Berlin Hack and Tell Special Google Edition][1] at C-Base. [1]: http://www.meetup.com/berlin-hack-and-tell/
Thanks to Deborah from http://9flats.com for the Pizza.
Here's a short list of the projects:
Friedger Muefke
http://open-accessories.com
Friedger showed how to modify google docs with google appscript and access data from a spreadsheet and send it to a blog.
Lean Engine
Mathias from lean engine showed how to cloud enable your mobile apps.
Stefan Wehrmeyer
Stefan presentedhttp://mapnificent.net, a layer over google maps which tells you what points in a city you can reach via public transport in a given time.
Stefan uses http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/ to get the timetables for public transport. Sadly the berlin transport organization BVG does not provide real time data.
wheelmap.org
wheelmap.org is a map with wheelchair accessible places. The presenter showed how to work around the android sqlite limitations to work with lat/long positions.
Launchmode
Gonsala showed launchmode, an app to help visualize android activities.
xbounds.net
xbounds is a great hack to add screensharing to mobile devices.
andengine
Johannes presented how to use andengine together with Physics Editor. It's a simple way to add physics to your games (like collision detection). Just load an image of your level to Physics Editor and load the result to andengine.
komoot.de
Jonas and Jan talked about some design decisions for http://komoot.de an outdoor navigation and route planning app.
They dropped a local database on the mobile phones in support for a thin caching layer and now get all data from their servers.
Daniel Kurka
@dankurka showed m-gwt.com. It lets you program gwt applications for mobile phones. The gwt program is compiled to html5/css and runs via phone gap on your mobile phones