A bit late I know, but here's the website for my app, mobilematics: http://mobilematics.co.uk/
On Sep 9, 6:59 am, "broc.seib" <[email protected]> wrote: > For ADC2 I created BabelSnap! for the Travel category. You use the > device's camera to snap a bit of text, whether from a public sign, a > menu, or newspaper, etc. The image is fed through an OCR, and the > resulting plain text can be translated to any language. > > http://babelsnap.com/ (Yes, the demo video has the world's > cheesiest and generic music. :-) Maybe I should have left it with no > audio! ) > > I attended GoogleIO at the end of May where I first learned about > ADC2, and received one of the Google Ion devices. Substantial prize > money plus free device -- I could not ignore the opportunity to > participate. That prize money could afford me some more help, and > maybe some better OCR that recognizes non-latin characters, and maybe > help pay some bills too! :-) > > I built BabelSnap in about 5 weeks. I had all the basic stuff > functioning in about half that time. The other half I spent learning > the idiosyncrasies of an android app -- like what happens when someone > presses the back button or home button while your background thread > (not your UI thread) is still doing processing... And having to do > manual garbage collection when manipulating/copying large images from > the camera.... And the camera API itself -- could use some > improvements in documentation, and in the API itself. (That is another > topic.) > > The version of BabelSnap I submitted to ADC works well if you can > acquire a good image for the OCR. But this takes a bit of practice, > holding the camera steady while focusing, framing the text properly, > and hitting the shutter button all at once. I want it to work a little > more "casually", and not require so much practice. The revision I am > currently working on will permit the user to assist in picking out the > relevant bits of the snapped pic that contain the text they want to > translate, by simply touching/dragging across that part of the image. > > In all, I have a very positive experience in creating an Android app. > I am impressed with what I could assemble in such a short period of > time. > > As for the deadline and submitting updates..... Google *had* the draw > the line somewhere. I could have gone on indefinitely fixing things > up. I was glad to have a hard deadline, and sad to give up some > functions that I wish could have been present for the judging. I do > like the approach of continuing to make revisions available in the > Market independent of the ADC submission. > > I also think Google has the right approach in trying to cultivate new > mobile app ideas -- everyone loves a little competition. And Google > seems serious; they've put forth a great deal of cash and hardware. > > Good luck to all. I look forward to trying out your new apps. > > -broc > > On Sep 2, 12:41 am, Lout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > While you developers relax... would you mind sharing what apps to > > expect through this challenge.. and anything else you wish to share > > about ADC2 submissions... well anything including the fact: 'thank > > God, no more sleep less nights'! > > > Am collecting information about the challenge (ADC2) for a news > > article as am with cnet (and AP). Pitch your app if you have already > > published or would soon publish on the market too. > > > Your app name and description, web link if any, experience with > > ADC2, ... anything would be useful for our article(s). > > > And do you feel that there would have been more submissions than in > > ADC1? > > Is the competition going to be tougher or less profound as you were > > allowed to put up apps not published before 1st Aug only? > > > Do you think that all apps that didn't try for ADC1 should have had a > > chance? > > > Congratulations on your submissions while you wait for the next > > phase. > > Thanks, > > Lout Reilly > > ps: Moderators we request you to let this through so that you too get > > some feedback. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
