Thanks dimity what you are doing is cool. Marcus we should buy an android device or get one: Olivier has one I think.
>> - keyboard improvements : no way to get alt or ctl key working so far > > Some code for keyboard support has been written since, but maybe it > was not included in the pre-generated apks. Once I add more features, > I'll release another apk. And sources (on gitorious) are always there > for those wanting to mess with Android build tools ;) > >> - new theme for tablet (bigger fonts, bigger scrollbars etc) (I started to >> look at this) > > Yes, this would be nice to have. And take a look at Honeycomb/ICS: > maybe some ideas may be learned from their GUIs. The new trend seems > to be to expose additional controls somewhere on the screen once the > context for them is right * (e. g. when a downloaded file is selected > by touching, icons to delete or share it appear somewhere). Also see > the new gmail web interface. > >> - new smalltalk tools : browser, finder inspector (I will try a small >> Glamourous browser ) > > It would be nice if a smaller base Pharo image could be built such > way, so it could be embedded with VM and distributed together. yes we are working slowly but steadily on that. Did you try the pavel image? > >> - reduce cpu usage (suspend/awake pharo process ? ) > > I think Android takes care of it itself: once an application is > invisible it is suspended automatically. Or did you notice any > performance degradation? > >> - interface to android content providers (audio, video, calendar data etc) > > Working on it ;) In fact, there is a (partial) interface to the intent > system, so a home screen shortcuts can be added to start CogDroid with > given image and startup arguments. Reading from Android clipboard has > been committed to the HEAD (but there is no support via context menu > yet). > > Thanks again. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > * That is, when e. g. a text edit box is active, items of the context > menu appear somewhere on screen. Maybe halos could be revived with > this new meaning? > > -- > Dimitry Golubovsky > > Anywhere on the Web >
