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.
> 
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> * 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
> 
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> 


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