Android 2011

Vad har utvecklare att se fram emot med Android under 2011? Vi tar en titt på möjligheterna med vad den senaste hårdvaran för mobilen och den senaste Android versionen kan göra tillsammans. 3D, cloud och gingerbread är några av sakerna vi kommer gå igenom. 
Erik Hellman, SonyEriksson

Easy Black-box testing with Robotium for Android (pdf)

This session shows how Robotium relates to standard Android instrumentation tests, and details how it can be used in real life. Guaranteed: Live test coding with real application. Before Robotium, instrumentation tests on the Android platform had to be too tightly coupled with the tested application's implementation. It is now possible to write true Black-box tests, with no previous information about how the application under test is implemented. The tests we create in this session focus on what the screen looks like, and what the user really does, rather than individual component id's or ordering within the UI layout.
Renas Reda, Jayway

Opportunistic Networking with Android (pdf)

In this work we present a middleware architecture for a mobile peer-to-peer content distribution system. Our architecture allows wireless content dissemination between mobile nodes without relying on infrastructure support. Contents are exchanged opportunistically when nodes are within communication range. Applications access the service of our platform through a publish/subscribe interface and therefore do not have to deal with low-level opportunistic networking issues or matching and soliciting of contents. Our architecture consists of three key components. A content structure that facilitates dividing contents into logical topics and allows for efficient matching of content lookups and downloading under sporadic node connectivity. A solicitation protocol that allows nodes to solicit content meta-information in order to discover contents available at a neighboring node and to download content entries disjointedly from different nodes. An API that allows applications to access the system services through a publish/subscribe interface. In this work we describe the design and implementation of our architecture. We also discuss potential applications and present evaluation results from profiling of our system. Ólafur Helgason is a PhD student at the Laboratory for Communication Networks at KTH, Stockholm. His research focuses on how content can be disseminated opportunistically in mobile wireless networks and how mobility affects wireless communication. Ólafur likes the free and the open: software, beer and the great outdoors.
Ólafur Helgason, KTH