Android

Links

• Wikipedia

App stores

• Android Market

Alternate views on the official market:

• AndroLib
• Cyrket

Alternate markets:

• AppsLib
• AndSpot (beta)
• GetJar
• Handmark
• Mobango
• Handango
• explorePDA
• MiKandi
• MobiHand
• Mobspot
• Smartphone.net
• AndroidGear
• SlideME

User manuals

• Android 2.3 Manual
• HTC Wildfire Manual
• Nexus S Manual

Nexus S

Versions

physical sticker behind battery:

• Model: GT-I9023
• FCC ID: A3LGTI9023
• SSN: -I9023GSMH
• IMEI: xxxxxxx
• S/N: xxxxxxx

under 'About phone' from the settings:

• Android 2.3.3
• Baseband I9023XXKB3
• Kernel 2.6.35.7-g1d030a7
• Build GRI54

under fastboot:

• Product name - HERRING
• HW Version - rev 52
• Bootloader version - I9020XXKA3
• Baseband version - I9020XXKB3
• Carrier info - EUR
• Serial number - xxxxxxx

Android 2.3

Wi-Fi & client certs

To be able to authenticate to a Wi-Fi network using client certificates via TLS:
If needed, export certificate from IE in Pkcs#12 PFX, *with* private key, *with* all certs, *without* strong enc, *without* deletion of private key.
Rename .pfx file as .p12
(source: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=168466&topic=27214#1086573)
Copy pkcs#12 certificate to root of USB storage.
File must end with .p12, not .pfx!
One single file with key+cert+cacerts is ok
Wi-Fi params: 802.1x EAP / TLS / phase2: None / CA cert: cf previous import / user cert: idem / Identity: DOMAIN\user... / Anonymous id: empty / password:...

Importing CA certs

I could only manage it via a webserver & crafted headers:

<?php
header("Content-Type: application/x-x509-ca-cert");
?>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

You may try this free service: http://www.realmb.com/droidCert/ which seems to do the same.
But even if imported they seem not to be used e.g. for IMAP TLS.
There is a heavier procedure to include CA certs in the phone root list, see CACert wiki, not tried yet.

fastboot

There are several binaries around but I wanted to build my own. Maybe not the shortest way... I downloaded all android sources...
cf http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
Some missing deps on my 64-but debian when I tried to compile everything: gperf, libc6-dev-i386, lib32ncurses5-dev ia32-libs g++-multilib lib32z1-dev lib32readline6-dev

. build/envsetup.sh
lunch crespo-eng
make -j2

Maybe we can just compile adb & fastboot:

make adb
make fastboot

cf http://www.cduce.org/~abate/build-android-adb-debian-sid-amd64

Applications

Here is a list of potentially useful applications

Network

• 2G-3G OnOff : widget to add a shortcut to the settings to enable/disable data

To be sorted

• Apps Organizer : To group apps
• Android Agenda Widget : See your agenda on your home screen
• Bluetooth Switch : Activates BT when the phone is docked in the car
• Bubble : Water level using the phone sensors
• Buienalarm : (NL) rain alarm, tells you if precipitations are expected at your current location
• Chrome to Phone : easy to send URL's or text from Google Chrome to the phone
• Touch Calendar : calendar with easy scroll & zoom in/out
• Notes (developer: Yuli) : simple application for notes
• ColorNote Notepad (Notes)
• Droid48 (shagrath; HP48 emulator)
• My Tracks (My Tracks Team at Google; GPS tracking system)
• Skype (Skype)
• SMS Backup & Restore (Ritesh Sahu)
• RealCalc Scientific Calculator (Brain Overspill)
• Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevitch; Linux access through a terminal)
• Hears (bytesequencing.com)
• Text-To-Speech Extension (Eyes-Free Project)
• SilentMode OnOff (CurveFish)
• DailyStrip (FuseTree LLC)
• Test de vitesse Speedtest (Ookla)
• ASTRO Gestionnaire de fichiers (Metago)
• Wifi Connecter Library (farproc)
• Advanced Task Killer (ReChild)
• APN Backup & Restore (Ritesh Sahu)

Google

• Google Goggles (Google)
• Google Earth (Google)
• Google Maps (Google)
• Google Search (Google)
• Google Sky Map (Google)
• Google Traduction (Google)
• Gmail (Google)

Alternatives to default apps

• Dialer One : Alternative dialer

Dictionaries

• Dictionnaire Littré (Alexis Robert)
• Van Dale French-Dutch (Paragon Software)
• Van Dale English-Dutch (Paragon Software)
• Van Dale Dutch Pocket (Paragon Software)
• Van Dale German-Dutch (Paragon Software)
• QuickDic German Dictionary (Thad Hughes)

Games

• Reversi (Bluesky Studio)
• Angry Birds : game, now full version for free
• Move it! Free (AI Factory Limited; logical game of moving blocks)
• National Flags Quiz (FractalGate; game)

Sensing

• Boussole (Catch.com ; compass)
• Shazam : Can identify music by listening to it for about 10s
• Barcode Scanner (ZXing Team)
• Wifi Analyzer (farproc)
• GPS Status (EclipSim)

GPS with offline maps

Commercial

• Copilot Live (59€ for Europe)
• Tomtom planned for next HTC phones, with free map of the country of purchase

Free

From this post:
Create your own maps with Mobile Atlas Creator (Java-based) & use them e.g. with RMaps, AndNav, Maverick, TrekBuddy,... (bitmaps so ok only for small areas such as cities)

• Get e.g. RMaps from Android Market
• Get latest release of Mobile Atlas Creator & unzip it
• Get latest SqliteJDBC library and copy it inside th eMobile Atlas Creator directory
• Run it (start.sh)
• Choose your source, e.g. OpenStreetMaps, Google Maps,...
• Select area: Right click to Drag, Scroll to zoom In/Out, Left click to select downloadable area
• Select one or more zoom levels, e.g. from 12 to 18 for all levels of details of a city
• Do “add selection” with a name of your choice
• Select “BigPlanet SQLite” from “Atlas Settings” (for RMaps, otherwise Maverick Atlas Format for Maverick etc)
• "Create Atlas"
• Download the .sqlitedb map into the phone SDcard/rmaps/maps
• Disconnect the phone
• Open RMaps and Menu > More > Settings > User defined maps > BigPlanet_maps.sqlitedb > Enabled Maps
• Return to main maps screen and then Menu > Maps > BigPlanet_maps.sqlitedb.

Free Navit - OSM

• Install Navit from here
• Install preprocessed OSM map from here and put it as /sdcard/navitmap.bin