Google Announces Apps For Android

Determined to enhance the development of the Android, Google has announced the Apps for Android package, a collection of sample applications for its mobile platform. Apps for Android will show the different aspects of the said platform and display the possibilities of what can be done with it. One such application is Wikinotes, descibred as a "wiki note pad that uses intents to navigate to wiki words and other rich content stored in the notes."

WikiNotes for Android was written to demonstrate a number of core concepts in Android, including:

Multiple Activities in an Application (View, Edit, Search, etc.)
Default intent filters for View/Edit/Search based on MIME types
Life cycle of Activities
Message passing via Bundles in Intents
Use of Linkify to add Intent-firing links to text data
Using Intents within an application
Using Intents to use an Activity within another application
Writing a custom ContentProvider that implements search by note title
Registration of ReST-like URIs to match titles, and do contents searches
SQLite implementations for insert, retrieve, update, delete and search
UI layout and creation for multiple activities
Menus and keyboard shortcuts

As always, we'll keep you posted on the latest Android news and developments.

Source: Talk Android

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