r3dux.org

Well, kinda. It’s certainly easy to get up and running with the Android SDK and Eclipse with the ADT Plugin (Android Development Tools), as long as you know a little Java. Even the GUI stuff is all drag-and-drop, which I really quite liked.

To knock together a quick celcius<–>fahrenheit converter (from never having developed on Android to installing the tools and being up and running in less than an hour):

1. Read this…
2. …which guides you step-by-step on how to build this:

   

   

This has got me wondering how easy it is to integrate OpenGL ES into an Android app, which would be a pretty spiffy weekend project I reckon…

I look forward to seeing this on LeeDrOiD (and hence my HTC Desire) in about a week =D

Also, two dot three? Really? What’s wrong with point?

Fun! I’d like to have a copy of Google Earth that could cache more than 2GB of data though, so I could zoom in on anywhere with top-end clarity. That or a reallllllly fast pipe…

I’m still not sure how useful this mash-up collaborative editing stuff will be to the average user, but it’s still pretty cool, and the video’s kinda funny

If you fancy a go, just head on over to https://wave.google.com/wave and start mashing!

Update: Or not. Google Wave is now pretty much dead. Guess no-one else found it useful either…

And fair play – I think he really deserves it