Always nice for a reporter to bump into a developer who builds mobile applications for startups and gives you a live preview and details of yet-to-be-announced stuff. No worries, he has permission to talk about the apps (he thinks). The man I’m talking about is Julián Moreno from development house Droiders, and he and his team have been hacking away at some fine apps for the Android platform.
I’ll start with the most exciting one imho: Kyte, the live video streaming enabler, is making its way to Android next September, likely marking the first entry of its kind on the platform. It will enable you to stream whatever you’re shooting with the built-in video of apt devices live on the Internet and from mobile to mobile.
Another cool one is BookDroid, which is essentially a mobile ebook reader for any written work that can be found in Google Books. Coolness: you can use your phone’s camera to capture a book label and it will automatically detect the ISBN and crawl the database for the digital version.
Also in the works is an Android app for Rummble, a location-aware social search and discovery engine for places that hails from the UK but delivers worldwide.
Finally, there’s TransDroid, which is a text-to-speech / speech recognition app for Android. The latter one is the only one that is already live on Android Market, the other apps should all be ready by September this year.
I really want an Android phone, hopefully more carriers up here in Canada will have them so we can have some competition.
I Was thinkig that TransDroid is a torrent client????
It is, there are actually 2 apps with the same name.
This Transdroid is only available for the G1, which makes it the only app I’ve seen which is hardware-specific. Which sucks pretty hard tbh.
Really, really COOL apps. Here’s my order of liking:
1. BookDroid
2. TransDroid
3. Kyte
4. Rummble
By the way, why is not nothing said about Droiders? And who is this developer, is he very famous?
Text-to-speech recognition is going to be huge. I am in SEO and I know that when this technology gets really good, it’s going to change the whole game. Nice find!
How are Android app developers treated vs Iphone app developers? I recently came across a blog complaining about how Apple deals with app developers. Just curious how they compare.
Something tells me that Kyte won’t be the first to the platform…at least now that the news is out that it will appear in September.
Do you know who is going to release this kind of application earlier? Please send me any information regarding this. Thanks
The Android outside of the States looks waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy cooler than the one w/ T-Mobile in the states.
“and him and his team”?
Where did you go to school? Harvard?
Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen, actually :)
Fixed, thanks for the kind pointer.
It was mean of me to accuse you of being a Harvard alum. My apologies.
this guy is a very impressive developer, he knows more about android than anybody i have met.
Android + Google Books on a mobile device sounds like a good play against kindle. You can already read kindle books on iphone. Not sure is android supports that. If only someone can figure out a good color e-ink… we can stop cutting down trees for paper.
Lucas holds a very tight reign over the word “droid”, which is a registered trademark. Kind of sucks for people building Android apps.
Looking forward to Tuesdays Android Party in Brussels. There will be Google Phones to toy with and a few HTC mobile phones with Android insite to be given out in a raffle for those that sign up.
Where did you go to school? Harvard?