With a number of Android applications laying incomplete in my digital atelier, I felt a pang when Dan Morrill announced that the Android Developer Challenge 2 was open for submissions on Twitter. I’d had no intention of entering the competition until I read that tweet and felt personally challenged. Rashly, I decided that I could get Moseycode integrated and the rest of the application adapted for ADC2 in a handful of long evenings.
It’s too early to say whether I’m going to make it yet, but I’m glad I’m shooting for it. This is one of the products of my rapid labour: the ability to publish flowers from your garden as pictures that you can share. Anyone else with the application can import the flower directly from the in-built Gallery application or by scanning the picture with their phone camera.
I really like the idea of this sort of sharing - where the artefact is both appreciable by people and machine readable. I don’t know how it’s going to pan out yet, but you can expect more of this approach from my next applications (and not necessarily via moseycodes either).
