Here was the final developer presentation from Ravi at RavWare Software Inc. Ravi takes development to a new level as he looks at it from the embedded side of things and talks about using Android on embedded devices such as the use with RFIDs.
Wanted to post out our videos from the Chicago GTUG event we attended on Saturday. This was a great event if you ignore the fact that Google gave away free Motorola Droids. Here are some of the videos from the final presentations by the developer groups, complete with an empty canada dry ginger ale bottle.
Note these are videos on UStream. If you need to view these you need the Ustream Viewer application.
Please note that these videos were streamed live on my Nexus One over a wifi connection to Ustream and afterwards uploaded to Ustream. My battery went dead during the recording of Ravware's presentation, however we may be able to salvage some more videos on Grant's droid and get those up to UStream. We are currently trying.
Chicago Google Technology User Group (#ChiGTUG) is proud to present Android development workshops and hackathon. We are lucky here in Chicago to have a very vibrant community of Android phone developers, in big part due to presence of major corporations like Google, Motorola and IBM as well as many entrepreneurs.
Chicago Android workshops and eco-challenge hackathon
Date: Saturday, February 06, 2010 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CT)
Location: OfficePort Chicago 9 W. Washington Chicago, IL Chicago IL
Depending on how it goes I may be live streaming some of what I see there to you on our Ustream account. Stay tuned and we will let you know how it goes at the end of the day.
If you are like me and you have an Outlook Exchange system at work, then you may have noticed that depending on the Android OS version you have your contacts don't necessarily come into your phone, unless you have Android 2.1. However even in that version the contacts are still not always linked up perfectly.
Here are some steps you can take to do this.
Go to File > Import and Export
Select Export to a File, and click Next
Select Comma Separated Values (Windows) and click Next
Select folder to Export from : Contacts and click Next
Save exported file as : save to somewhere on your desktop, it does not matter what the name is and click Next
Click Finish
Go into your Gmail account
Enter your Contacts
Click on the Import hyperlink on the upper right of the screen
Choose File : open up the file you saved on your desktop and click Open
At this point you can chose if you want to place the imported contacts into a new contact group
Click Import
If you decided to do a new contact group you are prompted to enter the new name of this group
Click Ok after the import is completed
Your contacts have now been imported you can now manage them from within Google and reverse the process as well. In addition you can also merge contacts within Google for any duplicated contacts that were not caught through the import.
