OpenIntents

Droid-Fu is an open-source effort aiming to collect and bundle solutions to common concerns in the development of applications.

Droid-Fu offers both support classes meant to be used alongside existing Android code, as well as self-contained, ready-to-be-used components like new adapters and widgets.

http://github.com/kaeppler/droid-fu

A very thin yet complete xmlrpc client side library for Android platform.

http://code.google.com/p/android-xmlrpc/

An OAuth Library/application for Android which uses Content Providers in order to store OAuth data

http://github.com/novoda/oauth_for_android

Note, that you can also use SignPost for Android when just making OAuth calls (see http://github.com/kaeppler/signpost)

RESTProvider handles all the HTTP querying and caching. Users can seamlessly interface with any Web Service API which provides JSON or XML as a response. To query a RESTProvider in an activity a user need only specify an endpoint and then query an APIs RESTful functions.

http://github.com/novoda/RESTProvider

As described on the OpenIntents mailing the Android team posted a blog about using intents (and did not mentioned openintents.org).

During the droidcon in Berlin dependency management was discussed as well. Hopefully, all these discussions will take Android a step forward.

Please check also

• the Android blog post and a reply by unwesen
• the thread on the android-discuss mailing list
• the feature request at the android issue list

OpenIntents is part of organization team for the Android event droidcon 09 in Berlin, Germany.
The first android business and developer conference in Berlin/Germany takes place 4 November 2009. The day before a droidcamp, i.e. an Android barcamp is organized. The whole event will be organized by developers, experts from telecommunication industry and press members. From now on all interested developers can register for the barcamp for free. Tickets for the business conference are also available at 99,00 Euro each. Detailed informations are given at www.droidcon.de or www.droidcon.com.

Today also the official "call for papers" starts - for details please visit the droidcon website at www.droidcon.de/en/call-for-papers.

We recently published Obscura, a new picture safe for Android. Obscura uses OI Safe to encrypt images, similar to how you encrypt your private notes in OI Notepad through OI Safe. Obscura uses the same master key and password as OI Safe. Therefore it is important that you back up the master key of OI Safe by entering OI Safe and pressing menu > more > backup. Otherwise you will not be able to recover your photos after a phone reset.

The free trial version is limited to 10 encrypted images. You can upgrade to the full version by buying a license from Android Market or from OpenIntents.biz.

TimeXChange is a new plugin for the Timesheet application. It lets you connect and synchronize to your TimeXchange.net account. Use it to download your tasks and upload times.

We welcome a new application in the OpenIntents series: OI Safe is the successor of Android Password Safe. It protects your passwords and other private data with AES encryption. All encrypted information is stored in a database on the phone. No information is kept online.

OI Safe works together with the latest version of OI Notepad: If you have both applications installed on your phone, you can encrypt your notes with the same password that you use in OI Safe. The password actually never leaves the safe, so this is a very secure way to protect your private notes. For details, see CryptoIntents.

Recently, we have released the first version of OI About and updated the following applications:

OI About 1.0.0: Display version information, links, credits, and license.
OI Newsreader 1.0.8: Critical update: Time restriction removed. Additional Features (Mark all as read, Purge old Data).
OI Updater 1.0.2: Performance; download from default shop.
OI Convert CSV 1.0.1: Support for Outlook Notes Format.
Timesheet 1.0.2: Scheduled jobs, reminder, expenses.
Splashplay 1.0.4: Time restriction removed.