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Android Developers Group Japan

Avi Telyas — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:16:49 +0000

Continuing my Android Books in Japan post, would like to report additional Android related activities and Groups in Japan.

Android Group Japan website and Google Group are trying to bring together Japanese developers and support each other.

Twitters use the acronymos #agj for Android Related Discussions, and there many of them.

Android books available in Japanese

Avi Telyas — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:54:10 +0000

Although Google Android phones are not available in Japan (commercially), the race to develop applications has started.

Several books are already available:

Fujitsu to offer Android related services

Avi Telyas — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:50:32 +0000

First read the news at AkihabaraNews, Fujitsu are going to offer Consulting, training, Engineering services.

The press release is here [JP], with two upcoming seminars in February. (Too bad I will arrive to Japan only at the end of February and will not be able to attend these seminars).

As Fujitsu market the Android, it is not only for Mobile phones, but as an embedded platform for several services:Point of Sale, Office equipment… almost everything

Brochure [JP] is here

Japanese Open source

Avi Telyas — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:04:10 +0000

I follow on twitter some Japanese bloggers, Open Source advocates, which allows me to get a glimpse to the Japanese Market. I found it sometimes amazing, how many original ideas are out there.

A few examples:

twigadge – A twitter sidebar
termtter – Command line twitter client, written in Ruby.
nicodown – From the same guy who wrote 2, a C file that connects and downloads video from the Japanese Nico Nico Douga website. In his website you can locate a few more handy python, perl and ruby scripts as well as a development blog (Japanese)
http://xa.yuiseki.net/ – Exteme Adhoc is the name of the website, and it is indeed extreme, you can follow schedule, twitts, locations, photos of several guys