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skylight1

Skylight1 is an open source Java mobile projects framework and collection of Android mobile applications and demos. It is associated with the NYCJava.net JUG (Java User Group) with the revenue from the project's initial application going to the NYPC Users Group, the parent organization of ... [More] NYCJava.net, a 501c3 educational non-profit. If you are a user of one our applications on the Android Market please see the UserGuide for submitting bugs, feature requests and requesting help. For screenshots and if you're a developer, scroll to the bottom. This project consists of the following sub-projects: Skylight1 OpenGL - OpenGL helper and utility classes Skylight1 DI - a dependency injection framework. Skylight1 Mocks - a set of mock objects for Android phones, including playback Skylight1 Utils - utilities such as FPS counter, remote exception stack handling Skylight1 UI - common custom UI classes, views and an upcoming view framework (in progress) Skylight1 XML - XML parsing classes (in progress) Skylight1 Server - corresponding server side projects and utils (in progress) Skylight1 Demos - api and sample demos including Barnstormer (a 3D OpenGL demo) Current Android Applications: (more to be announced) Skylight1 TDC - a test data capture application for Android phones - available here for download Skylight1 Game the initial app, a game for Android phones called "Balance the Beer" - available on the market. NYC Events - an app that lists NYC Parks, Art and Music events. - available on the market Toast - an app that helps you make a toast with your phone! - available on the market The Places and Events (P&E) Framework (ongoing project) Seven Wonders (7W) (ongoing project - a closed source skylight1 project) The 'NYC Events' application was a NYC Big App Challenge entry, thanks to all who voted! http://nycbigapps.com News: We developed and released (in 1 day, Dec 30-31, 2009) "Toast" as a result of not finding an equivalent of the "Clink-Clink" iPhone app on the Android Market - and just in time for New Years Eve. We released 'NYC Events' on the Android Market in Dec 2009. This lists NYC Parks, Art and Music events based on data provided by NYC.gov. We submitted to the http://nycbigapps.com challenge. We launched our first app, a game based on the framework to the Android Market in late Sept 2009. It's called 'Balance the Beer' and currently has over 130K downloads and reached #31 under casual games. Please give it a good rating on the market ;-) Status: Current ongoing large projects: the Places and Events (P&E) framework and Seven Wonders (7W), a 3D OpenGL game. To participate, stop by a NYC Java Meetup meeting or visit http://nycjava.net for more info. . Screenshots: NYC Events screen shots: Balance the Beer screen shots: Additional screen shots: Toast, Seven Wonders (7W) and OpenGL demo: Barnstormer . Note: all non code (e.g. graphics, text, music is licensed as Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC (Attribution, NonCommercial) except where noted in accompanying project documentation files (e.g. readme text files) where permission is specifically granted by the original copyright holder just for use on this site. Please read accompanying readme file before using. The license for all code available at this site is Apache License 2.0. You may use the code for commercial and non-commercial applications by crediting Skylight1, providing a link to this site and providing additional items as required by the license (please read the license). Developers who want to learn how to use and contribute to Skylight1, please see the DeveloperGuide Student Project Ideas List for GSOC (pending) [Less]