martedì 21 agosto 2012

An Android photo camera from Nikon

Nikon 800C
The Nikon s800C is a photocamera based on Android. A normal camera in the front with a big touch screen in the back with the navigation buttons.

Some features:
  • Optic zoom 12X
  • Display: 3.5"
  • Wifi
  • Android 2.3
  • GPS
  • Web browser
There isn't a slot for the SIM card so the connectivity is possible only using the WIFI, The price has not been announced yet.

Otto library for the communication inside an Android application

When an Android application become complex, the communication between the different parts of your code become difficult and in this complexity the risk of introducing bugs grows.

A tiny library called Otto and developped by Jack Warthon, helps to simplify your code and to update easily different parts of your application following an event produced by an action.

In fact you might need to update the status of several acitvities after a change in the settings. A deep explication of the communication problem and the example using Otto are published on the Square blog while the library is downloadable from GitHub and there you will find also a complete tutorial