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Tea.ch Cards, Android Application

ptea — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:11:52 +0200

Tea.ch Cards is an application to learn facts with flash cards. It tries to find out how long you can keep cards in your mind. It will expire cards just before you cannot recall it.

Keep cards in different decks. The program will manage and schedules expired cards for learning.

With an Android phone with you, learn cards anywhere and anytime. It is using an adaptive algorithm to find out the time spacing needed.

Application for Android Market

ptea — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:58:00 +0200

Android is coming soon and with it the Android Market. I intend to release an application for the Market.

To learn Chinese I have bought a flash cards software for my Windows Mobile 2003 phone. In fact I bought two but one was not of much help. The one I use is very usefull but lacks some features I really miss. I couldn't find a replacement.

After looking at the latest Android SDK SDK 0.9, I decided to implement one myself. I call it Tea.ch Cards it picks flash cards which are new to you and shows it to you, it also decides when to schedule the cards for the next encounter according your answers. It tries to find out how long you can keep remembering that card. Similar to the Supermemo applications but using a search algorithm instead of a formula. Maybe that's not an algorithm everyone might trust in the beginning, so I added the leithner algorithm with deck time spacing as well.

Using WebView to display help contents from the assets folder. You can browse the applications help pages here I put up a start page for online contents at tea.ch/cards

All New Android! SDK with new UI and API

ptea — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:29:01 +0100

The long awaited Android SDK release is out. I wasn't doing anything since for about a month and was waiting for that new SDK. and new API. Today I donloaded and installed new Google Android SDK. After after the first start I thought what's that? The icons are so ugly!

And launching the poker calculator, (an application with the least modification needed to make it run with the new API)

Android Developer Challenge Submission

ptea — Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:10:04 +0100

I submitted my first Android application to the Android Developer Challenge. Here is the accompanying readme document. It is still unfinished but the player is playable. I eventually will update my submission when the application has further evolved.
It could be that I'm not allowed to participate because of the affiliate clause of Terms and Conditions of the challenge.

Google Android

ptea — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:25:50 +0100

Instead of announcing a new phone, Google presented a new mobile operating system called Android last year. An early preview of a software developers kit has been published a week later as well, for the developers to experiment with. Java is exclusively used to write applications for Android. It has been almost two months since. Some developers complained about bugs and insufficient documentations.

True, there are bugs and unimplemented features and the documentation is incomplete. What did they expect from (pre)alpha versions? I too played around with the SDK and ran into some bugs and problems.