Screaming Penguin

The ubiquitous example yet again, a flickr photo explorer. I know there are hundreds of these of different types, but get over it. The reason there are so many is, it's cool, and it's interesting as you are developing an example to get new and different visual content each time, plus the flickr APIs make it nice for the people.

So, on with the show. This evening I created a quick non-complicated Google Wave Gadget to demonstrate how it's done, and to start hashing out examples for the next book I am writing for Manning Publications - Google Wave in Action (shhh though, that is still sort of an under the radar thing, and if *both* of you that read this blog keep it under your hat, we can keep it that way).

The gadget itself simply allows you to get the last 10 recent photos on the flickr photostream, and to refresh (Ajax style, not page refresh). It looks like this:

Let's see if I can get this to fly. If you have a Wave Preview (not Sandbox) account, and are logged in, press the button to embed the Wave:

Google recently put together a Wave developer FAQ based on common stuff from the groups and notes from a hackathon: http://wave-api-faq.appspot.com/. In it are a few new tidbits that weren't previously well documented.

Also, the have added an articles section to the API docs, it has some new stuff too, such as debugging robots and gadgets, and communicating from robot to gadget and vice versa - http://code.google.com/apis/wave/articles.html.

I answer questions on the Android developers mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers) from time to time. Often when doing so I point people to the code examples at the Unlocking Android gCode site.

Just to repeat it, so that maybe more people will realize it's there, all the code for UAD is at the site: http://code.google.com/p/unlocking-android/.

You can browse it by chapter and go right to the examples. It was written for Android 1.1, but all the examples still run fine on 1.5 and 1.6 (I haven't tried them in 2.0 yet, but plan to).

This being Temple of the Screaming Penguin (home of Jules and all), I HAVE to pass this completely f-ing awesome video along: