[Mep-dev] Android on Ubuntu, Eclipse currently eclipsed, station discovery software

[Michelle]

Paul KB5MU noticed this article, and I thought I'd pass it along. 

"Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu"

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, Canonical has unveiled a prototype Android execution environment that will allow Android applications to run on the Ubuntu Linux distribution...

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/05/canonical-developers-aim-to-make-android-apps-run-on-ubuntu.ars

In other news, I haven't yet figured out the problem with getting Eclipse, the IDE I'd prefer to use, working on Moblin v2 Beta. It does not progress past the splash/loading screen. 

I did, however, make some good progress on drafting the software requirements for the discovery application. I'll share a draft later today. 

-Michelle W5NYV