Learning about Android

Google發表了一套以開放原始碼技術為基礎的行動電話軟體Android，並已取得全球無線產業數家公司(HTC、Samsung、LG)的支持。但Nokia、Apple、Palm 和 Microsoft 不在這個 33 間公司的名單中。

今天我找到一些關於Android Architecture的information:

Androidology - Part 1 of 3 - Architecture Overview

Androidology - Part 2 of 3 - Application Lifecycle

Androidology - Part 3 of 3 - APIs

A first hand look at building an Android application

Microsoft Office Addin for Saving Files to Google Docs

I think the idea of Google Docs is good and it has a big advantage for collaboration on same document.

However, since Google Docs is a web application, no matter how to improve AJAX, it still have some limitation on the UI.

I think this is the reason why Google Pack include Star Office. I guess goggle may put some effort to integrate Google Doc with Star Office / Open Office.  

Today, I have an idea to write a plugin for Microsoft Office, so that I can save the MS Word document directly to google docs or directly open a document from google doc.

After doing some research I found it is possible because Google release some API

http://code.google.com/apis/documents/developers_guide_protocol.html#UploadingDocs

Unfortunately, it did not provide .NET API. May be I need to implement one by myself…

I also found some article which tell me how to build an addin for Microsoft Office using .NET

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/addin_office_using_csharp.asp

All API is ready, it is time to implement it la….