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Android Can Open Garage Doors Now, WHAT!?
Not only is Android a great open platform that very well may be the future of smartphones. Not only does Android intertwine Google’s Services so well. Android can now open garage doors. I mean it’s an obvious conclusion right? Android and a Garage Door Opener goes about as good as Android and Gmail or Android and the Market.
All jokes aside, Brad Fitzpatrick is the one who hacked Android into doing the simple garage door opening task. The G1 uses Wi-Fi to fire up an HTTP request to his home server which in turn tells the garage door to open. Neat huh? Leave your keys and garage door at home folks, the G1 can do it all. Even better, in true Android fashion Brad released the source code.
What’s next? What task would be ridiculous to see Android and the G1 do?
[Gizmodo]
Android Source Code Released
One of Android’s biggest selling point, if not THE biggest selling point was the fact that the operating system was going to be open-source. Being open source may or may not make a difference in consumer’s minds but with developers who have that need to tinker and improve, well Android is the place to do it.
Google has released the full source code for Android available to download NOW. With the release of the G1 and the world’s introduction to Android just right around the corner, now is as good a time as any to make good on the promise to be “open”. Game on, Android.
