O'machi document has been updated.

Hi, guys~ I just updated our O'machi document in O'machi web site. You are now able to download the PDF version which is more clearer then the HTML one. Please feel free to download it by the link or go to O'machi web site. We are looking forward to seeing your feedbacks. :)

Talking to O'machi GTalk Robot

If you felt that the O'machi GTalk Robot is kind of annoying because of the continuous RSS feed updates notifications, don't worry, and please don't block it up. If you just blocked it up, your android emulator would not be able to get the just-in-time notifications from O'machi server. 

It's really easy to get rid of the it. Please just ask O'machi robot by sending her a "help". You'll get the answer.  ;)

We are still  working on the enhancement of O'machi GTalk robot. Soon you will be able to touch more services of O'machi by simply sending the commands to the robot, even manage the mobile data within your Android phone.

My O'machi life

O'machi is now attending at ADC, the most important part of the project is the Android application, but actually the whole concept of O'machi life is deeply depending on the server side functionalities, such as profile/contacts/Memo sync, background sync, just-in-time notifications of friends' status and RSS subscription updates on both cell phone and GTalk. We believe that people will enjoy Android-based cell phones in the future, however, cell phones are not the only stuff that could connect people to the world; emails, instant messages and browsers are the other popular tools in the modern world as well. Therefore, we develop O'machi to be the personal information tool and also a social platform that provides users not only the way to maintain their mobile data in the web site, but also a platform to connect with their friends by GTalk, Email and browsers.

On O'machi server side, we have web server, sync engine, GTalk robot, Android Intent sender/receiver, RSS feeds collector and a social networking engine. So, besides the efforts on the Android application, actually we have been taking quite much efforts on developing the O'machi server. There are 5 people in jCoolMobi team, 1.5 manpower on Android application and the other 3.5 manpower on the sever side. Yes, the guy who took care of the 0.5 manpower on both sides was me :). Maybe this is not a pretty good tactic to develop an application for ADC by this way, since the judges might only pay attentions to the Android application, and we spent less manpower on this side. The reason is that I think we need to build up a firm enough infrastructure for O'machi service first, and then we can put more novel ideas into the service easier in the future. We develop O'machi not only for ADC, but also for fun and the future. Anyway, hopefully we will have chance to show our future ideas in ADC round 2.

Announcing O'machi Social Networking Contacts

Hey, guys, this is our first project for Android Developer Challenge. We've been working on O'machi for couple of months in our spare time. We finally submitted our peoject on time. It's so exciting to join this challenge, and see the other talented ADC developers' brilliant submissions. we really enjoyed the whole development process for ADC, and will definitly keep going for our future works.

Soon the demo apk will be available for download. We will keep you posted on the status of O'machi in this blog, and share our Andoird experiences here. Thanks for coming, and we appreciate your kindly comments for O'machi.

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