Android :: Announcement / Open Source Micro Framework For Android

We developed the popular mobile travel application TripCase (http:// www.tripcase.com) natively for the iphone, backberry, winmo, and recently Android. We really like the Android framework compared to the others, but found some of it's concepts like Activities to be very cumbersome when dealing with screen based applications like ours. We have many forms and workflows, lots of viewable and editable data, and we make many calls to our back-end Rails server. In order to streamline our development efforts on Android we created a small convention-based micro-framework which we are calling DynaDroid and would like to open it up to the Android community for use.
http://code.google.com/p/dynadroid/

Here are some of the features that you get with DynaDroid:

* The entire micro-framework is housed within a singe Activity, so sharing data between screens is finally easy again.
* Code by convention and all your xml layouts and menus are dynamically available.
* Screen management for pushing, popping, and swapping screens (all with transition animations).
* Screen orientation (landscape, portrait) can be controlled on a screen by screen basis.
* Error reporting support built-in, so if your app crashes a report is sent to you.

And there is more to come:

* More dynamic coding conventions - let's get rid of all those if/ else and case statements!
* Built-in screen analytics for tracking user interaction
* Simplified device to server communication with xml/json parsing and automatic error handling * Extensions to Android UI components without all the plumbing
* Easier to use api for interacting with device capabilities (camera, gps, phone, etc.)

We would love your feedback on the micro-framework. So please let us know what you would like in the future. And if you have any questions or issues our Google group is located here:
http://groups.google.com/group/dynadroid
Remember DynaDroid is already being used in the production Android application TripCase, so it's been thoroughly tested and is ready for prime-time.