Some time has passed since my initial investigation of Google TV. While this is still relevant, a lot is happening. OEMs are starting to show their support with different Google TV implementations and Google has also kept their partners busy with newer operating system releases.

With the traditional c model one could fork(). This would create a child and parent, the child would copy the parent's memory space and they would communicate through sockets, which were essentially files. vfork() would allow them to share the same memory space, but one at a time. Then there are also exec() and clone() that would similarly launch processes and allow for communication between them. Accurate communication proved to be very difficult, so eventually POSIX threads came to be. They brought mutex locks and semaphores to help with communication (locking). These are all very low end principles and implementing them takes a lot of care and consideration.

Google TV is a multimedia centre that takes in an HDMI feed and overlays it with the Android operating system. It attempts to connect to and communicate with a settop box (cable box) through the connecting HDMI cable. It reads channel information and controls the box by changing channels. Some Google TV devices, such as the Logitech Revue, have the ability to control your television as well. By integrating Google TV into a home theatre system, you have the ability to host native android applications and experience Chrome through your television. To interact with the device, users are given a keyboard and mouse in one controller. The controller is a standard keyboard which has had the arrow keys and numerical pad replaced with a digital arrow pad and a laptop-styled touch-pad mouse.

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Little Droid Creator was designed to showcase the dynamic engine on which it runs. This document will first describe at a high level what the game offers then we will dig down into the technical aspects of the program and talk about how it offers the high level aspects

See the results of my initial work with Google TV. This Application allows Google TV users in Canada to access their TV schedules.

The idea behind droid physics was to offer a simple physics environment that would aid early high school students to understand some of the properties of physics. In particular, acceleration, projectile motion and Friction.

Android is a framework that provides java programmers the ability to control different aspects of smart devices. This interaction happens through the Android SDK (Software Development Kit). Learn how to make an end to end experience with this tutorial.

Twitter Reader was built as a part of the Android Tutorial. It searches twitter for key words using the Twitter search API.

StarFighter (JavaScript) available online for first time. This game was designed to show case the web development knowledge I had acquired while working with Visibli. One of the things to note is the async loop class. It demostrates how scope and threading works in JavaScript.