Hackathons Birth New Tools For ‘Occupy’ Movement | TPM Idea Lab

The “Shouty” app, developed by Nathan Hamblen, a platform engineer at New York-based online event planning platform Meetup.com, is still in its bare-bones beta stage, but, works by converting an Android smartphones microphone input into a live mp3 stream, which gets broadcasted to everyone who has the app. It’s available for download here on GitHub, but as Hamblen himself notes on the description: “The interface is really terrible. Can you (yes you!) please fork and make it better?”

Seriously! Are you guys going to make me learn how to correctly implement long-running background tasks in Android when it sort of works fine for a while to just spin threads off an activity?