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INTRODUCTION:

This sourcecode is intended to help port Freenet to android platform. As you can see it is still a work-in-progress.
Since freenet uses a lot of open-source API's which are not supported on Android platform, it is a tedious task to get an android port working.

For example, android does not support javax.naming API and java.awt API!! These have to be either built for ARM architecture or we will have to use alternate APIs provided in Android SDK.
(android.graphics replaces java.awt and supports most of the functions supported by awt). Also, alternatives for battery and processor intensive code should be thought out. 
(db4O API might turn out to be an irritant here)

The above project is an eclipse project (eclipse enabled with Android-SDK support). It generates a lot of errors saying a particular package is missing or a particular library is not supported and so on.
So, the task is simplified by this implicit feature of Eclipse IDE by breaking down the task into sub-tasks. The plan is to look into one error at a time and fix the particular error for android. 
If you are looking for Freenet source code, you can find it here: https://github.com/freenet/fred-staging

Open for suggestions and comments!
 
TESTING:

I have a folder in the project above containing the 'tar'red files of test projects. Each of these .tar files contain sample code pertaining to test a particular change to the libraries and also the generated APK. These are tested to work on Galaxy Nexus i9250 mobile.
If  anyone wants to test further you can use this code as base.

Note: The APK is located in the bin folder inside the tar file