product:android

How to convert a #website into an #android app from scratch?
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-convert-a-website-into-an-android-app-from-scratch-de19c84a5801?s

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In this tutorial, we will learn How to Convert a Website into an Android Application using Android Studio.If you do not know anything about Android Studio yet, Don’t worry.We will start everything from scratch.This is how the website looks like:And the Android app, we developed using Android Studio looks like:Before we begin:NOTE: If you downloaded Android Studio and already installed in your system then you can skip the part and Go to direct the coding part.If notDownload Android Studio:Google provides Android Studio for the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. You can download this software from the Android Studio homepage.Before downloading Android Studio, make sure your platform meets one of the following requirements:Windows OSMicrosoft Windows 7/8/10 (32-bit or 64-bit)2 GB RAM (...)

#web-development #technology #android-app-development

Social Beer Website ►http://untappd.com

http://untappd.s3.amazonaws.com/site/assets/v2/images/splash.jpg

Untappd is all the rage with beer nerds these days. It’s kinda like a foursquare for beer, where you “check-in” to beers, earn badges, and of course, see what (and where) your friends are drinking. The Untappd devs were kind enough to even put support in for homebrewed beers, allowing brewers to enter their own creations into the system.

... and how nerds deal with it ...

While Untappd has great Android and iOS apps, it always seemed silly to me while at home to have to find my phone every time I pulled a pint off the ole kegerator.

Untappd Kegerator ►http://www.3d0g.net/brewing/untappd-kegerator

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While surfing Seeed Studio one day, I noticed some nice hall-effect flow sensors. They were pressure safe, and made of nylon so they could handle carbonated beer with no problems. I also knew I had an extra Arduino Ethernet Shield languishing about and so the germ of an idea began to form... what if my kegerator could check-in my pours automatically?

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A little digging around the Untappd website yielded the last piece of the puzzle - an API!

►http://www.3d0g.net/_/rsrc/1341074371150/brewing/untappd-kegerator/20120628_183216.jpg?height=240&width=320

How it works:
An interrupt routine on an Arduino calculates the RPM of flow sensors installed in the tap beer lines. Once it notices a tap flowing, it performs a beer “checkin” API call to api.untappd.com, lights the corresponding LED, and begins a 5 minute “lockout” timer to prevent multiple check-ins (from topping off a pint, etc). ...

The entire howto and build manual is downloadable from the author’s website.

CalDAV-Sync
►http://dmfs.org/caldav

CalDAV-Sync is a #CalDAV client for Android to synchronize events. Due to its implementation as sync adapter it integrates seamlessly with the default calendar app.

CardDAV-Sync
►http://dmfs.org/carddav

CardDAV-Sync is a #CardDAV client for Android to synchronize contacts. Due to its implementation as sync adapter it integrates seamlessly with the default contacts app.

Deux applis #android qui permettent de synchroniser ses contacts et ses calendriers via son propre serveur caldav ou carddav, donc sans stocker ces informations chez Google. Le prix est modique, et une fois en place ça fonctionne très bien avec #owncloud par exemple.

There’s no such thing as Android, only Android-compatible
►http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/12/theres-no-such-thing-as-android-only-android-compatible.ars

Right at this moment, we have brand-new, state-of-the-art, highly evolved mobile and portable devices in a range of form factors that are based on at least three different major releases of #Android. Support for updating existing #devices to the newest version of Android is all over the map, even for devices made by the same manufacturer, like Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and tablets.

Tablets with fully skinned, proprietary operating systems like Amazon’s Kindle Fire or Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color/Nook Tablet only amplify the diversity that was already present in the smartphone market.

ZDNet’s Ed Bott argues that for manufacturers and carriers, supporting indefinite at-will updates to the latest version of Android just doesn’t make economic sense:

The problem with Android is all that #freedom, which allows hardware makers to take the OS and do whatever they want with it. It is inevitable that that freedom will produce a plethora of devices. Some of them will be incapable of running a new Android update. In other cases that #upgrade will require significant engineering investments—time and money—on the part of the handset maker and the carrier. They might decide to spend the money and deliver the update, six months later. Or they might decide that the investment isn’t worth it.

SparkleShare - Sharing work made easy
►http://sparkleshare.org

Un outil opensource pour se monter un cloud perso sur github, un serveur perso etc (fonctionne sous ubuntu, mac, android et win$ à venir).

#cloud #opensource #ubuntu #android

►http://www.androidenea.com/2009/06/android-boot-process-from-power-on.html

The Android boot process from power on

Since mobile platforms and embedded systems has some differences compared to Desktop systems in how they initially start up and boot this post will discuss the initial boot stages of an #Android phone in some detail.

Roboto, la police d’Android 4.0 serait un monstre à quatre têtes.

Roboto is a Four-headed Frankenfont | Typography Commentary | Typographica
►http://typographica.org/2011/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-four-headed-frankenstein

Just in time for Halloween, from the depths of the Android 4.0 laboratory emerges a frightening cross-breed creature called Roboto.

http://typographica.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Roboto1.gif

I’m all for the strategy of developing a unique identity typeface, and I commend Google for employing type designers in house, but this is an unwieldy mishmash. Roboto indeed has a mixed heritage, but that mix doesn’t have anything to do with the gibberish from the press release. Its parents are a Grotesk sans (like a slightly condensed Helvetica) and a Humanist sans (like Frutiger or Myriad). There’s nothing wrong with combining elements of these two styles to create something new. The crime is in the way they were combined: grabbing letters — almost wholesale — from the Grotesque model, along with a Univers-inspired ‘a’ and ‘G’, welding them to letters from the Humanist model, and then bolting on three straight-sided caps à la DIN.

#typographie

Is Android really free software? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/android-free-software-stallman

The non-release of two versions’ source code raises concern that Google might intend to turn Android proprietary permanently; that the release of some Android versions as free software may have been a temporary ploy to get community assistance in improving a proprietary software product. Let us hope does not happen.

Official #Google Blog : When patents attack Android
►http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html

la guerre des #brevets dans la téléphonie mobile

Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against #Android by #Microsoft, #Oracle, #Apple and other companies, waged through bogus #patents.

They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the “Rockstar” group including Microsoft and Apple), to make sure Google didn’t get them; seeking $15 licensing fees for every Android device; attempting to make it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android (which we provide free of charge) than Windows Phone 7; and even suing Barnes & Noble, HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it.

A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and our competitors want to impose a “tax” for these dubious patents (...)

This anti-competitive strategy is also escalating the cost of patents way beyond what they’re really worth. The winning $4.5 billion for Nortel’s patent portfolio was nearly five times larger than the pre-auction estimate of $1 billion. (...)

(...) We’re encouraged that the Department of Justice forced the group I mentioned earlier to license the former Novell patents on fair terms, and that it’s looking into whether Microsoft and Apple acquired the Nortel patents for anti-competitive means. We’re also looking at other ways to reduce the anti-competitive threats against Android by strengthening our own patent portfolio.

Easy as pi: how Google bid against Apple and Microsoft for patents | Technology | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/02/google-pi-auction-bid

“In light of Android’s patent problems it’s surprising that Google didn’t outbid everyone else. It could have afforded more than $4.5 billion but it doesn’t appear to be truly committed to Android.”

Love that : “google patent problem” is everyone on earth “patent problem”. Nobody should have to pay that amount of money for a stack of paper describing ideas. Those articles make me sick.