Tag: android
- How to fix the dreaded 'package appears to be invalid' error while installing Android APKs (10 Apr 2024)
When you try to manually install an Android APK on your phone, you are typically stuck with an error similar to this: Stack Overflow is filled with posts like this, this and this one but apparently, there seems to be no consensus regarding the cause or even a generally accepted... - Kiwixotherapy: A weird but working therapy for introverts suffering from sleeplessness (14 Jan 2023)
If you’re an introvert who is suffering from both sleeplessness and also low self-esteem or impostor syndrome, I want to suggest you this therapy which I recently landed upon myself and seen many people recover from their insomnia or sleeplessness problem using it, and leading much happier and energized days... - How to clear individual site cookies on android firefox (05 Sep 2020)
One might wonder why an entire blog post is needed for a simple matter of clearing cookies on a web browser in the 21st century. But believe it or not, such are the state of things when it comes to android browsing! Firefox is a great browser to have on... - How to install Debian+LXDE on ANY Android Tablet (05 Jul 2017)
Running a linux distro on android devices is a hot topic these days, and why not? After all, android is already based on linux kernel, but a pretty much locked-down and dumbed-down version of it. The OEM doesn’t give you root and in most cases, not even an open source... - How to Unbrick and revive a totally lifeless Xiaomi Mi-Pad (13 Jul 2016)
Last week, my brand new Xiaomi Mi-Pad arrived via Flipkart and no sooner did I have it in my hands, I started installing useful apps like Greenify, ES File Explorer, etc. Two days went by and I was disappointed to learn that it doesn’t support a USB Dongle (Data Card)... - 4 Ways to share your mobile internet with a PC/laptop (20 Dec 2014)
The one thing I like about the world of Linux in general and also Android is the great number of options. Unlike Windows phone, where there is only one way to perform a task (if at all there is!), android provides a richer user experience in all departments. Suppose you... - 7 Reasons I would prefer an Android Phone over WP8 (19 Dec 2014)
My existing phone is a Karbonn A30 running Android ICS and my next phone is going to be an Android phone too. Both as a user and as a developer, I’ve come upon the realization that Android provides a much better user experience and overall satisfaction in mobile computing. I... - How to create android dialogs in a reusable manner (01 Dec 2013)
Creating dialogs is a very common need in your app to show a dialog box to the user in order to fetch a value, be it a mobile, desktop or even a web application. Furthermore, the values can range from anything like simple OK-Cancel dialog results to a list of... - How to uniquely identify your Android device in code (28 Nov 2013)
My last android project involved tracking each device where the app is installed and storing the information to a database. It is quite a common need to uniquely identify your android device in code. Now, had it been a PC, it would have been easy to track the MAC-address of... - 3 Steps to integrate barcode scanning in your Android app (24 Nov 2013)
Whilst barcode scanning is a pretty complex and non-trivial task in itself, it could be overwhelming sometimes with android programming. Lucky for us, there exists an opensource project called ZXing (pronounced Zebra-crossing) that solves this problem for us. {.wp-image-152 .alignnone width=”108” height=”77”} The ZXing project has already done the heavy lifting...