Posts tagged as: android


How To: Customize WordPress for iPhone and Android in a few clicks

The self hosted Wordpress site can be viewed in Smart phones like iPhone, Android and Blackberry with better native look and feel of the phone's native screen size, UI controls, font and touch screen input. It is going to be installation of WPTouch, which customizes the user interface of our site native to the phone. ...

How to upgrade Android Dev Phone 1 to SDK 1.6?

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Android Dev Phone 1 shipped with version 1.0 system image. After wards the Android went through two more releases 1.5 & 1.6.  Since Android Dev Phones are not locked with any Service Provider, there is no OTA update (update through Mobile network) available. Since Dev Phone is manufactured by HTC, they provide support for upgrade. ...

Tamil Font support in Android?

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What about the Tamil font support in Android? I just analyzed the stuff behind this. Tamil like any indic language needs complex script support, which is most important for complex characters in indian languages. This is provided by Pango library in linux systems. Most of the latest Linux desktop/server has Pango library installed by default. Android ...

Mounting /system partition in read-write mode in Android

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Any hacker needs full access to the system files to play with the system. Andoid /system partition is read-only by default. Here is an HOWTO to mount it in read-write mode. It is assumed that you have installed android SDK in your workstation. We use adb tool in tools directory of SDK. 1. Identifying the /system ...

Google Android Screenshots

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Here is the screenshot of Google Android mobile applications for your viewing pleasure.How idd I take screenshot in Mobile? It is simple, man. I had connected the mobile to my development system Ubuntu through USB cable. From Eclipse with Android plugin, it was able to detect my mobile. There was an option just above the ...

My shiny new Google Android Dev Phone 1

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Today, I have got my Google Android Dev Phone 1. It is powered by Google Android Operating system which is an open source OS. This phone is SIM unlocked and boot loader unlocked. This version of phone is meant for developers to play with the real device. For more information on phone you may please ...

Android – Under the hood

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Android is the Google's open source Operating System designed for mobile devices. Apart from Google, most of the top players of mobile industries are behind Google developing this linux kernel based OS. What the project says about itself? Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating ...