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MOTODEV Studio for Android 1.2 is now available

By Oleg Mazurashu, on March 24th, 2010%

An new version of MOTODEV Studio for Android is available. This release provides support for the Android 2.1 (Eclair) SDK and includes version 0.9.6 of the Google ADT plugins.
Several new features for this release:

the ability to install into your own Eclipse environment
64-bit host support
Windows 7 . . . → Read More: MOTODEV Studio for Android 1.2 is now available

Using Sound Recorder activity for capturing audio in Android

By Oleg Mazurashu, on March 17th, 2010%

One more solution for capturing audio in Android.
You can use existing application which can capture audio for you. I am going to show example which shows how to start Sound Recorder activity:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

/**
* This class shows how to run Sound Recorder activity
* @author The Developer’s Info
*/
public class Main . . . → Read More: Using Sound Recorder activity for capturing audio in Android

Capturing audio in Android

By Oleg Mazurashu, on March 17th, 2010%

In this post I am going to show how to capture audio in Android.
Android allows to capture audio in very easy manner. But today I spent 3 hours for creating working example. I don’t know why I spent so much time, maybe because it is first time when I tried to work with multimedia in Android. Anyway now I know how it works and I want to share my knowledge. Here I am going to record/capture audio from phone’s/emulator’s microphone to the SDCard (Note: I used web camera’s microphone for recording audio – it works). Continue reading Capturing audio in Android

Android Development Tools 0.9.6 is out

By Oleg Mazurashu, on March 9th, 2010%

Android Development Tools (ADT) is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that is designed to give you a powerful, integrated environment in which to build Android applications.
New version 0.9.6 is available for download/update.

What’s new:

Dependencies

ADT 0.9.6 is designed for use with SDK Tools r5 and later. Before updating to ADT 0.9.6, we highly recommend that . . . → Read More: Android Development Tools 0.9.6 is out

Android NDK r3 is out

By Oleg Mazurashu, on March 9th, 2010%

The third release of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is now available.
It can be used to target devices running Android 1.5 and higher.
New features:

Toolchain improvement

OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Details . . . → Read More: Android NDK r3 is out

Showing running services in Android

By Oleg Mazurashu, on February 1st, 2010%

Here I want to share snippet of code which I found when I tried to get all services which are running in Android.
It is very simple and useful.

public class Main extends Activity {
private static String APP_TAG = “tag”;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

ActivityManager activityManager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List<ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo> runningServices = activityManager.getRunningServices(50);

for (int i = 0; i < runningServices.size(); . . . → Read More: Showing running services in Android

Working with SDCard’s filesystem in Android

By Oleg Mazurashu, on January 13th, 2010%

It is very easy to work with SDCard in Android. Here we are working with File objects as with standard Java I/O operations.
In this article I am going to show how to read, write, create files and how to create a folder in SDCard. Continue reading Working with SDCard’s filesystem in Android

Viewing android.R.drawable images

By Oleg Mazurashu, on January 13th, 2010%

How often do you want to see what kind of images are in android.R.drawable package?
Personally, I very often look at them. And the big problem is to see them at first time, because you don’t know where they are.
This post should resolve this problem. Continue reading Viewing android.R.drawable images

Android SDK 2.1 is out

By Oleg Mazurashu, on January 12th, 2010%

Android SDK 2.1 is released, so that developers can take advantage of the new features introduced in this version.

Release . . . → Read More: Android SDK 2.1 is out

Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux

By Oleg Mazurashu, on January 11th, 2010%

It is my first working day in this year and I started it with installing Ubuntu Linux 9.10 on my PC.

Why I need this system?
I want to try use it in my development environment. I used Windows XP, not Vista .
First of all I found that emulator instance works slowly than in my Windows machine, but for me it is not very big problem… I think so.
In Linux I found one very good solution for working with SDCard image. In Linux I can use file manager when need to access SDCard and it is very useful. Continue reading Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux

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