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MOTODEV Studio for Android 1.2 is now available

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:34:19 +0000

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 support

Details here.

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Using Sound Recorder activity for capturing audio in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:57:36 +0000

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 . . . → Read More: Using Sound Recorder activity for capturing audio in Android No related posts.

Capturing audio in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:49:24 +0000

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 . . . → Read More: Capturing audio in Android No related posts.

Android Development Tools 0.9.6 is out

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:59:11 +0000

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, . . . → Read More: Android Development Tools 0.9.6 is out No related posts.

Android NDK r3 is out

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:27:34 +0000

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 are here.

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Showing running services in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:16:12 +0000

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> . . . → Read More: Showing running services in Android No related posts.

Working with SDCard’s filesystem in Android

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:44:19 +0000

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.

Let’s look from the beginning.

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Viewing android.R.drawable images

Oleg Mazurashu — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:14:21 +0000

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. At this point we have 2 ways:

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Android SDK 2.1 is out

Oleg Mazurashu — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:23:09 +0000

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

Release notes here.

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Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux

Oleg Mazurashu — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:28:34 +0000

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 . . . → Read More: Using SDCard image for Android emulator in Ubuntu Linux No related posts.