All posts by chrisonline
Android Wear Connect/Debugging
I developed for COL Reminder an Android Wear App to show the notifications and add some goodies. Android Wear is a little bit different and has some specials if you want to deploy or debug it. So here is a little guide and hints for this. The main entry point to start is the official…
Eclipse to Android Studio and FogBugz/Kiln
For a few days I finally migrated from Eclipse to Android Studio. I had a few tools in Eclipse for Version Control System and Bug Tracking. Both are from FogBugz. FogBugz is Bug Tracking and Kiln (also from FogBugz) is a Verison Control System with Mercurial. In Eclipse there was a “FogBugz Mercurial Integration” for…
Avast, Windows 8/10, Hyper-V and Intel HAXM for Android Emulator
Windows 8/10 has some Problems with Intel HAXM Installation. Intel HAXM is official supported with this Operating Systems: Windows 10 (32/64-bit) Windows 8 (32/64-bit) Windows 7 (32/64-bit) Windows Vista (32/64-bit) Windows XP (32-bit only) OS X 10.6 or 10.7 (32/64-bit) But on Windows 8/10 it should work too except of some issues you will see…
Removing an app icon from launcher
On Android you find a lot of apps who are free and with installing an extra “app” you get extra features. A few examples are: – Out of milk – Andlytics – COL Reminder After activation the app should be installed but you want to remove only the app icon in the launcher. Here is…
Missing Android Javadoc in Eclipse?
If you see in your Eclipse on mousover this: Instead of the original Android Javadoc entry: Follow this steps to get it back again: In Eclipse, right click on your Android project and select Properties On the menu on the left, select “Java Build Path“ On the right side, select the “tab” labelled…
Color the standard Android Button
If you would like to color the standard Android button, like in the app “OpenTable” here is the code how you can do that. See the app “OpenTable” Screenshot to the right. At the bottom there is an standard Android button with color red. At the moment i had not found to do this with…
Windows 95 on Android Phone
I’ve just installed Windows 95 on my Nexus One 🙂 Very cool … You only need a folder on you SD-Card and you have do install 1 APK file. Runs great on my phone 🙂 If you want to try it yourself, here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694105
Reload strings on localize change
If you change the language in the app (read post before “Force Localize an Application on Android“) you run into the problem to reload the new language strings.
Force Localize an Application on Android
As the title stated, you can force your application to be localize on an application basis and not system basis. In this article we would use german and english. To do this you have to edit something on your oncreate function on your default activity. import android.app.Activity; import android.content.res.Configuration; import android.os.Bundle;