Black screen after update – Please help

So I have completely broke my Android Tablet and now I’m looking into the forums to see if I can find some help.

If you any of you knows how to fix this, please help.

Here is the thread:

http://androidforums.com/wondermedia-wm8650/609186-black-screen-after-update-please-help.html

Origin of the Android logo (LOL)

Off course not, but so funny the resemblance

Android SDK on MACOsx

When trying to install the Android SDK on a MacOSX you can run the android command from the sdk directory/tools.

To run the command type bash android under the tools directory.

A couple of tips for your brand new Android ePad (MID)

For a couple months now I have been a happy owner of an Android ePad (MID) bought directly from eBay. The only frustation that I had was that for some apps it was very very slow and it was painful to get more apps since the manufacturer did not had access to Google’s Android Market.

Amazon has just released it’s own Android market and best of, they dont check for manufacturers to allow access to the apps so you can easily download top apps (like Angry Birds) with no problem what so ever.

If you are an Android ePad owner, Amazon marketplace is a must have. Regardless if you have access to the Android Market from Google or not, Amazon gives a paid app free every day.

The second must have is an app, that you can find at Amazon Marketplace, for boosting Androids memory. It acts as a trash collector rearranging the memory and allowing you to kill some process that are not anymore in use, but they are using the memory.

Last, but not the least, find some 3gp video player. There are a ton of sites online that provides 3gp content which is small enough for a cell phone to handle, so it will be more than enough for your Droid to handle.

Have fun.

Emulators for mobile application

I have been working with mobile lately and one of the hardest things to do is to test your application (web or not) in a phone, even more when you don’t have a couple of hand full of real phones to test your application.

Running some search’s I have found out some good sites with emulators, from the old style into the new smart phones.

Start with A guide to mobile emulators from Mobi Forge. I has almost the full list of the mobile emulators to be download and it is only outdated in regards of the Blackberry emulators, that needs an older library of Java.

What happens is that some urls have changed and some emulators need older libraries, like the Blackberry ones. For the Blackberry, to get an older library, you will need to fill out a form and then Java will send you the link with the JDK 1.5 to be downloaded. The issue with this library is that it has been discontinued and the Blackberry Email app, necessary to see webpages, does not support this new library yet. Under Linux you can use Synaptic (or apt-get, yum, etc) to install the Java Development Kit 5.0 Update 22.

Anyway, the next step is to download the VirtualBox. Some emulators, like the Palm and the Android, are under a VirtualBox disk. This makes it easier to install and run the emulators, besides this one, most of the rest are under some SDK environment.

There are a couple of test enviroments that are available online, but those are only for testing web pages, anyway, a good resource.

• Opera Mini Emulator
• iPhone Emulator
• Sony and Nokia emulators

Also download an emulator for Openware and WML. We still have a ton of those phones around and if you are developing a webpage, then, you must use this.

I have been searching emulators for Japanese phones and so far I haven’t been able to find something really good. There is a Firefox extension, FireMobileSimulator that actually does a very good job and the only fall back is in regards the encoding. It seems to read the encoding of the machine, so, I got situations where in Japan the test was giving wrong results, but here in US everything was alright.

Android + Flash = iPhone but kicked

For the happiness of Android users and the sadness of iPhone users, Flash is now supported.

“So we just got word that HTC will be the first manufacturer to bring Adobe Flash to the Android platform with the release of its new Hero / Sense device. If you needed more proof that Android is here to stay and will not sit on the sidelines in the mobile operating systems game, this is it. If you think about it, the iPhone is now the only platform with substantial weight on the market that doesn’t boast support for Flash.“

More about this article in MobileCrunch

Creating applications for Android

Google Android is becoming more and more popular with the growth of the G1 and with the upcomming new phone release.

I was checking on some documentation to see how to develop applications to the Android and I found this site (kind of slow) that have some great documentation for beginners:
http://www.brighthub.com/

Here is the list of the documentation for developing Android applications:
1. Setting the Environment: Using Eclipse and Netbeans For Developing Google Android Apps
2. How-to create an Android Application: Structure I
3. How do I Develop an Android Application? Structure II
4. How-to create User Interfaces (UI) using XML : Layouts
5. How-to create an User Interface (UI) using XML : Widgets

Check it all. It will be worth your time and reading.

Learn to program for G1 – The new Google Phone

I just got an email inviting to join a Bootcamp for learn to develop Android applications. It seems a very good thing but a little too pricy ($3500). Anyway it’s worth to check it out if you are looking to create applications for the new Google Phone the G1.

The bootcamp goal is for the student at the end:

• create Android user interfaces (activities)
• connect Android applications to the Internet and to local databases
• publish data to Android applications through a content provider, and how to use data that other applications provide through their content providers
• build long-running Android processes using services
• use advanced Android features like GPS access, mapping, and search

For more information go to:
http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/android.shtml