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Log Output for Huawei Ideos X3

By A. Banani On 3. April 2012 · Leave a Comment

I got myself an Android dev phone from Huawei. The Ideos X3 is a simple but yet feature-full Android device and since a local coffee shop (yup, no kidding) is selling it for 49€ I went ahead and bought it.

After testing a few of my apps on the device I realized that the LogCat [...]

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Android, SQLite and a few Problems

By A. Banani On 30. March 2012 · Leave a Comment

Usually the above error message indicates that the SQLite database was not initialized, meaning it is empty. There are two ways to initialize an SQLite database:

In your code you can define CREATE statements that create the tables and then use INSERT to populate it with data Use a preconfigured database that you import in [...]

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Android App Setting the Volume Control Stream

By A. Banani On 17. February 2012 · Leave a Comment

Android has several streams for media playback (e.g. ring tone, notifications, music) which can be controlled independently. This allows you to mute your ring tone while still listening to music or play games with sound. The problem is that sometimes you would like to increase or decrease the volume of one stream but the current [...]

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Kindle Fire ADB Driver in Windows

By A. Banani On 29. January 2012 · Leave a Comment

In this post I described how to add Android devices to Linux (actually how to solve the permission problem, the rest is done automatically in Linux and UDEV). For Windows it’s a similar approach except that the Google USB Driver is needed which has to be [...]

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Kindle Fire Screen Size and the 20px Softbar

By A. Banani On 26. January 2012 · Leave a Comment

The  has a 7″ display with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. That is also what the window manager returns.

DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics(); getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);

The problem is that the  does not have any hardware keys so the main function keys are realized in software. That is why the Fire has a 20px soft key [...]

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Multi-Language Menus in WordPress

By A. Banani On 6. December 2011 · Leave a Comment

There are different plugins available to implement multi-language support in WordPress. I usually go with qtranslate for my sites which is a great plugin. My latest site is not a blog but more of an online shop based on eshop. qtranslate integrates well with eshop and the theme I am using. Despite the good integration [...]

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Nokia Lumia 800

By A. Banani On 31. October 2011 · Leave a Comment

Check out the new Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 800 at the Windows Team Blog.

Looks nice …

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