Yesterday I downloaded Game Dev Story to my Android phone, and so far I have managed to play it for like 1 hour. I have to say that it’s a really fun and engaging game. The game is like an RPG where you start a game company, hire people and develope games that you later sell and make money off. The point is to make your company grow, level up your staff and so on. You really have to check it out if you own an Android phone.
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Tags: Android, Game Dev Story
Yesterday I got really tired of how slow my rooted Samsung Galaxy Spica I5700 was. Up until then it was so slow that I had to wait like 10 seconds before the SMS window would show up. It was rooted with LK2.08 and I had also installed SamdroidMod Kitchen. But yesterday I downloaded the latest “normal” firmware to Galaxy Spica and installed it with Odin. The installation went fine, without bricking my phone. 
And it is sooo fast now compared to LK2.08! It feels so fun to use it now. I can’t understand why the phone became so slow with my previous configuration. However, if you want to unroot your phone and/or update the firmware of your Galaxy Spica, here are some useful links:
Tags: Android, Firmware, Galaxy Spica, Samsung
I found and installed a really neat application to the Android SDK and pc. It’s called Sensor Simulator and is used to simulate the different sensors that can be found in Android phones, like the accelerometer, magnetic field sensor and the orientation sensor. I got this application working after that I managed to get the adb command in the terminal to work. Because it consists of two apps, one that you install on your virtual phone and one java app that you run on your computer. So it’s kinda useless if you aren’t able to install apps on your virtual phone from the computer. By the way, click on the image above to open it in a new window/tab to see it in the native resolution, in which you are actually able to read the text.
If you are interested, check out the links below.
Links:
Tags: Accelerometer, Android, Android SDK, Magnetic Field, Orientation, Sensor Simulator
At first, the commands android and adb didn’t work in my Ubuntu terminal. But what I did to get them to work was modifying the .bashrc file in my home folder. It’s hidden so I showed it with Ctrl + H. In the file i edited the PATH lines to this:
#AndroidDev PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/home/teraspes/android-sdk-linux_x86
export PATH=$PATH:/home/teraspes/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools
export PATH=$PATH:/home/teraspes/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools
I can’t really recall what they were from the start, and I don’t know if all lines are needed. But as long as the commands work I won’t touch the lines, because I will just mess something up and end up with trying to fix it four hours.
If it still doesn’t work for you after this change, try to restart your computer.
Tags: adb, Android, Android SDK, Ubuntu
On Google’s official Android SDK website you can read about how to store data, work with databases and SQLite, but it’s not very much text there. Maybe there is an example that I have missed or something. Here is a link to the information on Android Developer-page:
But I did also find a very nice “tutorial”, or maybe I should call it a article with sample code, that shows how to use SQLite in Android SDK. Very helpful! Here are the 3 steps/pages:
- Android SQLite Basics: creating and using a database, and working with sqlite3
- Android Application and AsyncTask basics
- Backing up your Android SQLite database to the SD card
Have fun!
I found an awesome looking, dark theme to Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700! I don’t know what to say else than it’s just awesome.
But the latest version (8.1) requires that you have a Spica phone running the custom ROM Samdroid v1.2.x or 1.3.1 deodexed. And to run Samdroid you must root your phone with the LK kernel. I only recommend doing these steps if you know what you are doing and are aware of the possible damages.
Tags: Android, Galaxy Spica, GreenDevDroid, Samdroid, Theme
I can’t download Angry Birds Beta from the Android Market for some unknown reason. And apparently I’m not the only one with this problem. So I found a website with the Angry Birds Beta APK-file that I downloaded, copied to my Spica and installed with Astro. Yeah, so now I’m able to play some… Angry Birds! Yey!
Tags: Android, Angry Birds, App, Game, Market
I found two great posts on Android Police that explain what custom ROMs are and what rooting is. If you are interested and don’t already know what that stuff is, check out these posts:
Yesterday night I rooted my Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700 with the LK2.08 kernel from Leshak at the Samdroid forum. You can find the kernel on his forum. This kernel gives you root access to your Spica, changes the Recovery function and other stuff, you can see the full list of what the kernel includes in the opening post in the forum thread.
The only problem was that the guide in the thread, that described the steps to flash your phone, wasn’t very great. Only two steps that didn’t say much. But lucky me I found a much better guide about flashing LK2.08 to Spica on this website:
The procedure went fine for me and now I’m sitting here with a rooted Spica. I rooted my phone because I wanted to be able to get the extra functionality out of my phone. And I have always liked to hack and take stuff apart, even if this only was a simple flash procedure. I also had to root the phone to be able to change the default theme to a black one. I’m such a perfectionist with my black notification bar. 
Here are two other guides that show you how to flash your Galaxy Spica (but to 2.1). I don’t really know if they are any good, but at least they give some tips and images:
- http://www.greaky.com/2010/02/samsung-i5700-galaxy-spica-android-21.html
- http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-upgrade-update-samsung-galaxy-i5700-1-5-to-firmware-2-1
EDIT:
I found another nice guide that shows you how to root your Spica with LK2.02:
Tags: Android, Galaxy Spica, Leshak, LK2.08, Root, Samdroid, Samsung
I have downloaded Android SDK to Eclipse 3.6 and I have started to mess around and see if I can create something to Android. But when I opened [project folder]/res/values/strings.xml and tried to edit it in the Resources view, I got the following error message:
java.lang.nullpointerexception
This was solved by switching to the normal XML view and changing the following line:
<resources>
To:
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
And now does the Resources view work!
EDIT:
You also have to reopen the file after you have changed the code line.