Translation to english is in progress, stay tunes Webapps sind im Grunde einfach Webseiten, die man mit eigenen Icon auf seinen Smartphone installieren kann. Die Nutzer brauchen so nicht über einen Appstore zu gehen. Um eine solche Webapp zu entwickeln müssen wir dem HTML-Code einer Webseite zusätzliche Informationen mitgeben: die generelle Eigenschaft “WebApp-fähig” sowie mindestens …
Tag Archives: Android
Beijing wireless card for public transport
On my desk is a souvenir from Beijing: a so-called Yikatong card. You can pay subways, buses and also taxis with the card. It works as prepaid card, the card is charged with credit at special machines. When entering the bus you tap card to a reader and at the exit you will tap it …
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How does the NFC-Hunt App from Google works?
Google organized a kind of scavenger hunt for the developers conference IO 2013 to demonstrate the practical use of NFC. Participants needed an NFC-enabled Android and then installed an app called “NFC Hunt”. The app gives clues where to find specific NFC tags in the real world. The user has to find and scan these …
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Reversed sound volume controls
Sometimes when I want to adjust the volume on my electronic devices, I push the loud button instead of on the quiet button. Why do I get confused? Let’s look at the assignment of the volume buttons to the volume control for a Android tablet nexus 7, second version: When I press the left button, …
Video about Handylearn Counter
Just created a new video and uploaded it to YouTube, it shows the Android port of Handylearn Counter. I especially like how the pie chart dynamically changes with presses of the buttons. The original J2ME version has now six-digit download numbers and is particularly popular in India, Mexico and Argentina. The android version let you …
New features for enterprise users of Android
Google announced new features for Android specifically aimed at improving the usage in companies. The next version of Android-L Android 5 will contain these improvements. When employees access corporate data with the smartphone, you want a strict separation of corporate data from private data and a foreclosure of privately used services. Even if you trust …
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Android in the Enterprise
Two lectures at Droidcon Companies with mobile workers can optimize their business processes with mobile devices. At the conference droidcon 2014 in Berlin, I was able to listen to a practice report and a manufacturer lecture. Android devices have been designed by Google as personal devices. So they offer a wide range of entertainment and …
Speed up the Android Emulator
Intel provides a software package to significantly speed up the Android emulator on processors with Hyper-V: the Intel® Hardware Eccelerated Execution Manager (HAXM).
JavaScript Incompatibilities in Webapps
(Deutsch) Zwei Inkompatibilitäten aus einem praktischen Projekt: Datumsfunktionen sind bei älteren Android-Geräten unvollständig, und die prompt-Methode wird von Microsoft still unterdrückt.