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ADB Driver for HTC EVO 4G
You would think that installing the drivers required to develop on an Android phone would be easy to find. Not quite. Each vendor is tasked with creating their own implementation of the ADB driver,...
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Creating an Android App with PHP JSON Backend – Part II
The next part of our project is where things move over into Android land. We’ve created a pretty simple API to utilize, now lets put together the Java code required to pull data from this thing and...
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Random Photo Slide Animation in Android
As part of an Android app I’ve been working on lately I wanted to create an effect showing a number of photos, with random slight rotations and vertical positioning, sliding across the screen from...
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Some things in Android are easy to do, most things are not. It seems like to create an app you can easily get 60-70% of the way to where you want to be, but going the extra 30% to create a really...
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Reasoning About Phone TCP Performance
Here’s a question that has often been asked, but seldom been answered: how does one send an image to or from a phone as efficiently and quickly as possible? More generally, how can we reason about the...
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AudioDAQ: A Low-Power Phone Peripheral Interface
I’m just finishing up a trip to IPSN’12 in Beijing this week where I presented a demonstration of my current research project. It’s a pretty cool piece of work. We wanted to develop a device that...
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HiJack for Android, Written in C
One of the major projects I’ve worked on while at the University of Michigan has been HiJack, a peripheral that plugs into the audio port of a mobile phone, harvests energy, and provides a channel of...
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