Windows 10 supports Android, but I think the support is very lacking. Supposedly, if you attach your Android smartphone to the Windows Phone app, you can then run Android apps on Windows 10 using the Phone app. You would have to have the latest version of the Phone app though.…
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I needed to re-image a Google Nexus 5 Android GSM smartphone with its stock factory image. Because I haven’t done this in a long while, I thought I would document what I did. The instructions below should also work for the Google Pixel phone. I did the re-image using my…
Leave a CommentI purchased a used Nexus 5 recently. When I used the built-in Settings app to upgrade it to the latest Android version, it got stuck at the bootloader screen on reboot. The previous owner had rooted the Nexus with a custom bootloader which broke the stock upgrade process. Because I…
Leave a CommentI purchased a T-Mobile iPhone 5s for a great price on Craigslist. The seller seemed like a nice young man. The phone worked without any issues. Coming from a Blackberry Pearl, the iPhone was a wonderful treat. Three months later, I couldn’t make or receive phone calls or text messages.…
3 CommentsIn this post, I will outline the steps necessary to compile the VLC Player for Android devices. As a pre-requisite, please see my post about installing Eclipse Indigo for Android Development on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Prepare Your System for VLC Compilation: Download the latest Apple Xcode development tool…
4 CommentsI decided to install the latest version of Eclipse, Indigo, and configure it to do Android application development. My specific final target is to build the VLC Player for Android. Below are my notes for installing such an Eclipse configuration for Android development on a clean Mac OS X Snow…
1 CommentRecently, I started looking into Android development. What I found was that it was very easy to do Android application development and best of all, it is free (unlike Apple’s $99/year development fee). All you need is a computer, your Android phone, and a USB cable to connect the two.…
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