Question (for those with multi-phone experience):
Does the stock Android phone, eg the G2, have the same builtin level of integration with social networking sites (FB, Twitter, MS...) as the Vibrant? Or are these features added by Samsung? I'm curious, and trying to understand the line between Android and the manufacturer's custom UI. This vibrant is my first Android phone.
It's a TouchWiz feature. So, yes it is only from Samsung.
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Hi guys,
Today I came to realize that the Samsung Galaxy SII has a kind of fancy clipboard manager, which is accessible from various programs (stock SMS, Polaris Office just to name a few).
This Clipboard manager provides a history which I'd like to use in my app.
Q: Does any of you know where I could get the developer API that is needed to make use of it?
See the screenshots below.
PS: I am pretty certain it's NOT the ClipboardManager from android API level 11.
A basic and useful facet of the multi-touch user interface is selecting multiple items. For some reason this basic functionality does not seem to work in ANY of the Android email clients* I've used. Does anybody know why this is not working?
*Tried K-9 and the built-in Android email app on both Samsung Galaxy S (Verizon) and Galaxy S3 (T999). Also tried CM9 on Nook... Have tried other Android email clients, but they were not impressive enough to cause me to remember their names.
Hi all,
One of my friends (an ardent iOS fan) claimed while arguing a few days back to me that "You can't make a phone with AOSP (pure Open source part of Android) which has Yahoo Mail as the default mail app, Bing as the default search engine and Google maps as the default maps app. That would be illegal! ". This was his exact condition. I want to know whether his claim was true. I know there is a full replacement suite of Google play services in active development (called Replicant) - but even if they wanted (including MS and Yahoo ready to provide necessary support), could they do it? What terms and conditions would prevent them from doing it if they had required money and time to implement - given the requirement above?
I believe Nokia has already done that with Nokia x
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Hey there,
I am currently developing some kind of entertainment cloud server for Android. It runs on any Android device and turns your phone into a personal cloud server, remote media player, webcam and much more.
You can manage access and permissions with the help of users and groups and employ it as your personal messenger, invite your friends and automatically sync data accross multiple devices.
The core is a robust, leightweight, SSL secured and Android optimized web server (MISS) that makes it possible to access the cloud from any browser. All unnecessary overhead is removed to deliver great performance, even on slow devices. The web interface is designed to be rendered really fast on phones and tablets.
Another central part will be the media plugin. An old android device can be a great remote controlled media player or web radio with a fancy display and cool visualizers.
I cannot disclose all the features, yet. It would be quite a list, anyway.
Another thing that I really love about this project is the fact that it might help reduce electronic waste and power consumption. One could call it regional syncing :cyclops:
I am really curious about your opinions. The development is in progress, and I hope the effort is not in vain.
I created some drafts to explain the basics: imgur.com/a/LXu24
Lately I have been wondering why Android still does not have native support for CalDAV & CardDAV, when both have been the de-facto open standard for contacts and calendar sync for years. Is there no native support because Google wants it to make it more difficult to use alternatives to their services? (In my case: NextCloud/ownCloud, which I can add right away even to an old Iphone, but still do not work with android out of the box without something like DAVDroid) Or are there plans to integrate it into future versions?
What's the problem with installing an app? Android has a native API for contacts and calendars, so I guess they can't be accused of making it "difficult". They probably just don't want to make it "too easy".
One could also ask why 99,9% of app developers don't support APK distribution but require users to use GApps & Play Store …
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What's the problem with installing an app? …
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Which is not answering my question whether it is planned to have native support for CalDAV/CardDAV.
CardDAV / CalDAV are open standards for data exchange just like IMAP, NTP, SMTP and so on. It would be only natural for android to support them