Hello I am SferaDev!
About me:
Well I am a young developer of only 17 years, I love the Android world and expanded universe of Star Wars. I started programming with JAVA three years ago, then I played some Metro and web and finally I been charmed by the Android experience.
My Android Apps:
My first application was published here on XDA a Task Manager with Holo interface, which bear multiple tasks.
Then, I developed my first "big application" whose development is still in progress and has been LAIA: Learn Android in Android. This app has been a source of review on the XDA portal and has more than 2,000 active downloads at Google Play.
After an afternoon with some friends, occurred to me DateUp. That allows quickly contact friends and propose a plan via Whatsapp.
When testing the library to create random objects and use databases, I developed an application called Random Option.
Recently, I created a utility for root users at 4.2 with a phone that has no multi-user support. The application is called Multiple users feature enabler.
Also I've made my own launcher called Dummy Launcher, designed for kids and old people but honestly it doesn't appeal to XDA users.
What I'm working on, now:
I am working with Paranoid Android team at the moment. I also maintain (unofficially right now) Omni for my device and I work with Illusion Rom when I have time. A detailed list of my ROM work on xda could be (Till JB 4.3 as KK is not stable atm):
Paranoid Android for the Galaxy S: A Jelly Bean 4.3 build with HALO 2.0, App Privacy and a bunch of new features!
Illusion for the Galaxy S: A Jelly Bean 4.3 build with tons of features!
Omni for the Galaxy S: A Jelly Bean 4.3 build with a pure AOSP feeling!
XDA RD Petition:
I made some months ago a request to be a Recognized Developer here on XDA, but they have decline it. The reason it's that I have to improve my work on XDA. So I have been working at XDA till now and I have reapplied to the RD program.
RK29 Tabs
As I own a RK29 tab I've been involved in testing and adapting rooting methods for them in ICS and also posting official updates here in XDA.
I have stopped development on this device due hardware issues with mine.
Thank you for reading and if you wanna support my freely work use the Thanks button and/or the donate to me button!
See you!
Related
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380756,00.asp
Google on Tuesday announced that the full SDK for Android 3.0 is now available to developers.
"The APIs are final, and you can now develop apps targeting this new platform and publish them to Android Market," Xavier Ducrohet, Android SDK tech lead, wrote in a blog post.
Along with the new platform, Google said it is releasing updates to its SDK Tools (r10) and ADT Plugin for Eclipse (10.0.0).
In the ADT Plugin, Google had added: new palette with categories and rendering previews; more accurate rendering of layouts that will more faithfully reflect how layouts look on devices; selection-sensitive action bars to manipulate View properties; zoom improvements, including fit to view, persistent scale, and keyboard access; and improved support for "merge" layouts and layouts with gesture overlays.
Google also added Traceview integration for easier profiling from ADT and tools for using the Renderscript graphics engine.
More details are available on the Android 3.0 Platform Highlights page.
Google released a preview of the Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" SDK in late January to allow developers to start testing their apps on tablets. Earlier this month, Google also held an event in San Francisco to more formally unveil Honeycomb. It also unveiled the Android Market Web Store, a Web-based version of the Android app store.
The first tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the Motorola Xoom, hits stores on Thursday.
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noooooo now that i need to send my folio to the assistance for the soundboard problem.... please you can wait sometime for build a release 3.0 for the folio??? ahahahahhaha
i confirm that on the android sdk is now accessible the platform 3.0 api 11, my best notice of the 2011 for now!
moved to general as not android development
Yeah! I've just readen this good news too on a news website!! So, does this mean dev's can start working on a 3.0 update for our folio's?
How long to get honeycomb on Folio?
I'm starting the count down right now
Now for serious, 2.2 is fine for me as long compatible apps keep coming to it. It will be needed a few months before We see honeycomb in full glory. I guess that there's a huge pression to get it right this time.
need this!
I realy need this for my Folio!
please...port it!
tomasino.blaha said:
I realy need this for my Folio!
please...port it!
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theres only one person who can do that at the moment and that is dext3r
What google has released is SDK, software development kit.
This is tools to build Honeycomb application, not Honeycomb itself.
For the Folio to get Honeycomb we will need a rom from a machine similar enough.
No such thing exists (yet).
Yes of course! SDK is only for software development, but is one first step toward a possible mod. Some tegra 2 tablets with similiar hardware specs will be launched this week, I don't think Xoom from motorola is that similiar.
One other option is to have source code and a set of compile options, and them try to build it from scratch.
I guess the main obstacle could be the drivers and hardware support. Must of these will have to be built from ground up and will take a considerable amount of time. I guess that it's feasible but to get a rom as polished as 1.4 we will still have to wait...
It's still good news though !
Thanks for explanation,now i'm so sedder but i believe somebody can do it
but how said "bastospn",this is first step to build new rom
well guys...
but any chance to have honeycomb working on folio?
whats the problem to port it to our deveces?
i got nexus one also and im trying the honeycomb release roight now....
davidebeatrice said:
well guys...
but any chance to have honeycomb working on folio?
whats the problem to port it to our deveces?
i got nexus one also and im trying the honeycomb release roight now....
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1st, you need a full source from Google, not just a SDK like someone has already pointed out. 2nd, porting is not an easy job...especially when the target device has a bunch of difference hardware components than the reference device. If there's no compatible drivers, sometimes you need to spend days/weeks of writing drivers/ debugging...
What you have on your Nexus one I believe is just an emulator port and thus extremely slow
xitrumch said:
1st, you need a full source from Google, not just a SDK like someone has already pointed out. 2nd, porting is not an easy job...especially when the target device has a bunch of difference hardware components than the reference device. If there's no compatible drivers, sometimes you need to spend days/weeks of writing drivers/ debugging...
What you have on your Nexus one I believe is just an emulator port and thus extremely slow
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no,
on my n1 ive a full sdk porting really fast and stable, obviously with no phone connection at all...
resolution is the native one, so characters are really small on n1...but folio screen is wider...
look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961994
so guys...how does it look?
i'm so excited and waiting for it!
is possilbe to do it?
now i installed FolioMod but.that isn't Honeycomb!
Hello, developers in XDA, we are currently planning to develop a new android-based rom. The framework will be deep modified to give users a full new experience, We are all students in high school, so we need your help. After this project finished, we may design a new device using the rom we built.
Another member in our project, mariotaku.lee @ Google code:
Our project needs your help! We are NOT commercial team, We are just students. And I think most part of our project will be open-source, at least all projects owned by me. You can check them out in my project page:
MusicMod (based on Music Mod by Eliot Stocker, but with more powerful feature, my goal is make it better than PlayerPro, but MusicMod will be free and open source forever)
SMS Blacklist (block spam messages)
And I will develop X-server for Android in the future!
Take someone elses rom and tweak it a bit like everyone else does
sent from an HTC sensation on CM7 alpha #10
Hey John_Titor,
don't listen to what people say about it being hard, look at cyanogine and miui they started from scratch and now look how popular they are..
just stay close to the users and everyone will be happy
you can try using cm9's kernel or cm7's kernel instead of starting from scratch.
finally i wish you all the best.
Hello all.
I have just put Jelly Bean on my Milestone 2 and I must say it is a VAST improvement over GingerBread 2.3.4, which was what Motorola officially pushed out for it. Amongst the many UI and performance increases, there is one I particularly like - the Google Voice engine, and it's integration with the Google Now service.
My question is this - if I were to want to develop plugins or modules for this Google Voice engine (and I give an example of what I mean below) to be released absolutely free on XDA and Google Play, how much of a task would it be for me? I would really like to develop rules to use with Voice - for example, when you now say "show me and image of.." it will show you images of the topic you give it, using Googles search engine. I would like to develop a rule which says "What is this song?" for example - at which point in reaches out to Shazam or SoundHound and starts tagging. Little things like this - "Show me trains at <this train station>" for another example, where it could go out and browse to a specific URL which would show a timetable for a train station. Are there any development outlets for writing these "rules"?
I have not developed for Android before, but do have experience in Java programming. I've been following various streams of interest on XDA as well, having owned an original G1 until a year ago when I got my Milestone 2, both of which have been rooted and flashed with CyanogenMod. So in terms of Android development, I am an amateur. But I am a programmer and an avid Android enthusiast, and would really like to get my teeth into developing for the OS, and would really like to begin with Google Voice.
Any information anyone could give me about this would be great.
well when i always scroll through theme/apps i saw a lot of ported apps (multiwindow and stuff) for XXLSJ
But i wonder is it possible that these apps could be ported to cm/aokp/aosp??
It might sound unique, but this wasn’t the first time I’ve seen something like this. In fact, back in February the CyanogenMod team were considering adding a similar service called “Cornerstone” until Google threatened consequences for implementing this service on devices that Google supported.
What Cornerstone and Samsung Multi-Window share is the ability to truly multitask in a windowed environment. While Cornerstone is certainly more robust than Multi-Window, allowing you to create multiple panes and even retain access to the home screen, the effect that the services have on apps is fairly similar. The apps are forced into nonstandard views, which could potentially cause a poor experience.
When the Android team, specifically software engineer Dianne Hackborn, saw plans to implement Cornerstone into the next version of CyanogenMod it became abundantly clear that there were those at Google who did not want this to happen. Hackborn’s comments regarding the announcement began as a plea not to implement a potentially disruptive system and ended with direct threats, complete with consequences should the team move forward with Cornerstone.
Got from this site: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/samsung-adds-multi-window-despite-threat-from-google-2012109/
And if you like more reading: http://www.wikiforu.com/2012/12/multi-window-on-android-in-cyanogenmod.html
It was discused on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2054254
Cheers
kona144 said:
It might sound unique, but this wasn’t the first time I’ve seen something like this. In fact, back in February the CyanogenMod team were considering adding a similar service called “Cornerstone” until Google threatened consequences for implementing this service on devices that Google supported.
What Cornerstone and Samsung Multi-Window share is the ability to truly multitask in a windowed environment. While Cornerstone is certainly more robust than Multi-Window, allowing you to create multiple panes and even retain access to the home screen, the effect that the services have on apps is fairly similar. The apps are forced into nonstandard views, which could potentially cause a poor experience.
When the Android team, specifically software engineer Dianne Hackborn, saw plans to implement Cornerstone into the next version of CyanogenMod it became abundantly clear that there were those at Google who did not want this to happen. Hackborn’s comments regarding the announcement began as a plea not to implement a potentially disruptive system and ended with direct threats, complete with consequences should the team move forward with Cornerstone.
Got from this site: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/samsung-adds-multi-window-despite-threat-from-google-2012109/
And if you like more reading: http://www.wikiforu.com/2012/12/multi-window-on-android-in-cyanogenmod.html
It was discused on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2054254
Cheers
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Thanks for posting this; but he asked for porting those apps to AOSP/AOKP.
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Sorry but it won't happen those things need Samsung framework to work and aokp cm are not using it so it won't happen
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Thanks for posting this; but he asked for porting those apps to AOSP/AOKP.
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Thx for answering
I hope there could be a multi window for us
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Hi friends,
I need advice on a pressing issue I am facing right now about an android app I got developed through a freelancer.
I am webmaster of a website for numerology enthusiasts. On this website, we were offering a numerology calculator (basically a combination of html pages with some javascript embeded - all compiled in an .exe format) Later, on some suggestions, we decided to prepare an Android version of this tiny program by hiring a programmer of South India. It was 2011 and the Gingerbread was the prevalent Android platform. The programmer created the App and we published it on Android Market where it is still available on playstore (search for com.namecalculator.lite on playstore and the first result 'Your Lucky Name' is the app in question.)
The problem is that this was an app which was not compatible with the later version of Android. As such, after sometimes, when the ICS version of Android was launched, the app stopped working for ICS devices. As of now, except for some old Android devices, this App is useless.
When I contacted the guy who originally developed this App, he told that the source file of the Apps were not saved by him and as such, he expressed his inability to do anything about it. He told me that if I again wanted him to develop the app for later versions of Android (like ICS, Jellybean etc), I will have to pay him the full development fee as he will have to start again from scratch.
Since my website is only a hobbyist website with negligible revenue, it was not possible for me to again hire this programmer just to develop an upgraded version of the app.
As of now, a very popular part of my website (the app) has become unavailable for its intended users. In this background, I want guidance on the following:-
(1) If an App is already built for an earlier Android version, does making it compatible with future/latest version of Android require the same amount of energy and effort which was needed when the app was developed the first time?
(2) Since the App in question is basically a compilation of html files with some javascript embeded in some pages, will it be really difficult to reconstruct the app if the source file of earlier app has been lost ?(I still have the raw html pages with me)
(3) I am not a programmer but have experience of web-designing, creating blogs etc. Can I self taught myself to create the above mentioned app by reading and following the online tutorials ? If yes, what in your opinion is the expected time an average learner (with no programming background) can do it? Also kindly point me to some good tutorials.
(4) Any other advice on the above issue some of you might be having ?
Regards
Eklavya