In my school, we were all given Acer Spin 11 Chromebooks to use in class. They have the Google Play store, although they have only 10 (educational) apps.
My understanding of how this works is that Android is somehow running under Chrome OS, as you can actually access the Android settings and mess around in there.
My question is, is there a way to truly access Android? Can I see the Android home screen, use the Android interface as if it were running Android rather than Chrome? I don't see why this wouldn't be possible, as it seems as if Android is somehow running in the background. This might be a bit far-fetched, especially since our school blocks things like developer mode, but it would be awesome if this were possible.
Thanks in advance!
Kind of. If you can install a launcher like Nova Launcher you can get an android home screen but it's in a window like the other android apps on Chromebooks.
You can also get to the android settings by going to the Chromebooks settings, scrolling to the Google Play Store section where there is a manage android preferences option which opens up an android settings menu in a window.
If you have a Chromebook from school they have likely locked all of this down so you can't get to any of it though.
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Hi guys.
I know CM can do this, but the volume keys are quite uncomfortable in my xperia phone. My phone has 3 front physical buttonsn and I would love to do something like this:
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Is it possible?
Thanks.
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I would also like to know this.
For any former TCPMP users on Windows Mobile, you could easily map buttons to do all sorts of things within the player. Nothing has come along for Android that is anywhere near the capabilities of this player. You'd probably need root to do this on Android but I think there is demand for it.
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I would also like to know this.
For any former TCPMP users on Windows Mobile, you could easily map buttons to do all sorts of things within the player. Nothing has come along for Android that is anywhere near the capabilities of this player. You'd probably need root to do this on Android but I think there is demand for it.
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As far I know, you can edit the keyboard layout to make that. Te problem is that you would lose the back/menu buttons...
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If someone can show you a solution, it will get your phone model sales higher. Because your requirement seems very useful.
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Announcing the Attopedia project: Put the world's knowledge on the back of your hand!
Here's a Wikipedia client for Android Wear. Although we have things like the Wear Internet Browser, I think that making information intuitive and easy to access on smart watches is going to take some experimenting with new user interface designs; current HTML5 pages aren't ready for 3-cm screens yet. So here I present a GridViewPager-based approach to browsing Wikipedia. Should be live on the Play Store in a few hours.
Would love to hear any feedback about this early release. In the spirit of free knowledge, this is being released as GPLv3.
Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dheera.attopedia
Website: http://dheera.net/projects/android-picopedia
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Hi all, this app is being renamed to Attopedia.
Google Play Store banned my app the first time around because I used the Wikipedia logo (I wanted to give them enough credit ...)
But here it is, this time without the Wikimedia trademarks.
Play Store download link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dheera.attopedia
Project webpage:
http://dheera.net/projects/android-attopedia
This is the reason why I got a Wear watch - this sort of innovative thinking. Really nice app.
Thanks! Awesome work
Hello
Wondering if I can ask some advice. I'm looking to start a car PC project soon based on Android, I will probably go with Android x86 Kitkat as I was previously but I guess something like this should be agnostic with many versions and devices.
I am looking to interface a graphical LCD, such as one of these:
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They are usually controlled over a serial connection which presumably wouldn't be an issue with a USB-Serial adapter (or even with Android x86, a physical serial port on the PC). So assuming connections are possible, are there any apps to display metadata like Now Playing songs etc on such a screen? Maybe even a small menu to change music etc? Even to display any data at all I'm thinking I may be able to adapt something to suit my needs.
On Linux/BSD, a program called LCDProc is a common choice for controlling such screens, is there anything similar available for Android? Obviously it wouldn't be the main screen on the device it would just be an accessory to display metadata and other info.
Any information pointing me in the right direction would be very much appreciated.
Hi
I think the best place to ask this this question is in the Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting section, so please stand by while we have your thread moved there.
Good luck!
Google used to provide a semi standalone Android Studio installer with at least the SDK included. However, as of version 3.x such option is no longer available. Even with the semi standalone installer, a connection to the internet is still required to download junit and sync gradle. Why, though? Why not make a single fully functioning installer so that people all over the world can get on with their coding lives?
Well,
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define "all".
Behold a tear inducing image of the error that pops up after creating a simple android project.
Tears fall down after downloading Android Studio @ 150 kbps at an internet cafe on a flashdrive to use it on a desktop somewhere internet-less hoping that you can have a great weekend working on your killer android app project.
Summarizing, in order to start developing for android using Android Studio, one has to connect to the internet at least once after the installation.
On a more "serious" note, India, South America, Africa etc, are places where, unfortunately, unlimited internet is not available to everyone, heck even the U.S. has some places where internet quality is lower than the chances of the awesome people at Google actually consider this request.
Hey Folks,
I hope you can help me, search function didn't.
I have Android 7 in my car and all I want is to start with Maps and Spotify in Splitscreen. Is there a launcher which can do this, or any other thing i can do? Maybe IFTTT or something similar?
Of course I can start both Apps and activate the Splitscreen manually, but I am wondering if there is any easier solution. I found "Splitscreen launcher" but it is only for vertical splitting and it doesn't work on my Android 7.
AFAIK you can't start split screen mode programmatically
I want to do the same as OP.
Vivid launcher comes close, but they pair google maps with their own music player. I need to use Gaia for offroad navigation instead of google maps. Gaia lets me upload tracks which is very useful when driving a maze of logging roads to a specific destination. Also, the vivid music player puts a popup on every screen, which I don't want.
It would be even better if I could include a few icons (see image).
But ultimately I don't care how I get the result desired, as long as I can return to it with a press of a steering wheel button. On the head unit I have, I can manually do a splitscreen, but it goes away if I go to a different app.
Does anyone run something like this?
Is there a launcher that will do this?
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