Hey everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that I was able to finish and upload another hour worth of videos! That's right, currently there is more than 9 hours of video tutorial available. As promised, this was added to the series:
* Installing/using VirtualBox
* Fixing a VB Ubuntu problem …
While using my Hourglass app for Android phones, a user made an interesting observation:
Hi
I love this open source app and using it quite often. But sometimes my phone is in my pocket and I'm listening to music and I miss the time ended notification ! The vibration is short …
While there are several guides out there on how to do this, I ran into a slight snag while trying to put Android Nougat on a Nook HD+, so I thought I'd share that with you. I was following this guide: https://nookhdplusandroid7.wordpress.com/
Following through the instructions seemed …
I'm at the end of section 3 of my online course, and I've learned so much! I'll be honest, since Java and C++ are both object oriented languages, I feel that it has been a pretty smooth transition so far.
While not part of the course, I noticed when showing …
Spent a little bit of time with a soldering iron.
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I put my project into a box, wired in all of the relays, and ran several feet of wire for connecting to the various functions. Hopefully this will work! I'm planning to do …
For those interested, I have just posted a video tutorial series on XDA for building Android Oreo, Nougat, Marshmallow, and Lollipop on 5 different phones, the emulator, and 5 different ROMs. Also included are custom kernel editing, adding apps, changing source code, backgrounds, and more. Here's what I posted:
From …
One of the most interesting things I've learned since completing the second section of my Udemy course on C++ game creation, is that of random number generation. In Android, this process was a little more straight forward, with everything behind the scene just being handled for you. You simply created …
My wife and I recently picked up a dumb phone for things like hunting/camping/fishing. You can get them pretty cheap, and the battery life is fantastic compared to most smart phones. Besides, if you loose it, you're only out a few bucks.
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This was actually a great idea brought up by a user, and posted in my issue tracker for the Hourglass app. He pointed out that it would be really handy to have the remaining time posted in the notification popup, and get it to be consistently updated.
I thought there …
So, I've completed section one of my Udemy course. There are eleven sections total. It's a bit odd, in that the course instructor is using Microsoft Visual Studio, and I am not. Actually, I'm not even using Windows. So there are a few differences that I think are worth noting …