Archive for the ‘android’ Category

• Classdroid public beta

  Date: 2010.07.15 | Category: Primary Blogger, WordPress, android, ict, primary | Response: 0

  

  Here is the Classdroid apk for public beta. We only have support for primaryblogger and xparena(not a live service) available right now. We are waiting on Moodle V2 to bring moodle support in.

  1. Get the Classdroid.apk
  2. Read this guide for how to install an .apk
  3. Make sure you have a Primaryblogger account & Blog
  4. Have fun

  Note:  We still have a lot of GUI tweeking to do but most of the functionality now exists. We will be releasing the source code once beta testing is complete.

  Thanks to this guy for the great custom artwork/logo/icon!

  Go here for info on classdroid

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• Security Warning: Using a mobile phone to take pictures of kids activities/work

  Date: 2010.07.08 | Category: Primary School ICT., android, ict, primary, primary school | Response: 3

  Did you know when you take a picture on your mobile phone it may add your current location to the Exif data of the image?

  So if you are out on a school trip and have GPS or location enabled on your device then you upload an image to an e-portfolio or blog anyone will be able to see the latitude and longitude of where you took the picture.

  I discovered this when working on Classdroid and Kudos to Hak5 for the useful link.  Safe to say all images uploaded from Classdroid will set the location as: “The moon”.

  This is especially a concern if you out doing school trips and updating your blog on the fly.

  How to turn off location tagging. On Android, Click Settings then Locations then un-tick My Location.

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• Android install APK

  Date: 2010.06.28 | Category: android, google, ict | Response: 1

  So you are beta testing an application or whatever and you have been given an .apk file to install.

  Before we start make sure you have the android device driver installed, if not you can download it here.

  1.  Plug the phone in to your PC with a USB Cable.  When prompted DO NOT mount USB.

  2.  On the phone goto Settings –> Applications then click the Unknown sources tick box.

  3.  On your PC Download the Android SDK

  4.  Extract the Android SDK to c:\androidsdk

  5.  Copy the .apk file you were given to c:\androidsdk\tools

  6.  Click Start –> Run then type in:

  c:\androidsdk\tools\adb install -r c:\androidsdk\tools\whatever.apk

  Make sure you replace whatever.apk with the name of the file you copied.

  7. Your application should now be installed.  Visit the application menu on the Android device and look for your icon.

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• Ye Olde Android adventure – Day 2

  Date: 2010.06.15 | Category: Primary School ICT., android, classdroid, google, ict, primary, primary school, school, schools, sdk | Response: 0

  Today as I ventured towards Droidville I met a sage who reminded me about some useful keystokes.

  Eclipse: Control Alt Down duplicates line
  Emulator: Rotate screen – Control F11

  As I moved closer to Droidville the air began to fill with hope, thousands of hopeful children and teachers poored into the streets, so I quickly hid and jumped into Bar Youtube (Part of the Starbucks chain) and watched another video to further my understanding of the power of Android, another good one this time by Ye old O’Reilly

  Building my team to fight the forces of evil

  I got in touch with a developer through rent-a-coder called Kumar Bibek who has 3 years experience fighting the forces of evil (developing Android apps). We had a conversation that went something line:  ”I can make the bow, can ye make the arrow?”  We agree’d on 100$ for the array (final bits of the work that were out of my skill set).

  Overview of the bits I’m doing:
  Making Classdroid look fit for a princess (Layout design/User interfaces)
  Making Classdroid easy to use  (Application flow)
  Making Classdroid link together (Intent assignments)
  Designing how Classdroid will save our princesses minions (Database design)

  Overview of the bits he’s doing:
  Not shooting the messenger (Code to read/write preferences/settings to/from SQLite)
  Carrier Pigeon nurturing (Control method for post to Wordpress)
  Controlling the Eye of  Gondor (Camera SDK modifications)

  In the Sage’s library I found a piece of parchment with some notes scribbled on it:
  Resource = text,pictures, sound objects, layout….
  Intent = change the page
  View = new page layout/display
  \n = newline when using text elements

  Very cryptic clues, maybe I will need them to enter the great hall of Droidville?

  It’s been a long day…..

  As the day drew to a close and the Sun nestled the hills of Azrowilsden I discovered Wordpress have an android application that does 80% of what I want to do from a control point of view so I’m going to hack into that to save me needing to write the function that posts the RPC over XML to Wordpress.  This is why the world should embrace more open source, it empowers us all instead of dumbing us down like iLem users who are too scared to google how to create an android application (or don’t see it being a valuable use of their time).

  As the iLem users fall off their platform I am gently warmed inside by the knowledge that we are creating a better, more open world without any corporate borders.  One application at a time.

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• Ye Olde Android adventure – Day 1

  Date: 2010.06.15 | Category: Primary School ICT., android, google, ict, primary, primary school | Response: 0

  

  Today I started on my journey towards Droidville, past the gargoyles of SDKs and into the realm of eclipse. I began my journey equiping myself with the finest weapons possible in the form of eclipse and android sdk including all the power ups and runes. I stopped for lunch at bar youtube where I indulged in an excellent documentary and began my developing whilst following the gentle, slightly distant voice of the presenter. “Whisper control shift oh! to the sage and ye be blessed with organized imports” I heard him mutter under his breath..

  Hours went by and the youtube video was stopped, rewound and replayed various times, as the sun set I had my Hello world working and some UIs designed, unfortunatly my Hello World app is called com.golf.. The icon is set. If this is groundhog day let it end…

  Flute playing and shots of rolling hills come into screen..

  Will tomorrow bring safer travels for our hero?

  

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