Android
All posts related to Google’s Linux-based, open source mobile operating system Android. For a summary of the most essential Android articles at TechCredo.com, check out Android Basics.
March 13, 2011
There are many image collections here at TechCredo with the official, preloaded wallpapers from various Android devices – and here’s another one. These wallpapers have been extracted from Sony Ericsson’s new flagship device Xperia Arc.
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, For Fun, Wallpapers | Tagged Android, Arc wallpapers, Backgrounds, Default, Official, Preloaded, SE, Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, Standard, Wallpapers, Xperia Arc
March 10, 2011
Catch Notes is my favorite notes app for Android, and it’s also one of the apps I use most often regardless of category. I know that there are several excellent apps for transferring links and other information between your phone and your desktop computer and vice versa, but Catch Notes is so convenient to use [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Catch Notes, Phone to desktop, Share links, Share tweets, Sync
March 9, 2011
Even though Android’s task switching feature has been rather mundane up until Honeycomb, it has served its purpose very well. By longpressing the Home button, we’ve been able to switch between recent apps – and for 9 out of 10 users this will probably suffice. But if you want to expand and customize the app [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Reviews | Tagged Android, App switchers, Clutch Pad, Multitasking, Smart Taskbar, Steve Albright, SwipePad, Task switchers
March 4, 2011
The godfather of video game console emulation on Android, yongzh, is back with a Nintendo 64 emulator called N64oid. He already had many different Sega and Nintendo emulators in the Market, so yongzh is a coder who’s an expert on bringing retro video games to modern Android smartphones. N64oid was released yesterday, and yongzh admits [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Reviews | Tagged Emulation, Emulator, N64, N64oid, Nintendo 64, ROMs, Top emulators for Android, yongzh
March 3, 2011
Android is getting more and more great games for each day that passes. However, the games that feature the most advanced 3D graphics generally require the very latest hardware, such as a dual-core Tegra 2 processor. Those games are showcased in Nvidia’s TegraZone app. But luckily, there are also many games that rely on fun [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Reviews | Tagged Android, Doodle Bowling, Game recommendations, GameResort, Jean-François Geyelin, Meganoid, OrangePixel, PewPew, Reviews, Stupid Zombies, Top Android Games
March 2, 2011
The Android Debug Bridge, usually referred to as ADB, is a command line tool with the purpose of controlling an Android device from a computer via a USB link. The ADB command comes bundled with the Android SDK (Software Development Kit) that developers need to make apps for the platform. You can do all sorts [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Tutorials | Tagged ADB, Android, Android Debug Bridge, Apps, Delete, Guide, How to, HTC Desire, Preinstalled, Push, Remove, Tutorial
March 1, 2011
Google has said that Honeycomb’s new interface style eventually will come to handsets as well. But if you want to give your phone some of that Android 3.0 look and feel right now, these standard Honeycomb wallpapers will do the trick. They’ve been extracted from the latest Honeycomb SDK. Enjoy!
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, For Fun, Wallpapers | Tagged Android 3, Backgrounds, Default, Honeycomb wallpapers, Official, Preloaded, Standard, Wallpapers
February 23, 2011
Yesterday, I wrote a guide to creating and applying a static boot screen for Android phones instead of the default animation that usually is displayed. Thus, it seemed appropriate with a tutorial for making a full boot animation as well. You naturally need a rooted Android device for this to work. Download TechCredo’s boot animation [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Apply, Boot animation, Bootanimation, Build, Create, Custom, desc.txt, Explanation, Flash, How to, Step-by-step, Tutorial
February 22, 2011
Android is of course a very customizable mobile platform, and having root access lets you personalize your phone even further. It’s very common to change Android’s boot animation, and there are tons of different animations posted on the interwebs that you can flash. There will probably be a “top Android boot animations” post here on [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Boot animation, Boot screen, Customization, desc.txt, How to, Static, Template, Tutorial
February 21, 2011
Retro video game console emulators on phones – we all love them. And if you don’t, well, you probably should, because old-school gaming can be very entertaining and smartphones and emulators are a perfect match. Android’s openness makes it one of the best platforms for console emulation, and there are virtually flawless emulators available for [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Games + Emu | Tagged Accessories, Bluetooth Game Gripper, Controller, Emulation, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game controller, Game Gripper, Game pad, GBA, NES, PlayStation, Sega, SNES, Video Game Consoles
February 19, 2011
Have you ever wondered why the screen on your 32-inch TV is way more than 10 times bigger than the display on your 3.2-inch phone? Or why the screen on your 3.7-inch smartphone is over twice as big as your old 2.4-inch dumbphone? The answer is most likely no, but here’s an explanation anyway. This [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Random Tech, Tutorials | Tagged Displays, Explanation, Inches, Measured, Measurement, Screen comparisons, Screen sizes, Touchscreen sizes
February 19, 2011
To change the homescreen wallpaper is of course the easiest and most popular way of customizing an Android device. I usually copy entire folders with wallpapers in them from my computer to the Images folder on my Android’s SD card, and TechCredo hosts many large wallpaper collections. But there are several excellent apps in the [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews, Wallpapers | Tagged Android, Backgrounds, Best, Grallery, Top, Wallpaper apps, Wallpapers, Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers
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