Android Definition and 166 Threads

My phone has a setting called Dual Channel Network Acceleration within the WiFi setup menu. Once you enable it, it shows a short list of apps that can be individually permitted to use this feature -- Firefox, Chrome, Internet (Native browser) and WhatsApp. I would like to know what this does...

Hi, I uninstalled the PF app from my Android. Now I can't see it anymore on Google Play Store to reinstall it. Can you help me ? Thank you.

Hi Is this the best place to ask questions on Android phone as it's not exactly computer. I am trying to learn more on the filing system. I learn how to move files around by doing copy, move around. But I really hit a wall with "GALLERY". How to move file into gallery and all. I have been...

Android phone, where did my log off button go?

Whether Data in Star Trek, C3PO in Star Wars, Isaac in The Orville, or Arthur in Passengers: It seems to be a common trope that a spaceship always has “that one android character”. For Star Wars, in particular, C3PO is the only named humanoid droid in the main movies; R2-D2 and all the other...

Hi everyone My program saves files to user://. I'd like to find these files on my phone and copy them to another phone. Is it possible? I used ProjectSettings.globalize_path("user://") to show where the file saved and got /data/org.godotengine.[APP_NAME]/files/ However, when I went to...

Greetings folks. I have noticed that a lot of people into physics and math tend to use Androids (Samsung, etc), so here is a poll to see if that is true. I like both operating systems, but currently use a lower range Android, but am planning on getting a mid-range Android from Samsung instead of...

Should any Android apps be given access to its( Android) camera? Re a blackmailing email I recently received, I want to cover as many security angles as possible. So I recently checked the list of apps in my Android that have access to my camera. There were a few, WhatsApp and Google being...

Hello : I have a relative who created a book and a game based on that book, asking for him if any one here knows a good publishing company that can publish those products the book is children's book the game is based on the above book on android platform. Best regards hagop

A couple of years ago, I connected a USB printer to the USB socket on my broadband router. After a lot of trial and error (of which I remember no details) I was able to print from my windows laptop. Here are the port settings that currently work from the laptop: 1) Based on the above...

Might this be someone who either blocked me or didn't read my latest message on Android phone? I texted a person we'll call Dave (not his real name). There is a "Read" tag next to these messages with a time-stamp. Pretty nifty of Android to let me know when it was read. However, we had a...

Hi everyone I've uploaded an app to Google play with its own icon. This icon shows on my phone when I run the app from Android Studio. However, when I download my app from Google play, is appears on my phone with a generic Android logo instead. Does anyone know why this happens and how to...

Hi everyone I modified some code that originally displayed a toast when the screen was pressed and held. The original code used onTouchListener with a relative layout, but I changed it to a button instead. I think I've copied it correctly, but my program crashes when the button is clicked. I...

Hello. Would you please explain how secure are unofficial Android versions. I called them "unofficial" but I don't know the terminology. Android devices come with an Android version. Android OS frequently updates, having a higher number. So I guess the devices can be updated for some years but...

My new Lenovo tablet has a "battery protection mode". This is useful for example when you want to leave it on charge almost permanently, in which case the protection mode will charge and discharge between 40% and 60% in order to maximize battery life. Is there an API that can enable/disable...

Cool open source Air tag detector here. From, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/free-android-app-lets-users-detect-apple-airtag-tracking/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.11813.pdf

Hi All, Can anyone recommend a free/cheap app to track lost Android phones? Did a search and saw a few sources but wanted to see if someone here can personally recommend. In case it helps, its an LG K8.

I've got a new Samsung Android phone. Any recommendations for the best browser for PF usage in particular? It has only Samsung Internet at the moment.

Hi all, I would like to back up my Android's downloads, screenshots to my Win10PC. Unfortunately, when I connect the PC to the phone using the charger, the PC does not recognize it, so that's not an option. I can send myself an email from the phone to my PC , but then I have to attach some 500...

This is actually for my new Android app. But everything is written in Java and SQL; there is almost nothing that is specific to Android. I have a database, and the following three tables are of interest here: itemEntity with columns: itemID: integer primary key itemName: String; indexed to be...

Hi, I have an LG K8 Android 2018. I am having trouble with the volume in conversations. I tried changing different settings without success. Any suggestions on how to raise the volume level during conversations? Is it a physical issue of wear and tear of the microphone, an issue with settings...

I got as a gift the above tablet. Though one thing I am not quite sure is if I can write notes with a suitable pen on it? So is it possible? I mean electronic pen. I searched in google for "electronic pen for Eco Q7" but didn't find my answers to my query.

After publishing two apps on Google Play recently, I am currently looking for ways to translate my apps to different languages. In Android, all the strings used in the app are placed in the strings.xml file. If the app is installed on a device that is using a different locale, Android will first...

There are plenty of physics apps around already but most seem to just be words and pictures. I haven't found many that offer good simulators for proper textbook physics. So I made one. Pure Physicist - Google Play The underlying physics 'engine' uses the as yet incomplete University Physics...

to use zoom client meeting app on my tablet with Android version 6.0 although older version is installed but every time I try joining a meeting it asks for update and the latest version isn't compatible .also the browser isn't doing any good.

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Original post: On my Android phone desktop I had my Instagram app... and for some reason there were two icons (both worked). I uninstalled the app (in Manage apps in Settings), and one of the icons disappeared, but the other one is still there and working... but it does not not now show up in...

Summary: If you own an Android phone and are interested in helping me, please navigate to Settings → Sounds. Here, you will find the volume controls (in some phones, you will have an option "Volume" under which you will find all the controls). Please give me the following: a screenshot of the...

I have almost completed my first Android app. It let's the user set a date and time, after which the user picks a media file. The app plays the media when the time comes. The app comes with an inbuilt media player using the Android MediaPlayer API. The countdown and the playback are done in a...

I was trying out the Linux concept bind mount in Android. As everyone knows, Android is developed on Linux framework. I have a rooted phone, and also a terminal emulator with a busybox that supports most of the important Linux commamds. I ran the following commands: $su #cd /storage/emulated/0...

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Finally, after a lot of hesitation, I rooted my phone (Samsung Galaxy On7, Android 6.0.1) using Magisk systemless root. The main aim was to remove pre-installed useless software (often termed "bloatware"). I didn't want to flash Magisk using TWRP, because installing TWRP would remove the stock...

This is a known issue all over the net, and with almost all versions of Android, from KitKat to Oreo. If you have enabled contacts sync with Google, you might get the following error if you head to Accounts section under Settings, and then select Google: No official solution has been rolled...

Summary: I want to basically multipartition my pc and use MY android OS copied from my phone as the dual boot OS. Hi all, it's been awhile since I've posted. Sorry for AWOL. What I want to do: Partition my hard drive and run my exact copy of android on the other partition. Why: I want to...

Hi all, I bought a new ASUS Android recently and it is just eating up data like crazy; some 1.4 GB in around a week. Hotspot and Tethering alone has used up around 1GB in around a week. I selected data savings option and disabling access by background process but this seems extreme. Any advice?

Whenever I turn on my hotspot, the hotspot icon appears but then second later this icon appears on upper left side. Anyone know what it is by any chance? (the pic isn't screenshot obviously, but the icon looks identical to this. (the grey background = phone wallpaper) I guess its related to...

I noticed that when making apps there's activities which are the different classes and then there's the layout pages which are the different pages you see when using the app. My question is, is the standard to create one class/activity that handles most of layout pages, or a class/activity for...

Hi, My Android ZTE phone is not loading the OS, not completing POST andgiving me an Android Recovery error message . How can I read/use log files to recover phone? Here is the error message, and the files listed in it, which I can access using on/volume keys (On key selects, Volume allows me...

I have a Samsung Galaxy On7, Android 6.0.1. On my computer (Windows 7, 32-bit), I have adb and fastboot installed. I can work on my phone properly from adb. But the problem starts in fastboot mode. When I put my phone in bootloader mode, the computer takes the phone to be a modem. There are...

I have a Samsung Galaxy on7, running on Android 6.0.1. It has a lot of pre installed apps that I consider bloatware. I want to remove them completely from the phone. Recently, I tried removing these apps as per this video: But soon I found that it does not delete the system files, because...

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