Provisioning and Controlling Android Devices with a Device Owner Application
With Example of Device Agent Writer Installing Device Conductor Agent In our previous article series of configuring kiosk mode on...
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- Jul 16, 2018
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ATID ATS100 Introduction and Setup
The ATID ATS100 reader is a rugged barcode and UHF RFID reader that works with Android, iOS, and Windows. It offers both wireless...
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- Apr 6, 2018
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Android USB Permissions
Suppose we’re writing a device driver for a USB device, implemented as an Android Service. Our driver checks to see if it has permission...
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- Feb 3, 2017
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Android Memory and File Descriptor Leaks, Diagnosis and Debugging
Resource leaks are some of the most pernicious bugs in large Android applications, because they occur in poorly-defined situations and...
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- Jan 6, 2017
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Deploying Jenkins for Android Builds
Jenkins is a great way to automate your builds. Setting it up can be a little tricky, so here are a bunch of lessons learned from setting...
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- Oct 21, 2016
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Building Android in a Container
Building and maintaining a complex software system over time like Android (AOSP) can be a daunting task, especially when the system has...
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- Oct 19, 2016
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Android ViewPager with Fragments: Tutorial and Sample Project
This is a common paradigm in app development: I have a list of data objects representing, for example, recent shipments, and I want to...
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- Sep 13, 2016
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Android on the Go
First, Some History The Go programming language was first released by Google as an open source project in late 2009 as “an attempt to...
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- Aug 29, 2016
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Handy Android Studio Tips and Tricks
If you use Google’s Android Studio (AS) for development, you owe it to yourself to watch out this video from the developers during Google...
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- Aug 4, 2016
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How to Not Lose All the Photos and Videos on Your Android Phone
A few weeks ago something unexpected happened: the SD card in my wife’s Android phone completely died, and she lost two month’s worth of...
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- Jun 22, 2016
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Android Optimizations for Responsiveness: With a Warning About Leaking Activities
This article was written by Jay Slater, one of our software engineers. In the interest of broadening my horizons and being a...
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- Mar 1, 2016
- 4 min
An Introduction to Android for Work
What is AfW and what does it do? Android for Work (AfW) is a platform from Google that improves Android usability, security, and...
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- Feb 19, 2016
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Android Device Owner
In our previous blog post called Implementing Kiosk Mode in Android: Part 3, we briefly explored the Device Owner concept that was...
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- Oct 22, 2015
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Enterprise Android Deployment Best Practices
Introduction In the world of smartphones, iOS has been dominating in the workplace, at least in the United States. The most recent data...
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- Aug 27, 2015
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Jumpstart Your Android Project
Hardware One of the quickest ways to jumpstart your project is by selecting some commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. Most COTS...
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- May 5, 2015
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Android SIP/VoIP Setup
Voice over IP, or VoIP, allows you to make and receive phone calls using a data network (like the internet) rather than phone lines or...
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- Jan 26, 2015
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Implementing Kiosk Mode in Android - Part 3: Android Lollipop (and Marshmallow)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Part 3: Android Lollipop (and Marshmallow) Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and 6.0 (Marshmallow) now have an official Kiosk...
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- Dec 9, 2014
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Android Shell Tricks: Using Mass Provisioning as an Example, Part 3
Part 1 Part 2 Settings Say you have 400 devices to provision before deployment--how do you configure them all? And how can you guarantee...
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- Dec 5, 2014
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Android Shell Tricks: Using Mass Device Provisioning as an Example, Part 2
Part 1 Part 3 Packages Now let’s install an app: adb install MyAwesomeApp.apk Uninstalling an app is a little more work, because the app...
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- Dec 4, 2014
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Android Shell Tricks: Using Mass Device Provisioning as an Example, Part 1
Part 2 Part 3 Android’s user interface is easy to use, but what if you need to automate interaction with a device, for example to...
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