The AOKP ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Note Edge has been updated to 7.1.2! Be sure to check out the "homemade ROM's" page and get the latest download!

To God be the glory! My AOKP Nougat project for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S5 finally works! Be sure to check it out under my home made ROMs link in the menu bar!

The super cool background is supplied by the Quiet Learner, you can find more of his great …

Moving on from the S4, I began work on the Note Edge, only to be greeted with this error:

[CODE]
target thumb C: lights.APQ8084 \<= hardware/samsung/liblights/lights.c
hardware/samsung/liblights/lights.c:34:10: fatal error: 'liblights/samsung_lights_helper.h' file not found
#include \<liblights/samsung_lights_helper.h>
^
1 …

By now, I think I would remember this one by heart, yet every time, this error throws me for a loop....

[CODE]
external/apache-http/../../frameworks/base/core/java/android/net/http/SslCertificate.java:19: error: cannot find symbol
import com.android.internal.util.HexDump;
^
symbol: class HexDump
location: package com …

As I was wrapping up my work on the upgrade to 7.1.2 on the S4, I ran into this error, which prevented the compiler from building the userdata.img file. Here's the output:

[CODE]
get/product/jfltetmo/userdata.img
File "./build/tools/releasetools/build_image.py", line 157
print …

In the continuing saga of updating to 7.1.2, I've run into an interesting error about gr_text and gr_measure that are used to set the fonts properly when you are charging your phone while it is off. In 7.1.1, this worked just fine:

AOKP711/system/core/healthd …

In an attempt to update the AOKP 7.1.1 rom for the Samsung Galaxy S4 to 7.1.2, I received an error about AOKP712/hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c:179.18. The error complained that the CID_PATH was not defined, declared, or was not known.

Obviously, it was …

In my Android Developer Course, the instructor showed us how to create webviews and dataviews. I wanted to take that one step farther, so I made this app, which can switch between a dataview and a webview. You can download it here, just click on the floating button to switch …

While in the Android Developer Course, I am finding a little problem with using SQLlite. In Android Studio, when writing Java, Android Studio knows when the code you typed has an error, and it underlines it in red, showing you something you should fix.

However, when you are using SQLlite …

So, as part of my Android Developer Course by Rob Percival (which is excellent, and I highly recommend every computer/Android geek take), he showed us how to make use of SQLlite in our Android app. In the demonstration and challenge, he was using static inputs, like this:
// And add …