In the continuing adventures of higher education and personal learning, I made a simple little guessing game for Android, as instructed by my online course for Android app development. It is a very basic game, where the user must guess the number Android is thinking of. You can download it …

GitHub. Android. They should be friends. At least, that's what I thought. Yet time and time again, I was settling for less than fully functional GitHub apps. Sure ForkHub and other similar apps are great for BROWSING GitHub, but I wanted an app to actually CONTROL GitHub. Finally, I found …

I learned so many things while making the S4 GPU voltage control app, that I thought it would be appropriate to break it down into groups.

Here is the source on GitHub:

https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/S4_GPU_voltage_control_app

And a download link for the app itself: http://www.mediafire.com/file …

With the code from Ktoonsez to allow the control of the GPU voltage added to my Galaxy S4 kernel, one could now adjust the voltage of each stage of the GPU frequencies. However, until now, to the best of my knowledge, the only way to control it is to manually …

I never realized just how much goes into an app before trying to learn how to make one work! At the same time, I never realized how simple the individual pieces of the app can be.

Here is another app that I made for the course:

https://www.mediafire.com …

​This android developer course is actually pretty fun! There are several hard parts, and a few "scratch my head" moments, but Rob does a great job of explaining what to do.
Here's my latest creation:
https://www.mediafire.com/download/168pmpux75y8w9u

It is a simple app that changes the picture …

As I continue my studies in Android app making, I was a bit surprised that we had not yet covered how to change your application's icon. I suppose making the app actually work is the most important part, so I am glad that we are focused on that. However, the …

As I have mentioned previously, I am continuing my studies with an online course from Udemy by Rob Perceval about how to build Android apps. Here is my latest creation:

https://www.mediafire.com/download/1l8ba54llk4c2y4
It's a simple app, but I am excited because it is the first truely …

In the continuing adventures of Android Studio and app development, I ran into yet another error while trying to import someone else's work off of github:

[CODE]
Error:Gradle version 2.2 is required. Current version is 2.14.1. If using the gradle wrapper, try editing the distributionUrl in …

While building roms for the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge (TBLTETMO, TBLTEXX) I ran into an issue where the recents button was not working. So, I pulled a logcat, and here is what I saw:

KeyEvent { action=ACTION_UP, keyCode=KEYCODE_UNKNOWN, scanCode=254, metaState=0, flags=0x208, repeatCount=0, eventTime=182478, downTime …