For the last few years, one of the tool I have greatly used is a Huawei E587 modem. It’s a great little device which gave me a lot of freedom. Even if it is quite old, it outperforms, even without an external antenna any smartphone I used for tethering and especially my new Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo which, as a parenthesis, has one of the poorest software I have ever seen, reminds me of a circa 2000 windows pre-installed on a laptop and filled with junkware....
#Find the device adb devices #Find the package adb shell pm list packages | grep ro.len #Find the apk path adb shell pm path ro.len.test #Pull the package adb pull /data/app/ro.len.test-3.apk
This weekend was cloudy and it rained so I decided to give some more time to play with my android phone. Even since I got the phone some time ago I tried on several occasions to do some fun development on it but it never seemed quite fun as expected so beside some play with the sensors, gps and camera I did not do much. However this time I was decided to do a different kind of test....
Going on trip, one of the questions I asked myself is: should I pack a laptop, a gps, a camera? Now a new question: can a smartphone replace all these gadgets on a trip? The answer, based on my experience with my HTC Desire, Android based phone, is: yes, it can replace a laptop and a gps device on a city trip, but… Let me explain what I mean while I wait for my plane....
The reason why I haven’t wrote much here on the blog lately is that since I’ve got my android phone I’ve spent most of the free time tinkering with it. And by tinkering I mean developing simple applications and learning the framework. From my perspective spending a few hours coding something which in the end makes a simple (and some might say stupid) blink on the screen is way more entertaining than playing AngryBirds or Teeter....