Last time, we have installed VNC server in Linux, along with a window manager, and connect to the server via a VNC client. What we got was a TWM. In this post, we are going to install a more modern WM, OpenBox. In the Distribution Management of Linux Installer, in none of the categories can [...]
Now that we have Debian Linux on the Android phone, since we only have the console environment, let’s install more software and have some fun. In the Linux Installer, press the Menu button, then Distribution Management. You will now see the following screen: This screen shows you a list software categories that you can choose [...]
In the last post, I’ve installed Lil’Debi to have a chroot Debian on my HTC Desire Z. Today, I’m going to use another Linux installer which is called, well, Linux Installer. You can install it from the Android Market. Linux Installer, like Lil’Debi, is an app that will download Debian packages from a repository and [...]
I always wanted to have a full Linux on my phone, not just a half-baked one such as Android. Then I saw Lil’ Debi, the Debian installer app for Android. I decided to give it a try to see how it works. You can grab the pre-built apk file here, or grab the source codes [...]
With all these new phones and tablets coming out, a lot of Android devices are now equipped with more than one SD cards. On these new devices, there is usually an internal (built-in) storage device, and an external storage device. The built-in storage device might not be an SD card, but the external storage device [...]
The Android Market policy is making developer’s life complicated for no reason. Firstly, registering a developer’s account is needlessly complicated. Secondly, an app must be free or paid, that forces developers to maintain two versions. Thirdly, if you have a paid app, you can’t set it temporarily to free, or set the price to 0, [...]
After getting my Android phone, I was looking for an app that would allow me to create an encrypted virtual disk (or volume, or a safe), and that would allow me to put anything in it, securely. I kept looking in the Android app store for a while, there are tons of tools for managing [...]
After over a month with a new Android phone, I’d say, it is the dumbest smart phone OS, out of the box. For an OS that came from a company that made its mark in search, you’d think it would have the best search capability. No, it has the worst of all. For such a [...]
In the last post, we have created a basic 3D demo application with Irrlicht, in which we put a stack of crates, and we topple them by shooting a cube or a sphere. In this post, we will try to create an on-screen control so that you can move around with it, like using a [...]
In the last post, we have built the Bullet Physics, Irrlicht and irrBullet libraries together to create a shared library for the Android platform. In this post, we are going to create a small demo 3D game for Android, using the libraries that we have built earlier. This demo is not really anything new, I [...]