The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

  • My badges

  • Twitter Updates

  • My Flickr Stream

  • Pages

  • All categories

  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 1,861 other subscribers

Archive for the ‘Mobile Development’ Category

Raspberry Pi | RTAndroid

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/03

Raspbyerry Pi 3 are very versatile. Not just for your light weight Linux installation or Windows 10 IoT, but also for Android experimentation.

On my research list is [WayBackRaspberry Pi | RTAndroid:

Raspberry Pi 3 This page provides a device-specific tutorial for installing RTAndroid on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. Single-board computing devices

It’s an Android 7 (codenamed Android N, now Android Nougat) distribution with Raspberry Pi images (nowadays Raspberry Pi 3, but should run on older as well). Which means you do not have to upgrade your phone to use more recent versions of Android to program against.

–jeroen

via: [WayBackFixed by Code: Running Delphi applications on Raspberry Pi 3 and [WayBackA bit of ravings: https://fixedbycode.blogspot.dk/2016/12/running-delphi-appl…

Posted in Android, Development, Mobile Development | Leave a Comment »

Open source app to detect bluetooth gas pump credit card skimmers – Skimmer Scanner – Android Apps on Google Play

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/15

Before you fill up your car, check if you potentially can be skimmed: Skimmer Scanner – Android Apps on Google Play

The app is open source at sparkfunX/Skimmer_Scanner: A mobile app for detecting bluetooth gas pump credit card skimmers.

A long article about reverse engineering these skimmers is at [WayBack] Gas Pump Skimmers – learn.sparkfun.com including tools to get the data out: [WayBackMPLAB PICkit 3 – PGM-09973 – SparkFun Electronics

All via: [WayBack] Gas pump skimmers – what you need to knowIf you’re on android, there’s an app that essentially finds and pairs with the skimmer to see if it’s active… – Lars Fosdal – Google+

–jeroen

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Android, Development, LifeHacker, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/23

At the recent Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit, Mozilla Technical Evangelist Dietrich Ayala proposed a simple and affordable solution to home automation: A discarded smartphone can handle some of the most useful home automation tasks without requiring expensive hubs and sensors — or risking data security in the cloud.

I’ve been awaiting talks like this for years basically because I didn’t take the time to try myself.

Source: Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information [WayBack]

–jeroen

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, LifeHacker, Mobile Development, Power User | Leave a Comment »

How-To: Create a free Apple developer account for sideloading apps | 9to5Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/16

Interesting: Starting with Xcode 7, Apple made it possible to sideload apps on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV using a free Apple ID. Although a paid developer account is still required to deploy apps to the App…: How-To: Create a free Apple developer account for sideloading apps | 9to5Mac

Posted in Apple TV, Development, iOS, iOS Development, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | Leave a Comment »

Ever wanted to download adb or fastboot without having to download the whole of Android Studio?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/10

Quotes from [WayBack] Ever wanted to download adb or fastboot without having to download the whole of Android Studio?…but didn’t want to download executables from some… – Elliott Hughes – Google+

Article:

These links will always return the adb/fastboot binaries currently shipping with Android Studio. No need to guess what the current version is, or update your own links: just follow these and get the latest binaries, direct from the source.

Comments:

A package manager is overkill. `wget -O adb.zip  https://dl.google.com – dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip && unzip -d ~/bin/ adb.zip && export PATH=”$PATH;~/bin/platform tools”` should let you call `adb devices` and you can add the export to your .bashrc if you want it always available without changing into ~/bin/platform tools.
+Elliott Hughes Any chance we can get something to tell us when it is updated? I know you probably don’t care about bandwitdh, but would be nice to know when updates are pushed.

+dragon788 dragon_788 Or, you can install adb & fastboot from the repo’s then run this script every once in awhile to stay up to date:

#!/bin/bash
wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip
unzip \platform-tools-latest-linux.zip
sudo cp platform-tools/adb /usr/bin/adb
sudo cp platform-tools/fastboot /usr/bin/fastboot

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] finally.gif… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+

Posted in Android, Development, Mobile Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Unbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/30

On the reverse engineering of an early Pokemon Go apk, the protocol it uses and some more interesting findings: Unbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium

–jeroen

Posted in Android, Development, Java, Java Platform, Mobile Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Revamped Android Screen Recording and Mirror: no root required. Android 5+: record to GIF and video Mirror…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/13

This is so cool:

Revamped Screen Recording and Mirror app is live.No root required. Android 5.0+.Supports recording to GIF and video.Mirroring to Fire TV, Apple TV,… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+

Not just for software developers as it’s very useful for power users as well.

–jeroen

Posted in Android, Android Devices, Development, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Vysor Pro Feature – Go Wireless to mirror and control your device without a USB Cable…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/06

If you have a [Wayback/Archive] Vysor Pro (either subscription or one-time payment for life-long usage), then you can use this new [Wayback/Archive] New Vysor Feature – Go Wireless Click that button to mirror and control your without a USB cable…

There are more Pro features to come; currently they are:

  • High Quality Mirroring
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • Go Wireless
  • Vysor Share
  • Drag and Drop Files
  • Access to all future features

If Google Pay doesn’t work in your country, then you can use PayPal. When that doesn’t work either, well…

Another nice Vysor Pro feature: [Wayback/Archive] Vysor Share Server – an easy Android device farm: You can share all your Android devices at once using the new Share All feature. – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+

Vysor links:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Android, Android Devices, Development, Mobile Development, Power User, Vysor | Leave a Comment »

Android ADB over TCP/IP

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/19

Android ADB over TCP/IP can be a bit of a pain to setup. Some devices have a built-in option to enable this (by default on port 5555), otherwise you have to connect through USB first, then use ADB to enable TCP/IP:

adb tcpip 5555

I got it to work without being root, but on some devices you need to be.

See these links for more information:

Note that while writing this, ADB For Chrome could not run over TCP/IP.

–jeroen

Posted in Android, Android Devices, Development, Mobile Development, OnePlus One, Power User, Software Development | 2 Comments »

networking – Is there a command or application similar to ipconfig? – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/18

Trick:

use “netcfg” to list all available devices

It will show you the IP addresses associated with them too.

On my OnePlus One, it was wlan0.

–jeroen

via networking – Is there a command or application similar to ipconfig? – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange.

Posted in Android, Android Devices, Development, Mobile Development, OnePlus One, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »