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  Those interaction methods we can play with

Smartphones have become one important part of our lives, the phone apps also play more and more important roles. They can help us live through the boring time or help us connect to our close friends fat away from us or help us get information,etc.There are also some interesting interaction methods since the birth of smartphones. We can play with them while we interact with the smartphones. Here we summarize some of them.1. ShakeSince WeChat introduces the Shake method to find people which you don't know before, this interaction method becomes very popular. Many apps provide functions based on ...

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  Android Security

Android is an open source mobile platform that includes an operating system, middleware and applications. Android has revolutionized the mobile world in a big way. Android, which started as an alternative to Apple’s iOS, is now slowly eating into the market share of Apple and is of primary concern to the company. Let’s have a brief introduction about android and then look into the security concerns and vulnerabilities that need to be focused on.Android Introduction:Android was developed by Android Inc., which was purchased by Google in 2005. Due to the iPhone effect, Google has str...

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  Telecom elements in WeChat

As an engineer who spends much time on focusing on WeChat like applications(Skype, Fring, Viber, Kik Messenger, WhatsApp, Talkbox, LINE, Kakao Talk) , I would like to share with you the telecom element in WeChat to show the inheritance and integration of traditional telecom services in the Internet service and applications.First, WeChat is an application to send messages, the fully IP-based messaging capabilities may replace the traditional telecom services such as SMS, MMS and VMS ,This is very painful for telecommunication operators, because this will inevitably impact on the traditional bus...

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  Create wireless hotspot on your smartphone

It's now very common that you may not get Internet connection in first few days when you move to a new place. And you may have some important things to handle or you may just want to connect to Internet and share with others your new place. If you have a smartphone which has enough mobile data package, then you are on the way to enjoy Internet. Today we will introduce how to create a wireless hotspot on your smartphone with Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300.Step 1Go to Settings -> More Settings -> Tethering and portable hotspot .Here you have three choicesPortable Wi-Fi hotspot : It will create a ...

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  Add ContextMenu to a customized View in Android

In Android, we may sometimes need to add ContextMenu to a View, it's not so easy to add ContextMenu to a customized View. Here we explain how to add ContextMenu to a customized View.First, we may need to create View.OnCreateContextMenuListener so that the customized view can register for it.Here is the class definition:public class GraphView extends View {    private View.OnCreateContextMenuListener vC = new View.OnCreateContextMenuListener() {        @Override        public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, Vi...

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  Create animated refresh button in Android

In Android, we can have drawings on a button, also we can put animated drawings on a button as well. Today we will show how to create an animated refresh button with an animated spinner on it.We need to create an animated drawing first. Here we name it as progress.xml and put it in the res/drawable folder:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:id="@+id/spin_refresh" android:oneshot="false">    <item android:drawable="@drawable/ic_action_refresh1" android:duration="4...

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  Android 4.0+ occupies quarter of Android market

Google updates its developer page about Android platform version market share. From the latest data, we can find Android 4.0 and above system occupy around 25% of all Android market. But Android 2.3 Gingerbread still occupies over 50% of Android market.From the above chart, Android 4.0 has 23.7% market share, the latest Android 4.1 JellyBean takes 1.8%, these two have 25.5% market share in total. But Android 2.3 Gingerbread alone still dominates the Android market, it takes 55.8% market share. Besides 2.3 and 4.0, the third largest is Android 2.2 Froyo, with 12.9% market share, followed by 2.1...

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  Will camera be Android's next target after smartphone and tablet?

In Samsung's Mobile Unpack conference, Samsung announced one Android smart camera which supports 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. This smart camera called Galxy Camera is equipped with the latest Android 4.1 system, 21 times zoom, 23mm ultra-wide-angle lens and 16 megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor, along with the OIS image stabilization technology. You can install various Android applications on this smart camera and edit photos and then share, it also comes with voice control function and cloud storage technology.Polaroid and Nikon have launched Android-equipped smart camera prior to Samsung. Now Samsu...

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