Saturday, October 2, 2010

What do you use your tablets for? Not for Blogging...

Hi again,

Highly recommended: Install Android System Info (authored by electricsheep) from Market.

This will give you a lot of information on what is going on inside of your cruz reader / android device in general. It also displays the androidID under the OS menu entry on the second tab.

Also, do not use your tablet for blogging, it does take forever to load the edit applet, and you cannot edit anything other than the Title line.... Editing the main blog entry window is not possible on my zt-180.

Highly recommended: Install barnacle wifi tether. It is available on the Market in some countries. I could not get this to show on my US based phone. Had to copy from another device and ./adb install it.

The FixCruxReader-0.04 hack described in this SlateDroid post finally gets some feedback of successful Market, Maps, Gmail installs on the Cruz Reader.

Now, with two tablets and a phone we have a bit of variance in terms of Android OS versions (1.6, 2.0, 2.1) it is time to get the Eclipse based development started, which is a bit of a problem since I am a programming fossil and am used to bare-bones development in assembler and Ansi C. Having some Borland GUI builder development under the belt I found the Eclipse environment (while certainly more capable) somewhat more messy. Eclipse/Android SDK will certainly give me some trouble.

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