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Creating a Lock Screen Device App for Android
Android SDK offers to developers a specific API, the Device Administration API, letting their users to lock the device screen directly inside an application. This feature can be interesting for some specific applications. In that tutorial, you are learning to create a Lock Screen Device App for Android using this feature. Note that you can also discover this tutorial in…
Detect device year class on Android with Facebook Device Year Class
When you make Android applications, it is always useful to know the year class of the running device. Indeed, with that information, you can adapt the behavior of your application to the smartphone or tablet of your users. Obviously, the main goal being to offer them a better experience with your application. For that, Facebook offers Device Year…
Monitor your Android devices accurately with CPU System Info 64
Android devices become more and more powerful. Now, Smartphones and Tablets are kind of real computers with pocket size. Besides, Android devices make always more operation in background which users ignore. So, how to monitor and to know accurately the capacities of your device ? What are its data and information ? To answer to these questions and know everything concerning your…
Discover latest rumors and info on the Samsung Galaxy S8
After the disaster of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the next Samsung flagship will be expected by everyone to see if they can fix their problems and regain consumers’ confidence. Expected to be unveiled during next Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February 2017, the Samsung Galaxy S8 is a much-anticipated device with a lot of rumors around it. In this…
Discover Google Pixel and Pixel XL, the smartphones made by Google
Google has just unveiled its first smartphones made by Google yesterday. Technically, they are made by HTC, but from a marketing perspective, they are all Google. So, they are running the latest Android version Nougat. Furthermore, Google has also put some magic inside and will assume the client relation. Named Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL, both devices have flagship…
Discover the latest info on the Samsung Galaxy Note 7
With the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, Samsung has found the path to success in 2016. Now, it’s time to prepare the following and to anticipate the iPhone 7 that will be announced in September. To fight against the next flagship from Apple, Samsung has planned a Galaxy Note Unpacked event on August 2, 2016. During this event, Samsung will…
How to retrieve an Unique ID to identify Android devices ?
Some developers can need an Unique ID to identify Android devices. Use cases where developers need this Unique ID are multiples. For example, when you want to : identify an Android user to store games scores on a server track apps installation generate DRM for copy protection. Several solutions exist but none is perfect. In this tutorial, we’re going to…
What’s the difference between Samsung Gear Fit 2 and Gear Fit ?
Last week, Samsung has just launched a new wearable, the Gear Fit 2, a new wrist-worn fitness tracker which combines the best bits of a fitness tracker and a smartwatch. The Gear Fit 2 is an attractive new product that brings a lot of improvements to its predecessor the Samsung Gear Fit. Launched two years ago, the Samsung Gear Fit…
After several weeks of leaks, HTC 10 is now official
After several weeks of leaks and rumors, HTC has unveiled its new flagship the HTC 10 yesterday. This new flagship has some arguments to help HTC to improve its situation in 2016. HTC has said "bye-bye" to One series and now, it's just HTC 10. Just to be mentioned but not so excited. So, give a look to complete specifications…
New flagship HTC 10 tops competition in AnTuTu 6 benchmark
Amongst Android major handsets of the first half of 2016 that must be announced, HTC 10 is the last. Last but not the least, since apparently first results of AnTuTu benchmark for HTC 10 show that the HTC new flagship tops the competition. Even the Samsung Galaxy S7 is behind the HTC 10 like you can see in the following…