Provisioning and Controlling Android Devices with a Device Owner Application
With Example of Device Agent Writer Installing Device Conductor Agent In our previous article series of configuring kiosk mode on...
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Jul 16, 20182 min read
ATID ATS100 Introduction and Setup
The ATID ATS100 reader is a rugged barcode and UHF RFID reader that works with Android, iOS, and Windows. It offers both wireless...
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Apr 6, 20182 min read
Android USB Permissions
Suppose we’re writing a device driver for a USB device, implemented as an Android Service. Our driver checks to see if it has permission...
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Feb 3, 20175 min read
Android Memory and File Descriptor Leaks, Diagnosis and Debugging
Resource leaks are some of the most pernicious bugs in large Android applications, because they occur in poorly-defined situations and...
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Jan 6, 20172 min read
Deploying Jenkins for Android Builds
Jenkins is a great way to automate your builds. Setting it up can be a little tricky, so here are a bunch of lessons learned from setting...
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Oct 21, 20164 min read
Building Android in a Container
Building and maintaining a complex software system over time like Android (AOSP) can be a daunting task, especially when the system has...
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Oct 19, 20164 min read
Android ViewPager with Fragments: Tutorial and Sample Project
This is a common paradigm in app development: I have a list of data objects representing, for example, recent shipments, and I want to...
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Sep 13, 20164 min read
Android on the Go
First, Some History The Go programming language was first released by Google as an open source project in late 2009 as “an attempt to...
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Aug 29, 20164 min read
Handy Android Studio Tips and Tricks
If you use Google’s Android Studio (AS) for development, you owe it to yourself to watch out this video from the developers during Google...
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Aug 4, 20162 min read
How to Not Lose All the Photos and Videos on Your Android Phone
A few weeks ago something unexpected happened: the SD card in my wife’s Android phone completely died, and she lost two month’s worth of...
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Jun 22, 20165 min read
Android Optimizations for Responsiveness: With a Warning About Leaking Activities
This article was written by Jay Slater, one of our software engineers. In the interest of broadening my horizons and being a...
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Mar 1, 20164 min read
An Introduction to Android for Work
What is AfW and what does it do? Android for Work (AfW) is a platform from Google that improves Android usability, security, and...
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Feb 19, 20164 min read
Android Device Owner
In our previous blog post called Implementing Kiosk Mode in Android: Part 3, we briefly explored the Device Owner concept that was...
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Oct 22, 20157 min read
Enterprise Android Deployment Best Practices
Introduction In the world of smartphones, iOS has been dominating in the workplace, at least in the United States. The most recent data...
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Aug 27, 20153 min read
Jumpstart Your Android Project
Hardware One of the quickest ways to jumpstart your project is by selecting some commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. Most COTS...
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May 5, 20152 min read
Android SIP/VoIP Setup
Voice over IP, or VoIP, allows you to make and receive phone calls using a data network (like the internet) rather than phone lines or...
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Jan 26, 20154 min read
Implementing Kiosk Mode in Android - Part 3: Android Lollipop (and Marshmallow)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Part 3: Android Lollipop (and Marshmallow) Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and 6.0 (Marshmallow) now have an official Kiosk...
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Dec 9, 20142 min read
Android Shell Tricks: Using Mass Provisioning as an Example, Part 3
Part 1 Part 2 Settings Say you have 400 devices to provision before deployment--how do you configure them all? And how can you guarantee...
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Dec 5, 20141 min read
Android Shell Tricks: Using Mass Device Provisioning as an Example, Part 2
Part 1 Part 3 Packages Now let’s install an app: adb install MyAwesomeApp.apk Uninstalling an app is a little more work, because the app...
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Dec 4, 20142 min read
Android Shell Tricks: Using Mass Device Provisioning as an Example, Part 1
Part 2 Part 3 Android’s user interface is easy to use, but what if you need to automate interaction with a device, for example to...
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