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With Example of Device Agent Writer Installing Device Conductor Agent In our previous article series of configuring kiosk mode on...

The ATID ATS100 reader is a rugged barcode and UHF RFID reader that works with Android, iOS, and Windows. It offers both wireless...

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...

Resource leaks are some of the most pernicious bugs in large Android applications, because they occur in poorly-defined situations and...

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...

Building and maintaining a complex software system over time like Android (AOSP) can be a daunting task, especially when the system has...

This is a common paradigm in app development: I have a list of data objects representing, for example, recent shipments, and I want to...

First, Some History The Go programming language was first released by Google as an open source project in late 2009 as “an attempt to...

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...

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...

This article was written by Jay Slater, one of our software engineers. In the interest of broadening my horizons and being a...

What is AfW and what does it do? Android for Work (AfW) is a platform from Google that improves Android usability, security, and...

In our previous blog post called Implementing Kiosk Mode in Android: Part 3, we briefly explored the Device Owner concept that was...

Introduction In the world of smartphones, iOS has been dominating in the workplace, at least in the United States. The most recent data...

Hardware One of the quickest ways to jumpstart your project is by selecting some commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. Most COTS...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...