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Some people have been told that if you want to use Gerrit code review, then you have to abandon some of your git skills and instead rely...

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...

On March 6, 2015, we released enhancements to Barliman*, our Barcode List Manager for Android that works with our EPX-B software. The...

For most people needing photos in business, the process of taking digital pictures is to take the photo using a digital camera 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...

This week marks a significant anniversary milestone for SDG Systems. On December 1, 2004, SDG’s co-founder, Todd Blumer, began working on...

Edit: As of 2020, Bluebird has discontinued manufacturing the BM-150R and the BM-170 handhelds, along with all their accessories such as...

As we have evaluated various Android-based barcode scanning solutions, we have repeatedly seen that they lack flexibility and features....

We conclude our series on integrating Android Studio with NDK projects with an example of wrapping the NDK process in an asynchronous...

Our Android Studio / NDK series continues with details on how to create a Gradle-oriented NDK project that references statically compiled...

Integrating an Android NDK library into an Android Studio application is under-documented and can lead to difficulty with complex build...

When creating html documentation with Oracle’s javadoc tool, it is often useful to be able to hide certain public elements that would...

This article presents some considerations regarding and how to convert from using Eclipse to Android Studio for developing applications....

This article will describe USB-based barcode scanners and how they can be used with an Android device. It will provide some advantages to...

In this article, we discuss some requirements of working with an Android porting vendor, or ODM. Source code and maintenance are...

SDG System’s Android Integration Framework for RFID provides most of the code needed to implement Android RFID integration for your...