Category Archives: Android/Linux

How To Export & Import Contacts Between Android Devices Or Gmail?

While it is easiest way to use Gmail for syncing contacts and calendar on Android, but some devices has certain issues on this features and also it is certainly not required.

In this lesson you will learn how to backup export and import all your contacts between your Android phones or email or both. You can also keep a contacts backup copy on your Google Drive for any time easy retrieval, when you need it.

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Apps Are Going Back To The Web – Run Android Apps Without Installation

Imagine you can make use of an Android App without the need of installation or download. This is nothing new but the same default functionality of world wide web (getting extended to the apps) where you simply need to type in domain and and press ENTER or click URL to fly to your destination.

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Google Cloud Vision API (BETA) Is Now Open For Developers

Recently Google has announced BETA release of it’s Google Cloud Vision API which can be a great service for developers. The API provides developers access to high value service that let’s anyone to develop and build up an idea. Anyone can make use of it and submit images to understand the content in them and detect objects such as car, dish, bird, read text or identify product logos and more.

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Sync & Access Your Passwords From Anywhere With Google Password Manager

All your passwords from Google Chrome and Android are saved with Google Smart Lock and can be easily accessed from across all your devices. Chrome has a built-in password manager that prompts you to save password whenever you login to any website.

Saved passwords are automatically synced to Google Password Manager and can be accessed anytime from any device via Google Account. Once passwords are synced they come automatically available after you login to Chrome from any device.

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Generating Android App Feature Graphics For Google Play

A Feature Graphic is required in order to get any app featured anywhere within Google Play. The purpose of featured graphic is to show off creative assets and more attract users.

Other than feature  graphic, Google Play also asks you to upload promo graphic, banner asset for Android TV, Hi-res icon and app screenshots.

In this lesson, you will learn about a very easy method of creating feature, promo, hi-res, Android TV and other graphics online to upload on Google Play.

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How To Use Instant Magnification On Your Android Device?

Today, a user of SANGKRIT.net emailed us asking about the sequence of steps he should follow to startup his business online. He also said that he suffers from vision problem since school age which now affects his smartphone and tablet usage very much. He asked us if anyone could design him an app to zoom screen of other apps and features he use on his Android device.

Everyday new apps are launched by startups and developers but not all apps provide you with zooming function. This sometimes cause difficulty to some users in reading, accessing and using features of many apps.

No worries, very much like to zooming photos and documents on Android, one can turn on built-in magnifying glass to clearly look stuff which is hard to see or read fine print on most Android smartphones.

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How To Combine Similar Contacts On Android?

Android automatically fetches contacts from various sources such as your Gmail account, Facebook profile and other online accounts including Yahoo and Skype etc.

Also sometimes you save same contacts multiple times of same person with different numbers. This results in duplicate contact entries on your Android smartphone or tablet. In such cases you can join similar contacts to cleanup your address book.

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Android Development – Make Your Andoird Device Blazing Fast

Every new Android version is different from other the older one. The user interface works on direct manipulation, with touch gestures that loosely correspond to real-world actions, for instance swiping, tapping and pinching for manipulating on-screen objects, alongside with a virtual keyboard to input text.

Android’s source code is released by Google under free software licenses, although most Android devices ultimately ship with a combination of free and proprietary software, including those proprietary software which are required for accessing Google services.

In this lesson you will learn about enabling developer options on your Android device and then programming it to perform tasks much faster than before with new blazing fast speed.

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How To Keep Multiple User Accounts On Your Android Device?

Very much like to Linux, MAC OS, Windows and other operating systems now Android also allows you to add another user account.

Like your computer desktops and laptops, some Android tablets can have more than one user account so that other users can have their own custom options, home screens, widgets on a single mobile device.

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Google’s New App Will Link Android Watches To Apple iPhones

Google is now trying to pursue iPhone users. The new app by Google is going to link Android watches to Apple iPhones. Likewise, till now Android watches were only programmed to work with Android smartphones. Similarly, Apple Watches are designed to be used exclusively with iPhones.

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Android Pay – Google’s New Mobile Wallet App Is Now Available

Android Pay is Google’s second mobile wallet app (after Google Wallet). It is fast, secure, tap-pay-done app, now officially available for download at Google Play.

It works with all NFC-enabled Android devices (running KitKat 4.4+), on any mobile carrier, at every tap and pay ready location across the US.

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Easily Match Android Lollipop Status Bar To Your WordPress Site Theme

Earlier we have discussed about matching the browser’s scrollbar to your WordPress site theme. In this tutorial we will show you how you can automatically match the new Android 5.0 Lollipop status bar with your website’s color scheme.  Continue reading Easily Match Android Lollipop Status Bar To Your WordPress Site Theme