Android
Inventory of Android devices
- CAT S22 flip phone, Android 11 GO
- Sunbeam F1 Orchid flip phone, technically it's Android :-)
- Moto G Power 2021 phone (2 of them) No NFC
- Moto E4+ phone (2 of them) No NFC
- Google Nexus phone has NFC Might be this one?
- Lenovo 8" Tab M8 TB-8505F (Hinge Health) Android 9 "Pie" Cortex-A53-2Ghz 2/32GB (No NFC)
- Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" SM-T387T s/n R52M50MZR8V Android 10 Cortex-A53 4core 1.4GHZ 2/32GB (No NFC)
10" tablet from Patrice, maybe an ASUS? She was going to recycle it. Works perfectly. Something is very wrong with Western Civilization.
G Power phones are too big (I think) and run Android. I'd rather not support Google. I think our next phones will be feature phones.
The E4+ phones were fine, but the provider started requiring VoLTE (VOIP over LTE) and is shutting down CDMA to move to 5G. We got E4+ phones because they supported CDMA and that worked better in Astoria in 2017.
The Google Nexus phone was fine but supports only GSM and HSPA+ so it did not work well in Astoria. I had CyanogenMod on it for several years.
There's a 7" tablet that came on our Echelon bike in the closet. I removed it when the free subscription ran out.
Android development
Go
Go language or golang if you prefer
Writing services for Android in Go https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2014/03/19/go-golang-and-android/ I think the idea here is that you can replace C native code with GO. See also https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/2kv0s1/go_14_on_android/
So it would be useful currently for example to talk to hardware.
Or maybe it could implement a tile downloader, that is, the network/concurrent part.
Settings
That ellipsis thing (three vertical dots) is called "Settings".
I want my app to show a menu when the user clicks on it, so I have to add a PreferencesActivity. I also need to associate the resources with it to define what shows up.
Samples
AccelerometerPlay
ActionBarCompat
AndroidBeamDemo
ApiDemos
AppNavigation
BackupRestore
BasicGLSurfaceView
BluetoothChat
BluetoothHDP
ContactManager
content_hash.properties
CrossCompatibility
CubeLiveWallpaper
GestureBuilder
HelloEffects
Home
HoneycombGallery
JetBoy
KeyChainDemo
LunarLander
MultiResolution
NotePad
RandomMusicPlayer
RenderScript
SampleSyncAdapter
SearchableDictionary
SipDemo - VOIP phone app, almost works with our PBX. Phone apparently registers but I can't get calls to go. Does show how to use the ellipsis thing though (...).
SkeletonApp
Snake
SoftKeyboard
SpellChecker
Spinner
SpinnerTest
TicTacToeLib
TicTacToeMain
ToyVpn
TtsEngine
USB
VoicemailProviderDemo
VoiceRecognitionService
WeatherListWidget
WidgetPreview
WiFiDirectDemo
Wiktionary
WiktionarySimple
XmlAdapters
