In my previous article, Installing Jelly Bean on Nexus One, I discussed how I was able to install Jelly Bean on my NexusOne using couple of tools and helper applications. However, after a couple of days of exploring it, I decided to try to downgrade it back to Gingerbread (mainly because of the Camera issues). […]
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Installing Jelly Bean on Nexus One
I have my Nexus One for more than a year. Although its stock OS (Gingerbread) is quite outdated, I still overall love it. But I must admit that it’s quite outdated OS now. So, I decided to upgrade this to Android Jelly Bean with hope to learn a lot during this process. First of all, […]
Changing color of the Drawable or ImageView at runtime in Android
When working on a new Android application, we needed to show an icon (for info) in different colors depending on the different system states. Something like: Red – When there are some error in the system Green – If everything is working correctly. Yellow – There are some warnings for the user to review. We […]
Captain Jack Sparrow Compass
I will soon be publishing my new Android Application called “Jack Sparrow Compass” which is inspired by legendary Jack Sparrow Compass. The following dialog from the movie Pirates of Caribbean best describe this: “My compass…is unique.” “Unique here having the meaning of broken?” “True enough, this compass does not point north.” “…Where does it point?” […]
Android HTTPS and Not trusted server certificate Error
When working on a Android REST based web-service client on Android platform, I was getting following error when calling the API over the HTTPS: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Not trusted server certificate The reason for this problem is quite obvious and that’s, on the development server, I was using the self signed certificate and it was causing this […]