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Google’s mobile operating system and the stuff I do or try to do with it. A lot of the time it’ll be either music or automation related.
Who knew? Not me that’s for sure anyway! And, what’s more, it appears to be compatible with my old Orange San Francisco. Excellent. I shall download that and then maybe not really use it for a while then dramatically rediscover it in a few months.
Sounds like a plan doesn’t it?
I bought this little keyboard for my San Francisco Android phone. It works great with my iPhone 4, it pairs straight away and works like a dream. However, the San Francisco won’t see it at all and I can’t seem to find any software for it only. Maybe I’ll get it working tomorrow.
I remembered that I still have an old Android G1 knocking around. So I thought I’d upgrade it and see how useful it could be, perhaps using it with Tasker and PAW Server. It’s going to take a little while to get it all up and running though as this old G1 is on Android 1.5.
One thing that is quite interesting though is the ability to connect a G1 to an Arduino, with a little messing about of course. I might just give that a go.
It is of course great news to hear that the excellent Sunvox app has arrived for Android. Sunvox was always described as a cross platform modular tracker and it is truly cross platform now.
Sadly it won’t run on my under-powered old Android phone which is only running 2.2, as Sunvox requires 2.3, and even if I could get 2.3 on my device I doubt it would work very well as the CPU is quite slow. Still, I’m glad to see it and I’d happily pay for it as and when I upgrade.
Well done Alex!
Why yes it is. A nice little BBC Micro Emulator running on my Android. How useful is it? Well, not very to be honest, but fun nevertheless.
As part of my ongoing experimenting with Android and Tasker I decided to see if I could get tasker to make a recording every morning at a specific time and then send me a text to confirm it was done.
Well of course tasker is more than up to this and this morning it worked relatively well although I’m having a few problems with getting the file to play now, but I’m sure that’s just teething troubles. Once I’ve got that sorted I’ll start to post the recordings.
Einstein running on Android. So far I haven’t been able to do much with it as it’s so slow, but I’ll keep at it and see how I get on with it.
I’ve been messing around with Tasker for a few days now, and I have to say that it is one very good reason to move completely to Android. Tasker is so flexible and modular that it can do pretty much anything in terms of automating an Android device.
If there was a Tasker like app for iOS it would be a massive seller, but of course it doesn’t fit with the whole sandbox approach from Apple. Big big shame.
I found myself seriously considering a move to Android away from the iPhone on my next contract renewal, and if Apple don’t pull something stupendous out of the bag with the iPhone 5 I might just do it.
I’ll post some of my Tasker automations soon too, then you’ll see what I mean.
I only discovered today that there’s a relatively stable port of Einstein the Newton emulator, available for Android 2.2, so I’m going to try and get it running on my newly rooted San Francisco which could be very cool indeed!
I’ve spent some time today trying to get this Android device rooted and then updated to 2.2 so it can be a bit more useful. I was about to post that everything had gone really well when it started playing up so I rebooted it. It then got stuck in what seems like a loop where it just displays the Android logo then displays it again, and never gets any further.
So I completely reinstalled the ROM for 2.2 and it seems to be working ok now. I’ll be checking it again regularly tomorrow to see how it gets on, but hopefully it’ll hold up and prove to be a useful device.
I am Ashley Elsdon 