Hi guys,
I'm a student who did a project proposal using the Nexus S for my final semester for my BSc, thinking that the APIs involved for my project would be easily accessible in the SDK (lol, from my reading so far... not so).
So now that I'm this far in (having bought a Nexus S and being almost 3 weeks in) I cannot change my topic of my study. Now, before I buy any more equipment, can anyone experienced in the field lend me a helping hand with some information?
A function which I thought would be basic, card emulation, is apparently not available. I had planned to use the Nexus S in card emulation mode -- With the help of a reader (ACR122U was being considered) connected to a PC and a mock POS (point of sales) program, I planned to recognise an individual's phone, and add and subtract data from their "accounts" accordingly.
So - since card emulation is not available, what are my options? I would greatly appreciate any one leading me in the right direction with this before I invest more money and time in this.
Thank you much
Anybody have any expertise in this at all?
Card Emulation IS possible on the Nexus S, since the NFC Chip (NXP PN65) is present!
Inside Secure's Open NFC enables such functionality.
I haven't found any information on real success in this field though.
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I'm trying to find a gps app to run on my Raphael that is capable of recording/logging a trip including timestamps.
I want to be able to replay the trip precisely, preferably on the phone, but if absolutely necessary I'd be willing to replay it on a laptop computer (I have a macbook pro and am running windows vista in a virtual machine) and logically I can replay it from a website as well.
Specifically, I want to be able to replay this in a courtroom in front of a judge, but I don't need to make a grand show of it (thus the reason I prefer replaying from the phone rather than carrying in a laptop).
Any advice would be great. I've considered writing my own app for this, but I really need to be able to replay the trip with graphical maps visible, which makes it more difficult to do. I've got TomTom installed already (which doesn't have this feature built-in as far as I'm aware).
tracking
I have not found a software which does what you are expecting, so I have acquired a TRACKSTICK PRO which does all what you require including tracing the trip on google earth!!
Hope this help
Chris from snowy Chamonix (France)
A completely new device, especially one without it's own ability to navigate would just add to an already excessive bunch of cables and take up a valuable power plug.
I can't figure out where or how to purchase one. The "get it now" button just takes you to a form to submit for them to call you back...This and the fact that it claims to be a "low-cost" solution makes me think that they aren't very interested in dealing with single unit sales.
Thanks for the advice, it's just not what I had in mind.
TrackMe might be what you are looking for.
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TrackMe might be what you are looking for.
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This looks pretty good I think. At least it's great for tracking and exporting, at least a little easier to work with than GpsGate which appears to only do NMEA sentences and a few file formats that nothing else reads. But this still leaves me trying to find the best way to present it.
I'd still like to be able to do sort of a playback of the trip rather than just data points on a map...and I'm still holding out hope for demonstrating the trip from my phone, but I'm starting to realize that none of the major GPS nav apps seem to have this feature, or at least I haven't found proof that they do. I think iGo might have a record/playback feature, but i haven't been able to verify.
Hi guys,
I've searched this forum and haven't found an answer to my question, so I'm gonna post it here. (Hopefully I did the search right and didn't commit the felony of a double post. )
I'm planning on buying a new phone, mainly because my old HTC Charmer (WM 6.1) doesn't support SDHC cards and the maximum of 4GB of the cards I can use with it is just not enough any more.
So far, I've read quite some disappointing details about Windows Phone 7:
- No more "free" apps (by which I mean apps programmed by someone and offered somewhere, now it's the same sh** as with an iPhone or an Android phone)
- No direct USB-sync, which means you have to send your private information to the cloud in order to sync
- No "real" support for SD-Cards (and getting more storage space is the whole da** point here, otherwise I'm quite happy with my Charmer)
So, basically I thought about getting a second hand HTC Touch Pro II running WM 6.5 AND supporting NORMAL SDHC cards (meaning ALL cards which comply with the standard, not just the ones "certified by Microsoft").
But there might be one killer feature which could make me, well, not really forget, but maybe turn a blind eye to WP7's SHAMEFUL flaws: The new Microsoft Office Mobile. Often, I have some Excel spreadsheets which I need for work at different places. This is the only reason I have to take a laptop computer with me, apart from that my phone would be fine.
Office Mobile in WM 6.1 (or 6.5) couldn't display / make use of all the features the Desktop-Version offered (like extremely complicated formulae or spreadsheets and of course macros), and, moreover, after having worked on and saved an Office document on a phone, the features would even have been removed from the file in the conversion process, so the file was useless on the desktop as well.
Thus, I'm asking the following questions (which surprisingly haven't been answered on the net so far, or am I just too stupid to google it right?):
- Is the Office in WM 7 fully functional, meaning you can work on Excel sheets with the most complicated formulae and macros, or, asked more simple, can you do everything you can do with the Desktop version on your phone as well?
- If it doesn't offer everything the desktop versions offers, does it at least keep everything that was there in the original file after you change and save it on your phone? I mean, even if I can't use macros on the Windows Phone, it might still be helpful to open an .xls file on the phone, make a few changes (which don't require macros), save the file on the phone and after putting it back on a desktop computer having the file "unharmed" (meaning except for the small change I made on the phone everything else is as it was)?
Hopefully, I made my point clear enough, if not, I'm happy to answer questions on what it is exactly that I want to know. I think many users here already having a Windows phone will have tried working on Office documents on their phones and I hope those will share their experiences with me.
Many thanks for reading my post and even more thanks for answering.
Peter
Firstly,in terms of the functionalities of the excel,I don't think WP7 is suitable for you.
Furthermore,personally I prefer USB drag and drop the documents to my device,maybe you can call me old school.I just find the office useless for me since I don't have sharepoint,I don't want create a dropbox account just to upload my file to cloud and download it to my device again and I don't have a data plan.Therefore,until now, I still didn't use the office app once.
In your situation,I think you need an android phone to handle your job this moment,you can just purchase quick office,docs to go,depends on your personal preference.In addition,the only office app available is just microsoft office,no other choices.furthermore,as you said,you want transfer it back to your desktop unharm,therefore it is good to have drag and drop file transfer function rather than rely on dropbox,upload to the cloud and download on your desktop again.
On the other hand,there is no clear information about the mango updates which add more features to the office.So,I'll would suggest you to go with Android or iOS for this moment.
Thank you for the answer.
No more "free" apps (by which I mean apps programmed by someone and offered somewhere, now it's the same sh** as with an iPhone or an Android phone)
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Free, in cost, there are plenty. Free as in not first checked by MS, kinda but no. You can developer unlock your device and sideload apps. However, that being said, MS are pretty good, they're only blocking apps which don't meet quality control standards (which I think is a good thing) or, somewhat contentiously, are "adult". They're not playing the same game as Apple.
I'm confused by you saying Android though. You can easily download and install programs (apk) on your device from any source (you just have to choose that option in the settings).
Office in Mango is improving - specifically:
1. Better support for formulae
2. Skydrive sync
So, yes, formulae can be created and manipulated in Excel, though I wouldn't say it's a replacement for the real Excel. It certainly can't run macros.
Skydrive is still "in the cloud" however, you're automatically registered to the free account by the virtue of having a live id. I still believe we should have USB file transfer but at least this is better than nothing.
Casey
Hi, we're currently working on a project where we would fly an UAV above some hills, and country side, and look for people in trouble, then call the "base" with the GPS coordinates, snapshot, and a couple of other info.
And since it's a university project, we need to keep the costs down. Hence why the following question.
Do you guys thing it would be possible to use an Android phone as a sort of "relay", where we would send a photo from a DSLR, get the phone to record a GPS coordinate as it receives the photo, and then send all of the data through a 3G connection every, say 1, or 2 seconds ?
Sounds like a simple thing, reasonably cheap (certainly in comparison to the other available options, such as sending data through a satelite, or a relay on the ground, or even more expensive - developing the whole system on our own)
This is only a simplified info on the project we are working on. The whole thing is a bit more complicated, but this is what we want to know from the Android side of things. Is this possible?
If so, has anyone already done that?a
Would we need rooting for that?
And possibly, what phone/tablet would we need for this?
Hi all,
First post here - looking forward to participating and working hard towards competency in Android development!
In the short time that I've been at this, I've noticed a great emphasis put on the importance of building a layout that will work across a range of Android hardware, or at least work well with both phones and tablets.
From what I've seen so far, the way to deal with this challenge is to compromise, and to not use absolute sizing for views etc..
I'm wondering if there is any kind of API available that would make it possible to detect hardware (at least screen size?) upon start up, which would then allow for switching to the appropriate XML layout?
I've not encountered it in any of the tutorials I've seen so far....
If this API *doesn't* exist, I would guess that the fact that the apps run on a VM might make any kind of hardware detection problematic if not impossible....
I'd appreciate any enlightenment on this that I can get!
Thanks in advance!
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Hi all,
First post here - looking forward to participating and working hard towards competency in Android development!
In the short time that I've been at this, I've noticed a great emphasis put on the importance of building a layout that will work across a range of Android hardware, or at least work well with both phones and tablets.
From what I've seen so far, the way to deal with this challenge is to compromise, and to not use absolute sizing for views etc..
I'm wondering if there is any kind of API available that would make it possible to detect hardware (at least screen size?) upon start up, which would then allow for switching to the appropriate XML layout?
I've not encountered it in any of the tutorials I've seen so far....
If this API *doesn't* exist, I would guess that the fact that the apps run on a VM might make any kind of hardware detection problematic if not impossible....
I'd appreciate any enlightenment on this that I can get!
Thanks in advance!
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Hello,
i am new to this forum and hope to post my question in the correct category.
I am looking for an Android Smartphone, which is able to detect NFC Tags on the frontside (display-side) of the device. All devices i tested can detect nfc tags on their back side, but not on the front side?
Does anyone know a device, which can read nfc tags presented on the display?
Background: I would like to use a android smartphone as time tracking device in our small company, where employees should identify themselves with an rfid tag presented on the display side of the smartphone and choose "Go" or "Leave" afterwards.
I hope, that someone can help me and thank you all for your efforts!
Best regards,
Michael