Apologies if this is in the wrong section.
It's great having the ability to organize App shortcuts on into different folders on the home screens. However, when you want to do this with many Apps, it becomes quite time consuming, especially if you own multiple devices. Same goes for when you wipe a device.
Not sure if it exists, but does anyone know of an app that will allow app folder organization that syncs to different devices, or have a similar functionality? So for example if I have a few folders that contain various apps, I would love to be able to 'push' that type of home screen folder organization to different devices. As is, with owning 3+ android devices, wiping some once a year, getting new devices, etc, the task of organizing dozens of apps into folders becomes quite a chore!
Please Ignore, moving this to the QnA thread, posted in the wrong place.
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hi fellow dev's,
i would like to recommend an app which made my life so easier.
Data sharing simplified: Drag or throw any data to other devices
Share your pictures, music, contacts, bookmarks, messages and arbitrary files with simple gestures like dragging or throw n' catch to near by recipients. No setup, no user accounts!
Instantly transmit things between your phone and other Androids, iPhones or our Web App at http://webapp.hoccer.com. There is also http://wall.hoccer.com which will show all pictures you throw at this website.
It feels like NFC connectivity but does not require special hardware. Any kind of internet connection is sufficient.
The technology behind Hoccer is called Linccer and can seamlessly be embedded in other Apps to enable spontaneous connections between near by devices.
Happy sharing..
market link is here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.artcom.hoccer&hl=en
Wrong forum. Should be on "Android apps and games", this isn't specific for the SGS2.
Hi! (sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread)
I’m currently in the process of re-organizing my digital life. This means re-installing, upgrading all hardware, OS and such. Sorting, backing up and cataloging al my data on many disks. And right now I’m trying to organize my bookmarks.
I’m interested in what method you might use when organizing and maintain your bookmarks/web links. I use Firefox and Chrome, but have thousands of bookmarks from the past many years. I have made many attempts to organize them into folders and then have said folders placed on my bookmark bars as a sort of “bin” system but this would take too long manually using any browsers built-in bookmark manager. Ideally I would have my browsers bookmark bar lined with folders, organized by type (CG, Coding, Design, Photography, Outdoors, Science) and then inside the folders have sub-folders like under “Science” would be “Chemistry, Physics, etc..) and those sub-folders would then contain the web links themselves.
I have tried several of the bookmark management services like Diigo and such, and would love to have some sort of sync backup/management tool. It would be great if there was a windows application or web app that could import my bookmark library and give me a nice interface to organize them all manually and maybe offer some tools for batch methods and the like. So, what do you use? Any recommendations for software? Any good web services out there for this? Again, I have thousands of bookmarks, so anything that could make manually organizing easier would be great!
Many thanks!
-Tyler D.
Perhaps you purchased your
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1
Access a hidden menu
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both spies and perhaps your
children out of your secret
ploys.
2
Easy Phone Sync
If you think of Apple’s iOS and
Google’s Android system as
mortal enemies, consider the
Easy Phone Sync a skilled
mediator between the two. If
your desktop has iTunes and you
want those songs on your
Android phone, download the
Easy Phone Sync so the systems
can talk to one another and
share data.
3
Near Field Communication
If your Android has Near Field
Communication (NFC)
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phone to swipe a “tag” you
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Swiping the tag will tell the
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Swype keyboard
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Widgets
We love widgets. Mostly, we
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6
Control phone from
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The AirDroid app is amazing. It
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7
Talk to text
Please don’t be the person that
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8
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Consider the Dropbox app as a
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9
Get organized
As of April 2013, the Android
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The Android operating system
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10
Use Maps offline
Nothing
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which one is the trick part?
all i get throu the text is just explanation about the app
but i guess it might help for noob thou,
Are there any sites dedicated specifically for artists on a mobile platform (either IOS or android). Im a long time sketcher but decided to move onto digital medium in the hope that it would improve my options in colouring and painting images. I'm slowly getting used to sketching on my note but was hoping to find tips and guides on drawing on a tablet computer. Most of my searches have given me results on PC/ MAC and wacom stylus using photoshop.
I've started to put together a spreadsheet with a list of all the apps available on android and what their functionality and limitations are. various layer options. resolution. tools etc etc. I'll be uploading it to google docs this evening and sharing it in the hope that I can get others to help me populate it. I've bought a fair few apps now and have been disapointed once I realised it cant do x, y or z. Plus its difficult to keep track of updates that include new features. I'm hoping this table will allow me (and others) to build a suite of apps that best cover their personal requirements and stremeline their workflow.
I cant find any site that is aimed specifically at artists on a mobile platform. Can anyone advise of any? All I see is the odd subforum here or there.
I'm thinking of starting a new site specifically aimed at artists on a mobile platform with links to various resources, reviews on apps, a forum specifically for art related discusion etc etc...
would anyone be interested in helping me? I dont have any experience in putting together sites and am currently looking at a free one on webs.com or something.
One of the things I want to acheive is a comparison chart between all the drawing apps available on android and some more detail behind them other than whats on the play store (like in the attachment).
I think if I could take the code of an android app and rename/repackage it into many different apps, such as coolapp1, coolapp2, and so on, it would be convenient for me, as I could run all these simultaneously in my device. This might be an open source facebook app but for different accounts, a water intake tracker app that I could use to track my tea intake in a different instance of the app, and so on. One significant use for this cloning would be me using multiple copies of a browser such as bromite/brave/vanilla chromium. My browsing is sort of messy and I want to separate work, research, gaming, social media, different accounts etc. in different browser apps, but that means I end up with tons of different browsers in my device with different interfaces and their beta/dev etc. versions.
Though I figured taking the codebase of an app and renaming/repackaging it shouldn't be that hard, I don't know where to start or if this process would vary significantly from app to app. I kind of have this faint idea that there's some package name to be specified in java and also the code needs to be built and then signed with a key. Is repackaging a browser such as bromite/brave/vanilla chromium that hard, so I could end up with mybrowser1, mybrowser2,....,mybrowser10 and so on with the app logos I set?
I'm also afraid that this renaming, if done improperly, might break some reference in code, and consequently break some functionality, such as losing all my bookmarks in mybrowser1 after I close the app!
Thanks in advance. I have looked all over for a resolution to my query but have come up with none.
My POV: What you intend to do is 100% copyright infringement: open-source does not mean no copyright exists
I'll use the copies just for myself, not distribute those. There are some apps I've read about such as Shelter and Insular that use work profiles to do that, and there are also non-free apps that can modify an apk on the phone to make multiple copies.
But I'm not sure they are the most reliable and/or convenient way to go about it... I haven't used shelter or insular, and have read it won't be exactly like opening the app drawer and using a different app...