Knowing things better

Apart from various api's that will be released in this version of android, there are a bunch of other  things that should intrigue you... In no particular order, here is the list.. 1. An uninstall manager Its been long time since we have cried and dreamt of having some easy looking interface to clean our device of those freaky, annoying apps that make our phone say.... Out of memory.. Well guess what, this version of android brings in what was needed. This uninstall manager would be a part of the playstore application. 2. Playstore revamping...V5.9 Playstore has been going under some massive changes to adapt itself to the marshmallow update. The officially signed apk is  available here , in case you need it . 3. Fingerprint is here... Api level 23 (Marshmallow)  will bring a new api for the fingerprint thus my expanding its horizons to a completely new ecosystem. 4. App linking Do you remember that dialog box asking yo...

  J ust as i was about to leave i was asked to complete my work.That work was actually this compilation , might sound similar to what my previous post was but trust me it wasn't. Okay bear with me,As i am gonna write this blog like a story and gonna tell the compilation process as i during it. In the beginning it was all so well and kept my fingers crossed while the source was downloading using the repo tool. NOTE: The step till lunch command you can follow as mentioned in my previous blog , but what changes is the way the "make" is done. The android build is accustomed so that it will result in few needed images (.img).But as i went through the blog of the guy who discussed about it said the AndroVM has a dependency ie:openGL which emulator won't be able to fulfill. So something struck me while i was building it that something other than emulator is required, then i came across the AndroVM player. So the question i asked was - Is it required in order to play...

So, This blogs marks my entry to the world of blogging.However late(as always :-) ) but ill try to make it worth everything. Google Playstore, it's the best thing to use on an android device,however that's missing on emulators. Here are few steps nice and easy to install it on emulator. Pre-requisites emulator :p android sdk tools. Its tested on android version 16  now time to write commands on the shell,write and execute them serially Gain access to the system drive    adb shell mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system Make it an exectuable    adb shell chmod 777 /system/app Install the apks You can also pull these apks from an actual device with api level 16 and push it back on the emulator as mentioned below,but here's a treat(apks are attached below). links to the apks GoogleServicesFramework.apk Phonesky.apk GoogleLoginService.apk adb push GoogleLoginService.apk  /system/app / ...