Tim Hoeck's Android Blog

DiigoBookmarks and EventGhost updated for Tablets

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:16:34 +0000

DiigoBookmarks and EventGhost have been updated for tablet support. If you run into any issues, let me know!

EventGhost for Android.. where are you?

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:58:08 +0000

I have been busy on many things for a while, but I have finally got back to working on my EventGhost for Android app. So many things needed fixing. The app itself is already confusing enough if you are new to EventGhost, so I decided I needed to clean up the UI and terminology. In addition, I have finally added some of the features that have been missing all this time…

It’s not quite finished, but here’s a sneak peek:

Diigo Bookmarks now available

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:54:45 +0000

Diigo Bookmarks is now available in the Android Market! View and manage your Diigo social bookmarks from a native Android app.

You can check out more about it on the Diigo Bookmarks page.

Minimal Emulator Skins

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:18:32 +0000

The emulator skins SUCK. Yeah, I originally wanted the cool looking skins (like my Nexus One skin), but then after you develop for a while, they just frustrate you. They waste screen real estate – with a keyboard that, let’s face it.. you don’t need, and those pretty (useless) borders. They also happen to have buttons on there that don’t even work (the camera and power buttons). I don’t need to see what the device looks like, I need to see what my APP will look like… that’s really all that matters.

Because of this, I created skin sets for QVGA, HVGA, WVGA800, and WVGA854 that I call ‘minimal’… they don’t have any of that crap you don’t need. They are based on the default emulator skins, with the useless bits ripped out.

Android Emulator Minimal Skins: minimal-skins-1.0.zip

Download the zip file and extract it to your /platforms folder. This is because I created the skins to match the platforms you will need them for.

You can see I can have many emulators open (I am using the -scale option to scale them to my screen). The skins cover the resolutions in portrait and landscape modes.

Nexus One Emulator Skin

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:28:51 +0000

Thought I would make my Nexus One Android emulator skin available for those who are interested.. just put the zip contents in /platforms/android-x.x/skins/nexusone

Download Nexus One Emulator Skin

TivoRemote 1.5 Released

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:51:54 +0000

I have uploaded TivoRemote 1.5 to the market. This release includes a number of fixes and enhancements:

Added: User Created Shortcuts with sharing capabilities
Added: Animations
Added: Upgrade notification
Added: Implemented ErrorReporter
Fixed: Uses image compression to prevent crashing when using logos (not complete)
Fixed: Crash on Channels if no Tivo configured
Fixed: Tivo does not have to be setup to access Tivo Mobile
Fixed: Aspect button was missing on Peanut Fitted

User Create Shortcuts – Downloading and Uploading

I am really excited about the ability to create your own shortcut codes, and share them with other TivoRemote users! Click the menu to create a new shortcut – give it a name, and for each button press, click ‘Add’ to add it to the code.

When you are finished, and the code works well, long-click the shortcut and choose ‘Share’. This will allow other users to download shortcuts you have created! Make sure to check out the ones available to download, too!

Channels – Gridview

I added the ability to create a channel list, including logos in the previous version. But I wanted to make it look a bit nicer, so I give you… Gridview Just hit ‘menu’ and select ‘Switch Layout’ on the channels page.

EventGhost for Android

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:47:29 +0000

I have submitted my app, EventGhost for Android, to the Android Developers Challenge. I have a few things I want to fix up, and I will release it to the Android Market.

What is EventGhost for Android?

EventGhost for Android is a companion application for the powerful automation tool, EventGhost. It acts as an Events Sender, allowing you to send events to your computer – as well as an Events Receiver, allowing you to receive events from EventGhost. What’s that mean?

The Sender part means you can create a bunch of layouts with icons, that act like a remote control for your computer.

The Receiver part allows you to receive events from EventGhost, and act on them through various actions, provided by plugins. This allows you to have your phone react to EventGhost events. The actions could be anything from loading a specific EventGhost layout, to starting an application, to sending a text message, and so on.

See more information about EventGhost for Android