Android Scene

You have two options if you would like to set the location on the emulator. For both options, you start with starting the emulator first.

Option 1: using DDMS

• go to your android/tools directory, and launch the DDMS tool
• select the Emulator Control Tab
• fill the Location Controls fields with the longitude and latitude values
• press the Send button

Option 2: using telnet

• open a command shell
• conect to the emulator with the command: telnet localhost <port>
• to enter a fixed location execute the command: geo fix <longitude> <latitude> [<altitude>]

For more information visit Location and Maps on the Android Developers page.

Many people were surprised that root was disabled on the production T-mobile G1’s, and everyone knew that we would eventually get root access, but who knew it’d be this easy?!? Some users at XDA-Developers and android-dls.com have discovered a simple hack to enable root access.

Here are the steps you can take:

1. Download and install a terminal emulator on your phone. (Click here for Term.apk)
2. Make sure your phone is not connected to your PC and open up the Terminal Emulator and run ‘telnetd’
3. Now telnet into your phone from your PC (run ‘netstat’ in the terminal emulator to get the phone’s IP)
4. In the telnet terminal you are now root!

5. (optional) To permanently enable root access you can create an “su” command in /system/bin ( Warning: creating su on your system could make you vulnerable to malicious software. You could name it something besides su, but you would still be vulnerable ):

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system cd /system/bin cat sh > su chmod 4755 su

Now you can fire up the Terminal Emulator and run “su” to be root.

It’s likely that the next system update will fix this hole, but until then enjoy having full access to everything on your phone!

Update: Term.apk updated to include launcher icon

Update #2: Some people were having issues installing the Term app, so I published it onto the Market as “Terminal Emulator” to make it a bit easier

Finally the ADC 2 winners are published on the official page of the challenge. There are 3 winners in each category, which include

Every winner application is absolutely amazing, but those may be of special interest, that were able to land in the overall winners. For example the application that automatically adjusts phone setting so that one can sleep without beeing disturbed, or the security application with which the phone can be controlled even remotely, or the real-time multiplayer drawing game.

It is also worth to mention, that the leading Windows Mobile software developer company has also won with its SPB TV application port.

For the complete list of winners visit the official announcement gallery.

Less than a week after the launch of the Google Nexus One handset, Google have released the Android 2.1 SDK to developers.

The 2.1 SDK includes all the new features we’ve seen in the Nexus One, including new APIs for animated wallpapers, webkit browser geolocation support, and more.

Hopefully it won’t be too long now before we start seeing the Android 2.1 update being pushed to the Droid, the Hero, and other Android handsets.

Just yesterday Motorola also confirmed that the 2.1 update would be made available for their European Motorola Milestone (Droid), and Motorola DEXT (CLIQ) handsets.

Last week Adobe released a demo video showing their Flash Player 10.1 software up and running on the Google Nexus One. Well this week it’s the turn of the popular Motorola Droid to receive the same Flash treatment.

In newly released footage, Adobe’s Adrian Ludwig showcases Flash Player 10.1 running well on the Droid with the Android 2.0 software.

When compared to the Nexus One and Android 2.1, the Droid’s Flash video playback does seem to stutter a little bit more than the N1, whether this is down to the 2.0 software remains to be seen.

Flash Player 10.1 is expected to be released for the Google Nexus One in the first half of 2010

Introduction

When you start a project with a service in it in debug mode, and you placed a breakpoint in a method of the service, the debugger will not stop.