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Wednesday, 30 March 2011 09:18 |
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Here's a tip for anyone involved in writing and distributing Android apps to others for testing. The usual way has been via a web server with the APK's available in a download area - then all you need to do is tell your testers to point their onboard browser to the URL. Note, if you do this it's essential you set the MIME type for .apk's (application/vnd.android.package-archive) or the browser won't launch the app installer on download. However, theres now a smarter way which has the benefit of not needing a server - use DropBox. Install it on your PC, place the .APK in a folder, get your testers to install the Android DropBox app and share that folder. They'll get a notice when you add the apps and they'll be able to just click it to install. Very cool...
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Written by Tick Tock
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Monday, 31 January 2011 00:00 |
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Voice actions are great. Speaking your commands directly to the computer has been the staple diet of sci-fi since way before Star Trek. So when it hit Android I was puzzled to find it all worked as expected apart from "Send text to..." and "Send email to...". The wierd thing was how it failed - it launched the browser with a perfect transcription of what you said in the search box. After more digging it turns out Settings | Voice Input & output settings | Voice recogniser settings | Language was set to English (UK), where it should be English (US). Why the heck changing this actually activates different functionality is beyond me, but it was a relief to find it.
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