Posts tagged App Updates
How to try out Android 3.0 – Honeycomb!
Jan 27th
Earlier, I wrote a post on how you can try out the new Android Gingerbread (2.3), and now its Honeycombs turn!
This process is very similar to the one regarding the Gingerbread, so I suggest you skim through that post.
You can read more about whats new in Honeycom here. And here is more about the Honeycomb preview SDK itself.
First, we need to open our Android SDK and AVD manager, and install the new Honeycomb packages:
1. Go to Available packages and Select Android SDK Tools and SDK platform Android Honeycomb Preview.
2. When they are downloaded and finished installing, restart your SDK and AVD Manager.
3. Go to Available devices and hit New to create the new AVD for Honeycomb.
4. Give your AVD a nice name, and select Honeycomb (3.0) from the dropdown list. Hit Create AVD.
5. Now select your AVD, and hit start.
Note: It takes some time to start the AVD, and for me, it was a very slow experience navigating around, but it gives a nice introduction to honeycomb.
I took some screenshots from my AVD:
Note: If you are using Eclipse, there is also a new update to the Eclipse ADT (version 9.0.0), so you should update. It seems they have fixed the XML formatting.
My AVD device started up in a horizontal orientation, if yours do that too, you can easily change the orientation of your Emulated device.
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Android: How to force check for updates to your phone
Jan 12th
If you want to force your Android phone to check for updates (ROM updates, not App updates which updates through Market), here is a little trick for you:
First, you could try checking for updates from the Settings menu -> About -> Updates
(May vary depending on your model).
If that did not work, you could try this trick:
Open your phones dialer, type *#*#2432546#*#*
(Or *#*#checkin#*#* if you like). Just as if you were going to call a number.
Your phone should now check for updates to your ROM.
Note: This does not work on every model though.
Please post in the comments if you succeed 
BF2Stats v2.0 Released as new app!
Dec 3rd
BF2Stats2 is a totally new and improved version of the old BF2Stats, Battlefield 2 stats app for Android.
Features:
- Improved in every way
- Search for playernames
- Add and remove your favourite players to your fav list
- Faster and more robust app
- Uses less data traffic
It was released as a new app in Market. (because I managed to loose my jarsigner crypt key)
So it means a fresh start!
Market URL: market://details?id=no.BF2.Stats2
BF2Stats Updates!
Nov 22nd
Lately I have been working a little on the BF2Stats app for Battlefield 2, When I have spare time, I am rewriting it from the ground up, and adding some nice requested features!
Whats the new features?
- Tabbed layout for overview and separation
- A favourite list, where you can add your Battlefield 2 players for easy access to statistics
- A better search function, which will display suggestions to your search if several similar player names are found
- Compare two players statistics
What else is new?
- The app uses less network traffic thanks to my webserver beeing a middleman, crunching the searcresults
- Doing most of the work on my server, the app gets to do less work
- Doing network traffic in a separate thread, does not block the responsiveness of the UI while doing a search or getting statistics data
Theres still work that needs to be done, but I will keep posting updates here on the site.
The new search now looks like this:
Note: Under development