Posts Tagged ‘ htc ’
First a short background. HTC Hero released with android 1.5. Google releases android 1.6 with TTS (text-to-speech) support. Andnav2 working fine since it uses external tts library. Author of Andnav2 (Nicolas) releases version compatible with android 1.6, but leaves all users of 1.5 devices out in the cold. The update was uploaded to marked with [ READ MORE ]
I had a little trouble getting the android emulator running on my laptop. I wanted to start debugging why andnav2 is no longer working. Hopefully Nicolas can get it fixed, but it appears that he’s quite busy The first problem I ran into was that the buttons in the tools/android application where not responding [ READ MORE ]
One of the more interesting aspects of the HTC Hero for me was the android market. As paid applications are not yet available in Denmark, this list only includes free (as in beer) apps: Locale: Brilliant and simple program to handle profiles automatically. Currently I just use it to have the phone silent when at work [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been strugling getting album art working properly with the music player included on the HTC Hero. Covers was only working for some albums. After a bit of googling and a few different tries, since there was a lot of misinformation on google about this problem, I finally figured out how it works. The player [ READ MORE ]
As I was researching the android platform before buying a HTC Hero, one of the things that really got me excited was the mappping/gps application andnav2. It’s a frontend for openstreetmap, that uses the open routing service to provide turn-by-turn, all for free. The only thing is that it requires is a internet connection for [ READ MORE ]
I recently aquired a HTC Hero phone. More on that later. First I just wanted to help out other poor souls out there, who are forced to use Windows to upgrade the software on the phone. There is a bug in the installer for the HTC Sync program which leads to the drivers not being [ READ MORE ]
I’m the founder of a small consultancy company with a strong focus on web applications. I’m also the founder of the community art site YayArt, that sells canvas and prints of digital art. My lovely girlfriends blog can be read here.
