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Help! I think I found spyware!

Status update:
I have carefully followed the expert advice of everyone in this forum and it has brought me to a new realization. I ran the 2 files I discovered in my Google Docs through the website to which svim directed me and within seconds they were both determined to be without spyware or malware. (So why were they planted there??)
I have been barking up the wrong tree! My phone is not, in fact, the target as MB or svim (forgive me, I can't see the conversation from this screen) said earlier in the forum. After following everyone's advice I realized that it was my Google account that may have been compromised. So, I went on YouTube an researched what to do. After going into the 'Sign In and Security' section I was able to see what devices had been signed in to my Google account over the past week. Two of those devices I didn't recognize. So I found the IP #s of those 2 devices, one of which was a Google 'switch' and plugged them into a program that geographically pinpoints devices based on their IPs. (It might be called 'Checkpoint' but I'd have to backtrack to be sure. I found many after searching for 'IP Geography') That's when I recognized that someone I know is right now traveling the same area as the switcher. PA, DC, and Tampa. So that took my ex out of the equation.
Upon gaining that knowledge, I went in to change my Google PW once Again when I noticed the option to access other accounts tied to my personal account. It was then that I discovered a 'Brand' account attached. I have never heard of such a thing, but I could not access the account. However, the security question specifically named one of the 2 people who are making that particular road trip as we speak.
The security question is 'where did you meet _______________'(one of their names), but the name is spelled incorrectly so I can't know for sure which one got into my account.

All that being said, I still have so many questions. Especially motivation!

Nevertheless, I am going to continue following the precise directions or my new and highly respected friends here at the Android Forum until I feel the last little possible bug is cleared from my entire system of communications!!

I am mentally EXHAUSTED, but well on my way to redemption thanks to all of You!!

Much Appreciation!!!

KaTastrophy92

Offline fm radio tuner app that allows recording

I am going to change phones and it seems some other phones have a radio app but only samsung has that radio app that allows recording of live radio.
Motorola phones also come with FM radio apps that can record live radio. I must say that Moto's FM radio app is the best I've used. It has a nice array of features, including light and dark themes.

Help Can't respond to group texts.

I am having the same issue on my Galaxy Note 9. I can't respond to group texts, but if I enter everyone's name as if I'm starting a new text it does send the message and it shows up in the thread with other messages from that group...so I guess you would say I actually can respond, but not without reentering everybody's name... I can't just type in a message and hit send. My message just turns grey and shows an explanation mark next to it.

ARcore - is it possible to make AR APP using powerful phone that is not listed in google officially

Hi guys


I have a question related to google ARcore supported Phones.

I have a Xiaomi K20 pro phone that has powerful specs to handle ARcore but it isn’t listed in google “ARCore supported devices” list.


I want to know, is there anyone here who has experience with developing a AR APP with ARcore with Xiaomi K20 pro (or any other powerful phone that doesn’t listed in the ARcore supported device list)

and is it possible to do that or not?


PS, Xiaomi k20 pro specs are exactly the same as Xiaomi Mi9 ( Mi9 is supported but K20 isn't )


Cheers.

Spinner not getting populated with database records in android

Hi. I am using Yii2 REST API. I have a table called studentrecords consisting of Id,FirstName,LastName, Class fields. I have a API which returns the json array containing stiudent FirstName and LastName. API is working fine. Now I have a android code where I use a spinner to display student names from the database.
Java:
package com.example.anitaa.studentapplication;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Spinner;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class UpdateActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    Spinner spinner;
    ArrayAdapter adapter1;
    String url1 = "http://192.168.1.6/student/web/studentrecords/studentnames";

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate ( savedInstanceState );
        setContentView ( R.layout.activity_update );
        spinner = (Spinner) findViewById ( R.id.spinner1 );
        final List<String> list = new ArrayList<String> ();

        try {
            JSONArray jsonarray=new JSONArray(url1);
            for(int i=0;i<jsonarray.length();i++)
            {

                JSONObject jsonObject = jsonarray.getJSONObject ( i );
                list.add(jsonObject.getString ( "FirstName"));
                list.add( jsonObject.getString ("LastName"));
            }
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace ();
        }

        adapter1=new ArrayAdapter ( this,android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item,list );
       // adapter1.setDropDownViewResource ( android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item );
        spinner.setAdapter ( adapter1 );



    }
}

When I run it then spinner is not populated witth records. How to do?

Supports-Screens

Hey I have been learning about developing games for Andriod and I just wanted check some information becuase it's not 100% clear.

Firstly the bellow two links from the Andriod Developer website both show declaring support in a different way.

The first one:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/supports-screens-element.html#compat-mode

Code:
<supports-screens android:resizeable=["true"| "false"]
                  android:smallScreens=["true" | "false"]
                  android:normalScreens=["true" | "false"]
                  android:largeScreens=["true" | "false"]
                  android:xlargeScreens=["true" | "false"]
                  android:anyDensity=["true" | "false"]
                  android:requiresSmallestWidthDp="integer"
                  android:compatibleWidthLimitDp="integer"
                  android:largestWidthLimitDp="integer"/>

The second one:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/compatible-screens-element#screenSize

Code:
<compatible-screens>
        <!-- all small size screens -->
        <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="ldpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="mdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="hdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="xxhdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="xxxhdpi" />
        <!-- all normal size screens -->
        <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="ldpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="mdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="hdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="xxhdpi" />
        <screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="xxxhdpi" />
    </compatible-screens>

Is there any real difference between the two other than that the first dose not specify density?

Second I wanted to just make sure I understand what exactly constitutes as a Small, Normal, Large and xLarge screen.

Please correct me on this:
A Normal screen is a HVGA 480x320 pixels screen. This value is the baseline for that other screen sizes.

A Large screen would be 1.5x the normal baseline.

A XLarge screen would be 2x that baseline.

and so on...

Unable to read SIM data on Samsung A50

Just purchased a new Samsung Galaxy A50.
No issues with the phone other then listed below.
It is a dual SIM phone. With SIM 1 - AT&T, SIM 2 - SaskTel.
I cannot get any SIM Data to read. My old phone (Samsung Galaxy S8) can read both SIMs perfectly fine. So the problem doesn't appear to be the SIM cards themselves.

The phone is completely functional otherwise (can place calls, text, browse, or write on this forum)


What I am trying to accomplish is migrating RoboKiller to my A50. It gives an error (see image) and I cant get it to function.

What I have tried:
Turned off data
Turned off SIM 2 (and vise versa)
Restart
Cleared SIM data (in settings)
Used 3G Mobile network
With or without WiFi (even turned off)

Is there anything I am missing?

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Apps Android screen recording portion of app

I am creating a feature in an app in which the user can record their screen. So far, I've been semi-successful.

As a first pass, I tried recording screenshots then encoding them using JCodec. This worked, but the encoding was extremely slow on Android which made it unfeasible.

A second attempt was to use MediaRecorder but this records the whole screen, including the Android UI. The results are ugly and I haven't found a way to record only a portion of the screen using MediaRecorder.

So I'm looking for any alternative solutions or possibly a library that can crop video that isn't slow to process like JCodec. Any ideas?

Help Screen goes to sleep after 5 seconds

Have you tried restarting the phone? But could be a bug in the firmware though that Motorola needs to fix, because I had a very similar thing happen with an Oppo R11 once, the screen would go to sleep after 10 seconds regardless of settings, which was fixed with a subsequent OTA update
Yeah. Tried that. This has actually been ongoing for months. I really don't like this phone.

Is Poweramp hi res music player a relic to some, or do you favor Samsungs

I was never a Poweramp user. I've used Winamp through the years but it is no longer supported... at least I don't think it is. I stream SiriusXM so I don't really play my own tunes like I did in the past. I enjoy my own tunes but they were collected over a long span of time from many places. Some are so old that they are of lesser bit rate and they all have a problem of not being ripped at the same volume level. All that is eliminated with a streaming service but my library is larger than what they care to stream.

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