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Viewing Local SQL Server Database

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Good afternoon peeps, I'm wondering if you can assist me.

I am currently residing in the beginners area of Android Development but because i'm not sure what question to ask to get the answer I need, I am hoping someone can shed some light or point me in the right direction at least.

I am going to be using a dedicated barcode scanner and this barcode scanner uses a datawedge to get information to any app within a set profile. That bit is ok, but the development of said app is something else.

Ideally I want the app to scan a barcode which will contain several fields of information, basically the following:

TimeStamp (date and time of barcode scan), JobRef (numbers), DueDate (Date), Urgent (yes or no), Department, (listpicker) and maybe a couple of others.

I want the app to send the details to an awaiting table on our on-premise SQL Server database which I have full access to (for development purposes and messing about).

I'm not sure how to go about this, is there a service that needs to run on the server so that it listens for updates? or can I force an additional record in a table on the database by having the app work with it directly?

Kindest regards

Craig
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New Terminator movie, and other warmed over stuff

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49042774

A Top Gun sequel is in the works. I guess Tom Cruise can still pull that one off. Article also mentions a new Terminator movie, pitched as a sequel to the first two.
What do you reckon?
I'm not so sure about that. I mean Arnie is well past his sell by date, and I'm surprised Linda Hamilton has been tempted out of retirement for this one. Terminator franchise has got progressively worse, like the slaughter of Alien movies.
To me it's just another indication that Hollywood has run out of ideas. More warmed over movie franchises. Meh!
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Hacked phoned

J
My phone is being hacked into and my phone called are being monitored. Yesterday i was on my way to the courthouse to do emergency custody for my son to file a 51a and magically at Walmart all my services including 911 was disabled.
During the night time I reviewed my monitoring history and my websites being accessed phone calls are being made I found my old phone had been registered on July 2nd and it was stolen when I arrived at a shelter on 6/28. I believe I know who it is physically cuz I can hear them sometimes in the background of the call like I sounds like my dad or something like laughing but I can't say for sure it's him although I do have an APN number of tmus as well as an identification access point that I found in my phone. Please help how do I fix this!
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Streaming data over Wifi

Nick4903
Hello,

I am new in this forum, and also new in android programming. What I want to ask is whether there is an app that transfers/streams data (I am interested in images that I capture from my camera and videos) instantly at the time that are generated and stored in my android phone, to an end device, such as a laptop/PC wirelessly using a protocol appropriate for this job (ex. WiFi, bluetooth)??

Thank you...
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Why chromium's crash reporter has been removed from AOSP

DivyaBurgose
I am trying to port chromium's crash reporter onto Android. Observed Android -N codebase has chromium's crash reporter code(https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/refs/heads/nougat-dev/crash_reporter/), but I have seen that it has been removed from Oreo onwards.
Can anyone tell what could be the reason to remove crash reporter from AOSP Oreo source onwards?
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Permission for "Storage"

V
Hello!
I am eager to learn about the topic.
What if I grant an android app a permission to "storage", what actually becomes accessible?

a) just a specific folder for this one app to use
b) also your personal files (a-la downloads, music, pictures, documents...)
c) also files of other apps
d) also system files
e) another group of files / folders
?

I would be thankful for your take on this.
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West Coaster Rom & Kernel

Eric Harper
With the release of the S10 that will drop, Rooting will become what I think a "IN" thing again for a while. Im not sure if you guys have heard but to fast charge the 10 series will require a fee. WTF is that about? Anyway I have been working on a few device variations of a Rom and Kernel. So far personal testing is going very well. I believe I will call it the West Coast Series. I will have downloadable files in 2 days time when my work schedule lightens a bit. Devices that will be ready, Google Pixel XL, Google Pixel, Samsung S series models and the Galaxy Tab A. If anyone would like to help me Beta and provide feedback I would greatly appreciate it. Cheers
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Bomber Duck

BlackDevilTW
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The duck wanted to steal an egg from other birds in order to sell them. And with money to buy games!
But the birds have bombs and throw them into the duck!
Help the duck to escape of the bombs and to collect Moneds for buying the games!

Game Features:
✅ Many Levels
✅ Cool Gameplay
✅ Funny sounds

DOWNLOAD: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details…

#duck, #bomb, #birds, #angry, #arcada, #game, #android, #free, #blackdevil,


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Apps How to start Chronometer using DialogFragment

Chang Broot
How to start a Chronometer when a DialogFragment is clicked (its OK button)? I have something like the following, but it gives null object reference error. I want the timer to start only after the user clicks the ok button in the dialogFragment.
Java: 
public class A extends AppCompatActivity {
private Chronometer mChronometer;
@Override
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       setContentView(R.layout.activity);
       mChronometer = findViewById(R.id.chronometer);
       mChronometer.setBase(SystemClock.elapsedRealtime());
}
public void startTimer(){
  // This method is start using Fragment.
   mChronometer.start();
}
}
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Apps Google vision API: tune textBlock detection

B
Hello, I am writing an app which require some OCR from the camera. I am currently using google vision API as it seems to be the best option so I'm writing this question with that library in mind, but maybe I could use another API.

One of my goal is to get text from a paper like this one :



When the camera is correctly focused on the paper, I wanted to get only one text block with seven lines. From this seven string of text I'll be able to extract the data I need.

My issue is that I never get only one text block, it look like the space between each column is too big and I got 3 or sometimes 4 text block, from which I can't correctly extract the full lines.

The only workaround that I have in mind now is to break the textBlock up to the 'word' element and with the positions information of each word element I may be able to build back each lines. But this seems like a lot of work.

Is there any way to changes the parameters of the google vision API such that I can 'increase' the white space before it become another textBlock ? Or any other tuning that could make it work as I wanted ? Maybe using the black lines or whatever. Note that there is always 7 lines on the paper, starting with always the same letters as in my pictures. There maybe one or two columns with hours in each lines, or none like in the last line of my picture.

Thanks !
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Pie update

daffyducknj
Just received mine OTA a few days ago. I won't say it's like buying a brand new phone, but it's close. I'm glad I waited for it this time around. I've had no app crashes so far, and using the battery saver doesn't slow down the phone as much as it did in Oreo.

I might be in the minority on this, but the battery life is much better for me. It's nearly as good as when I bought the phone last year, in July. Battery life was dipping for a while; before the update, I was getting about 6-7 hours under heavy use. Now it's back to about 8 or 9, which makes sense as I do run quite a few social media and news apps on the phone. If I use it less (and switch off some of the apps for a while), the phone has about 16-24 hours of power, sometimes longer if I use the battery saver. Not bad. I was considering going the DIY route for a new battery, or taking it to a repair shop for that.

If you don't need the latest features or 64 bit compatibility for apps, I can recommend this phone if you buy it unlocked and update it to Pie/9.0.
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@tagging on Facebook pages

C
I use a sprint galaxy s9 for posting to facebook.

Until a few days ago, on my business page I could tag other pages, using @Name.

Now I can't.

Still can tag on my PC.

I tried installing the pages app, but same issue.
Then I tried FB lite. Nope.
Then I tried the mobile web version. And this is weird - I can tag individuals, but not business pages.
I tried tagging some of my others pages who have liked the page - no joy.

I posted the problem with fb.
And I searched fb community & googled - no hits.

Anyone else having this problem?

I fear it was a fb update on phone.
Wish I could disable these updates or roll back to an earlier version.
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Exporting my key as a PEM file

Greum
I'm trying to reset my upload key. Google's instructions say:

2. Export the certificate for that key to PEM format:

keytool -export -rfc -alias upload -file upload_certificate.pem -keystore keystore.jks

After several attempts I have managed to locate keytool.exe and I changed the command to use my .jks file. Having eventually got the password correct I now get the following error:

keytool error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: upload_certificate.pem (Access is denied)

Can anyone help please? I am running out of hair to tear out!
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