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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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Storage space running out

A
I have a Samsung S8 64GB internal and 183 GB available on my SD card.

I keep getting messages "Storage space running out" I have some big video files that were on my internal drive, I moved these to my SD card but it continues to count them as being on my internal storage. I can see them on my SD card but can't find them on my internal. It seems like the storage tool isn't picking up on the move. Anyone seen this before?
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Please Help me Make a Simple App

O
I want to make an app, which would alert me if I am driving by a certain place. Let's say, I need to go to Walmart, but do not want to drive there specifically. So, I would type the "Walmart" into the search field and the app would monitor my whereabouts and it a Walmart is within 1 mile it would notify me. Ideally, multiple places could be tracked.

I have minimal background in Android app development. I know some Java and can learn. I am looking for a an advice on how to approach this app project.
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Machine Learning Tool For Visually Impaired People

Scuffedbots
I'm possibly going blind in the next few years if my doctor is accurate ): so i thought the best thing to make is an app i might use and since this type of app doesn't exist for the majority of android phones (only Google's phones) i made this semi-useful thing where it detects objects and spells them out in English, French, or Arabic, it also imbeds a simple text detector with the ability to copy the captured text, i will definitely be updating it as i improve in machine learning here's the link on google play! have a test and i would love your opinions
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dab.scuffedbots
it is also open source on github.com/iseegr8tfuldeadppl/Laya
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Help Issue with synching with WMP

M
On my PC i store albums in different folders and the songs in the folders : Music/Album1, Music/Album2, .... All my songs have the required MP3tags : Album, Title, Albumartist, Artist. So, in principle the folderstructure is not required, but ok. I'm old fashion :) On my smartphone i have the same folder structure. Now, when i synch between PC (Windows Media Player) and smartphone i have a strange phenomena :
It often happens (and always for the same folders) that after synching on my smartphone an additional folder Music/Albumartist/Album1 is created and all the songs in there. The original folder Music/Album1 also exists. Remarkable is the fact that there is nothing to synch in that folder
How is this possible
Kind regards
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