Adobe AIR?

droid13579 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:17:18 +0800

-Title mention above-

What does it used for?

Be Careful Where You Stick Your Camera!

droid13579 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:15:11 +0800

According to Kaspersky, seller of the $10 Kaspersky antivirus app for Android, Android viruses are getting worse. Well, not really worse, just different. The latest attack vector comes in the form of malicious QR Codes. When you scan a QR code, your phone turns those funky squares into a URL. Just like any other form of URL obfuscation (eg, shorteners), that URL can go to a naughty place. Said naughty place could give you a virus.

Oh, I'm sorry, are you used to a little more hyperbole in your Android virus stories? ZDNet can help with that: "Hackers using QR codes to push Android malware ... Once a user scans the QR code, the code redirects them to a site that will install a Trojan on their phones."

That's sounds scary, but lets go over the parts they left out.

1. Naughty QR Code starts a download of Virus.APK
2. You pull down the notification bar and click on the downloaded APK to install it
3. The APK presents it's list of (probably ridiculous) permissions
4. You ignore the permissions and click install
5. You now have a virus

If this sounds like something you just can't avoid doing, Kaspersky will be happy to take your 10 dollars.

Source: Kaspersky via ZDnet

Android: Technical Details for Creating Wallpaper

droid13579 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:16:47 +0800

After months I have work as a part-timer, I finally reward myself with a smartphone of the Android. One big advantage of Android is that the devices are fairly open, so a normal human can make their own wallpaper, ringtones, and software. (Well, Android is Open Source!)

I was astounded that, although there is lots of free wallpaper available, and there is even a video clips and tutorials in YouTube guiding us how to create a wallpaper. However, there's no simple text page that summarizes what one must do. In fact, there are a couple of tricky points in the process.

Please be advised this page assumes some level of technical background. Nothing that can't be filled in with some trips to a search engine and Wikipedia.

What is Wallpaper?

Wallpaper is the image shown behind the icons on the home screen. Search for "wallpaper" in Marketplace if you want to get pre-made ones. (Note: I'm talking about static wallpaper; Android 2.1 (Froyo) in Feb. 2010 introduced "live wallpaper" that is quite different.)

To make your own wallpaper, be aware that wallpaper is just a simple, fixed size raster image. The exact size depends on your device.

Problem is, what is my graphic display resolution of my smartphone?