QWORQS – A blog by Yazeed Almadaeen
This is just a summary of the tools you may or may not use for mobile development
Cross Platform
Android
iOS
This is an unstable post, I add comments here, then move them to their final destination on a separate post, posts are listed on the Dart/Flutter page, so it is completely normal for this post to be empty most of the time !
The reason I am interested in flutter is that it may just be the best option to accompany my RUST programs and fit them with relatively efficient front ends ! again, potentially the best fit FOR ME AND MY RUST PROJECT IDEAS
This phone is so old and low on storage space, that if it is left to connect to the internet, the storage fills up completely before you get the chance to disable updates !
I have moved to external storage before, but as you might expect, this would have been a great solution if i had slightly more space on the device itself (Original post here)
For development purposes, I would like this phone to have as low an android version as possible, and the lowest android version of LiniageOS itself is 6 (Marshmallow)
CyanogenMod, the name of LiniageOS before Nougat, but it overlaps with LiniageOS at Android version 6, although Android 5 on the phone would have been more useful for my development endeavors, I decided to go with Android 6 anyways. Which happens to be LiniageOS 13.
There is no shortage of file managers for android, both free and paid
The popular Paid file managers are
Free and open source
Free but not open source
2 pin connector TS (tip, sleeve)
3 pin connectors, TRS (tip, ring, sleeve)
4 pin connectors, TRRS (tip, ring, ring, sleeve)
Two standards exist for TRRS (4 Pin)
CTIA, which you can think of as apple, and i will call it apple throughout the post to help you focus on what matters, and OMTP, Which is everything else which i will call Android from here on.
For android (And almost any non apple device), the sleeve (Pin closest to the wire) is the ground, and the ring right above it would be the microphone… the other ring and the tip are the two speakers, right and left, In apple’s setup, the ground and microphone are switched together !
In a 3 pin connector (TRS), When it is meant to carry microphone signal, the tip is the microphone signal, the sleeve is still the ground, and the ring may carry any other signal such as a single speaker channel.
When it comes to MP3 players, there is definitely no shortage, but finding a good one is a task
Here are the most popular one, each with it’s advantages and disadvantages
Open source: github
Available on google play and F-Droid
Elegant, plays music files and does not do much more
Appears to be written in Kotlin
Open Source: Github
Available on Google Play and F-Droid
Elegant, plays music files and does not do much more
Appears to be written in Kotlin
I run windows in KVM, and the QEMU android Emulator that ships with Android studio crashes all the time, so the obvious solution, with all those android devices I have is to connect a phone to android studio, It is faster and spares me the hassle of finding out why nested virtualization is so terrible
But having a phone connected via USB is not optimal, as i have to pick it up every time i want to run my under development software on it !
The answer seems to be in the
1- install Android WiFi ADB : A plugin easy to install in Android studio
2- A phone with Android 11 and above
So let us do this step by step
Note: The Pairing port is not the same as the connection port ! so pay attention to that
VNC and RDP are great and all, and for so many purposes, they are the goto solution for remoting into a machine.
Now, another solution which is great (And much better if you have the bandwidth) is to broadcast your screen video and do all the work on the server rather than the client
The solution used to be nvidia’s game stream, which was abandoned by nvidia, the new solution based on nvidia would be the sunshine (Server) and moonlight client
The sunshine+moonlight duo work on almost every platform I need, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Even LG TVs running web OS… in short, it is a more universal solution. You can even create a virtual non existent monitor under linux and stream that to a different device !
So, let us start with the server (Sunshine)
Installing sunshine on debian is very easy as a .deb installation file is provided, sunshine is not yet in the debian repositories, but if i understand the license correctly, it can be some time in the future
Now, go to the sunshine website, and download the deb file., in my case, I visit this webpage, and download the sunshine-debian-bookworm-amd64.deb file
Now, from the command prompt, su (to run as root), then cd to the directory where your deb file resides, then “sudo apt install ./sunshine-debian-bookworm-amd64.deb”, We should now have the server running and waiting to be opened in the web browser, Now, on the command line , type “sunshine”
Point a web browser to https://localhost:47990/, ignore the problem with self signed certificates, and set your username and password
Now, your debian computer is running a sunshine server, go to any other machine where you want to install the client (moonlight) from here , and connect to your server by its IP address.
You are done !
Download sunshine on windows from the latest release (As of today, you will fine it here)
Install it like you would any other application, once done, the official help page will show up (this)
once you click finish, a page at https://localhost:47990/welcome will open, asking you to create a password, create one, the default username is sunshine, but you can use whatever you want (In my case, it is my default RDP password)
you are done, you can now access the windows PC from any device with moonlight
you can download moonlight ether from github (Here) or from the official website (https://moonlight-stream.org/),
To begin with, the links here are Amazon associate links, what this means is that buying things using those links will result in a commission for me ! to recap. “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.”
What I am trying to do is to create a cover that allows me to switch between USB OTG devices easily at the workshop, so i created a 3D printed connector that fits with the following parts, the STL for that model will be provided once I use it and make sure it works, In addition to the pixel 6 pro, have made the 3D printed connector holder for the Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, Ulefone Power 5, Ulefone Armor 3,
The external camera also has a 3D printed case design which I will also share… the screen protector has nothing to do with the project, but i am getting it anyways because it is nice if you have screen protection at the workshop, the screen protection uses UV curing adhesive ! which may or may not ruin your oleophobic coating on your screen (remains to be seen)
Screen protector Here said to work best with the fingerprint sensor (Once you use the penny trick), and tough enough to stay put with those curved edges !
2 phone covers here (Shaded Spurce (Green) and Slate (Grey))
4 of USB C Magnetic Adapter here, 2 Elbow and 2 Flat Elbow
Google’s Air Buds (Pixel) are on sale for $99 (here) and the pro are discounted at $199 (Here), I personally like my ugreen with qualcom chipset, So i don’t think i will get the google ones any time soon, but they are here for ref.
Allowing Adoptable storage on the Samsung J5 20165 – J500H
There are a few tricks for this particular phone
1- We need to replace the recovery system with TWRP
Enable phone developer mode, then USB debugging and OEM override (Disable protection)
Download ODEN
Download the TWRP .TAR file for your device, for the Samsung J5 2016 (J500H), you should find i here
https://twrp.me/samsung/j53gxx.html
reboot your system into bootloader mode (Vol down, Home and power at the same time for 3 seconds to start the phone)
Open ODEN, chose the tar file for AP, and upload the TWRP
Now, don’t let the phone reboot into the system or it will overwrite the bootloader with the original one, instead
once the phone starts rebooting, hit, Volume UP and home button and power at the same time, and TWRP will patch the
system once it opens in recovery mode so that it won’t overwrite the new TWRP
Reboot system, and boot with Power, Home, And volume down button for bootloader change
From this point on, you can enter into TWRP with the Home, Vol UP and Power button combination at boot time
Now download the patch to enable adoptable storage and store it to the SD card (adoptable_storage_enabler_ashyx) from here https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-a/how-to/patch-adoptable-storage-enabler-t3507387
Start the recovery mode (TWRP mode)
Hit install and chose the file you have downloaded
That’s all you need
Now, next thing you will need to do is to format the SD card using the guide here
http://www.tech-g.com/2019/12/01/storing-whatsapp-video-and-photo-to-sd-card-with-no-compromise/