What would be a typical Android phone for B4A development?

[IanMc]

What would be a typical Android phone for B4A development?

The phone I was using is not very well the screen digitizer has stopped working.

I may have to get a new phone, I was wondering what would be a typical device to get, good for B4A dev?

Not necessarily the newest, I do like a big screen but I'll take what I can get

Thanks in advance for your input.

 

[Erel]

Almost all phones / tablets are good options for development.

 

[IanMc]

Hehe :icon_clap:

got it working again

Just as well as I'm totally in love with my HTC HD2.

I've had it for a few years now and I run the MIUI ROM (Gingerbread) directly off the SD card.

After reading lots of info, reflashing WinMobile 6.5, various hard resets etc. etc. one of the guys on one of the forums said he 'double-tapped' the 'end' key ... so I tried that, two quick presses in succession of the end key (the hangup key) and there it was. Working perfectly now but after all that reading I have read that lots of people got it going again only to have it fail again.

Still we'll see.

One of the plus points about running the OS directly from the SD card (apart from you can run several different versions) is that when I booted it up again, there was all my stuff, just as I left it

Did I mention that I love my HD2

P.S. I read where one guy got it going by 'baking' it in an oven.... some other guy tried it, said he still couldn't get it going and now the screen has turned a funny colour. Shouldn't laugh....

 

[moster67]

My HD2 is still running and is still my preferred developer-phone. Occasionally I need to maintain an app written in Basic4PPC for Windows Mobile - well, I just reflash the HD2 to WinMo and I have a fully working Windows Mobile phone again. Then I revert it back to Android again

Before you ask: - No, I won't sell my HD2 to you if this struck your mind

Ps: although I truly hope your problem with your HD2 was just a temporary glitch.

 

[IanMc]

Well fingers crossed, it's working perfectly again.

I'm not sure if its a good idea to take your phones outside in the cold folks.

An electronic device going directly from a warm environment to a cold one will develop condensation inside and that's not good for phones

Moster, mine boots up into Win Mobile (phone) 6.5 then I use file manager to go into my Android folder on my SD card and I run clrcad and then haret in quick succession and it boots up into gingerbread. I could have lots of versions like this, i do have another one but its sloooowwwww..

This one, everything works! TTS and everything, haven't found anything that doesn't work yet.

Got up today intending to work on my Android app, ended up hard resetting, taking the battery out a million times, researching on the web and re-flashing windows mobile ROMs .... typical day then

 

[HotShoe]

I have found that friends and family are a great source for Android devices. As they upgrade equipment, they offer me the old device. It has no service of course, but that doesn't stop it from being a working Android phone or tablet.

Thus I have 7 phones and 3 tablets that I use to test layouts, and apps on before releasing them. I always offer to pay or trade for the device, but so far all have refused that offer. You do have to ask though, until folks understand that you need them for testing your creations.

--- Jem

 

[IanMc]

Wow HS, you must have some really good experience with different devices.

What would you say is the most finicky of them?

 

[susu]

I bought for myself a phone with 480x800 screen, for my wife another one with 320x480 screen and my daughter a phone with 240x320 screen. Then I bought for us 2 tablets: one 7 inch screen and one 10 inch screen. I also bought an Android stick that I can plug in to TV to have "a very big" Android device. So basically, I can test my app on all screen sizes.

 

[latch]

I bought a phone with a cracked screen $18(HTC eris I replaced the digitizer) and a Kyocera Milano with a bad ESN 6$ on ebay, a china cheapie tablet for $30(Pandigital after coupon)

My everyday phone is an HTC Evo 4g, and my wife has a Transformer Prime and I have an MK808 and Bluestacks installed on two of my computer- the only emulator I use.

I also port my apps to BlackBerry and test them on one of my two PlayBooks and my Dev Alpha B which BlackBerry gave me.

 

[Informatix]

The best combination for me would be: a very high resolution, a low max heap size and an old and slow CPU (single core of course). A first device with Gingerbread, a second with ICS and a third with JellyBean. And a fourth device with a low resolution (e.g.480x320).

 

[IanMc]

Can you all please test my app.

It's a bluetooth interface for micro controllers with a bluetooth serial module but you can have a lot of fun with it without bluetooth as you can send text messages to it and have it do stuff.

If you load it up on a phone and then send a text message to that phone like this:

Bti sfx2;screen1;say Hello how are you?;hide;sfx10;terminal;sfx1;hide;say still here.;toast still here

that's 93 characters of your 160 character text

The website is:

www.BTInterface.com

I'd appreciate people trying it on different devices, obviously you can only send texts to it if its on a phone but you might still get it to crash in new and exotic ways

Cheers

ian

 

[IanMc]

My first app launch

My first app launch

Just to let you know that although the main theme of the app is to control micro controller devices over a serial bluetooth connection.

You can have a lot of fun with BTInterface with just the app as you can send it text messages to make it speak, play sound effects, popup toast messages etc.

Here's the link to it on Google Play Store:

BTInterface