Samsung NPS version 1.5.1 A@w_2 available
Today I have run NPS after a long time. I have stopped hoping that my i7500 phone will get an update, so I don’t check for new versions anymore. However, I sometimes charge my phone over USB and that is when the NPS runs by itself. Of course, I check the Update icon just in case 
Today I was surprised (no, it was a new version of firmware, sorry) – the NPS offered a new version of NPS. That is something that never happened even when there were new versions available. The new version, according to the NPS, was NPS Full update 1.5.1 A@w_2. I can’t really decode what the name means, but it’s supposed to be fresher than the outdated version 1.4.0 IL2 that I had on one of the computers.
I tried to auto update it, so the program asked me if I want to close it down in order to install. I confirmed, the program closed down and nothing happened from here. I guess I will try to update in manually.
I am glad that there are new versions of NPS. At least I get a signal from Samsung that there are actually some people alive and working for our phones. I would love to see at least Android 1.6 if not 2.2 on my now outdated i7500 phone.
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Learning programming for Android
Since I own my Samsung Galaxy Android phone I use it a lot. I like the software and since I’m a software author as well, I have decided to try to develop my own application for Android. Actually, I just wanted too see how difficult it is to develop an Android application. I use to develop interesting utilities myself, but I knew that android uses java for development. And I don’t know java yet and haven’t used it yet. Nevertheless, I tried anyway.
The process was not easy, just to set up the working environment took quite some time. I had to install Android SDK, update it with the right version packages, create AVDs (Android virtual disk), install ant, learn how to use Android emulator, learn how to build an application, learn how to deploy an application, and last but not least, run the applciation in the emulator (fortunately I already knew how to make this last step because I was using the same OS on my phone). I succeeded running my first Android application – it was the Hello Android example from Android developers web site – so maybe I shouldn’t be calling the application mine
I have also managed to change the text strings and redeploy the application. Also, I have used a visual tool for building user interface for Android. It’s called DroidDraw, but all I could do was create a button, copy and paste it’s code to my working Hello example and run it. The automatic way didn’t work or I just didn’t figure it out. I still have to figure out how to add an action to a button, but I’m affraid this will require at least some basic java knowledge that I don’t yet have. I hope Pascal, Delphi, C, PHP, HTML, CSS, and javascript knowledge will help me.
Next I’ll order or download a book on Android development and try to find some time to dig into it and make something useful. Probably I’ll also install Eclipse for easier development.
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Skype 5.0 with Facebook integration
I’m sure you’ve already heard of the new Skype 5.0 that was released the previous week. The main ‘new’ feature for me (I’m not a heavy Skype user) is the integration with Facebook. By connecting Skype and Facebook you could call Facebook friends, send them SMS messages and view feeds in Skype. You could also post to your wall and more.
Of course, I have decided to try the new Skype. I downloaded it and noticed two things. First, that you need to register to download the program (the registration wasn’t needed for the last version I downloaded) and that for some reason my download page was in German. I installed the program and tied to test the Facebook integration. First, I’ve had some problems which weren’t solved by a few program restarts. Here’s what was wrong and how I managed to solve it.
When I clicked the Facebook tab, the text about the integration is displayed and a button to actually do it. I clicked the button, and the Facebook login form displayed. Here comes the first surprise – I couldn’t type into the form! It looked like the tab froze. I could select other tabs and they were working, but the new Facebook tab was dead. Later I found a solution: I had to maximize the Skype window and the form started to work. When it didn’t work again, I just restored the window and it worked again. Crazy, anyway.
I logged in, allowed Skype to access a lot of private information from Facebook, and have briefly tested the integration. I was mainly disappointed at the speed of it – the Internet Explorer that is run in Skype to show Facebook page has shown me warnings about an unresponsive script several times. My CPU usage spiked to over 70% at that time. When I confirmed the unresponsive script question, the CPU level was back to normal and the functionalities in Skype worked as supposed. Crazy, again.
Apart from this extremely bad user experience I didn’t find anything special about having Facebook in Skype. I clicked a few ‘Call’ and “SMS’ buttons in the peoples list but they all needed credit in order to really do something.
I removed Facebook integration with Skype less then 10 minutes from enabling it. I think I won’t miss it at least until the new, fixed version of Skype comes out.
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