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Intel's super fast Android emulator has ended the most painful part of Android app development - testing apps on super slow emulators. Intel's Android image is even faster than a real device. To fully take advantage of the emulator, the following steps should be taken:…

Google Play. Amazon (10% of Google Play downloads). Catappult to Aptoide, Meizu, Softonic, Transsion, Apptoko, Gionee, Cherry mobile, Multilaser. Very slow in processing (weeks). It started to charge an annual fee of $79. Apkmirro. Very slow in response. F-Droid is for open source software, so it…

Google has made the use of its obfuscator R8 mandatory in lieu of PorGuard for code shrinking and obfuscation. It is a nightmare for many app developers because it obfuscates source line numbers. One significant advantage of Android apps over Windows apps is the ease…

Let's using uploading a video to YouTube as an example: Install Google API NuGet packages. This can be easily done in VS. Create a client ID at API Access pane Download client_secrets.json from API Access pane and save in the project. Make sure set the Build…

Google+ page is different from a regular Google+ profile though they are very similar. The privacy configruations are similar too. For example, if the followers of a Google+ page need to be invisible, it can be configured as following: Profile (left column) > About (top tab)…

Google is not the first search engine, probably not even among the first 5. It won the search engine war by 2000. The reason: it is simply generates better search results. Now, Google is winning the browser war. The reason: it is simply better -…

It is sad to the end of Google Health. It is a visionary project in the right direction, but it has not scaled as wished. I believe there are two reasons for this: Fortunately, Microsoft HealthVault is still live and kicking. Let it be one…

Starting a Business in the USA (posted in 2010 originally) If one plans to start a business in the USA, there are primarily five business entity forms to consider: sole proprietorship, limited liability corporation (LLC), limited liability partnership (LLP), S corporation, C corporation. Sole proprietorship requires the…

To add an OData service (i.e. WCF Data Service) reference with VS 2013, it is very straightforward: Right-click Service References > Add Service References... > enter the OData service address and namespace > Click OK. VS2013 will add all necessary references (e.g. Microsoft.Data.Edm. Portable, Microsoft.Data.OData. Portable, Microsoft.Data.Services.Client.Portable).

My virtual home has moved numerous times since it was originally built in 1995 when I was a graduate student at Cornell. It has been hosted by a number of hosting service providers, and has gone through equally numerous renovations. I always kept it simple, flexible,…

Only amateur athletes were allowed at the Olympic Games until the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Athletes from socialist countries such as the USSR, East Germany were effectively professionals because they made their living from their sports, but they were allowed to be categorized as amateur athletes.

Google developers: 3M. 80% of the top 1000 apps use Kotlin. 1.2 M apps use Kotlin. 3 billion Android devices. 84% of top 10K apps use Jetpack Jetpack Compose is for Kotlin only. 250 M active large screen devices. Chrome OS grew 92% in 2020…

我们决不要因现在的局面而悲观，我们完全赞成蒋介石先生在十月九日的演说，坚决打到底，一直打到最后一个人一根枪还要再打，这就是共产党“为保卫祖国流最后一滴血”的意思，是对目前时局的根本方针。（1937年11月1日 《目前的时局和方针） 当时是共产党、国民党和日本人三国鼎立，我们就是要让国民党和日本人来个你死我活，而我们从中发展壮大。一些同志认为日本占地越少越好，后来才统一认识：让日本多占地，才爱国。否则变成爱蒋介石的国了。(1959在庐山会议上痛斥当年发动给日军重创的百团大战的彭德怀) We should never be pessimistic due to the current situation. We completely agree with Mr. Chiang Kai-shek’s speech on October 9, and will fight to the end, to the last man and the last gun. This is what our communist party meant…

Originally published on Amazon.com. Firstly, I want to endorse the excellent review by Matthew G. Reinert. I have a bit stronger feeling about the imperfection of this book. Let's start with the title The Nationalist Era in China 1927-1949. Though it is technically accurate, but…

The current COVID-19 situation in India is serious, but far from dire. Its COVID mortality rate 1.2/million/day (as of April 21, 2021) is still one of the lowest in the world, less than half of that of the US. Since India is a major producer…

I have never taken a flu shot but was looking forward to the new mRNA Covid vaccine, and got one on 2021-04-10. The FEMA mass vaccination site at the Hynes Convention Center is very well run. It is staffed largely by the navy. Everything from the…

Books: Lore of Running by Timothy D. Noakes This book is certainly not a quick recipe. It takes time to digest the material. If you enjoy reading, it is a plus. I have read some section multiple times. Another very good running book that takes…

Apple developer enrollment: Submitted application at 10:00 and received immediate acknowledgment. Received a call from Apple to verify the business and its owner at 10:25. Received the email notification of acceptance, paid the annual fee and the enrollment was completed.

I could not help periodically watching the last hours of Gaddafi's authoritarian regime this evening, and sharing the joy of Libian people. This again shows the unstoppable force of the desire for freedom shared by all human beings, the power of truth that defeats regimes…

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an excellent technology for constructing and consuming web services. Though web services are complicated under the hood, MS Visual Studio (VS) makes both the construction and consumption of them very easy. All the tedious, non-business logic related work is done…