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cthisbear
Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 4262 Location: Sydney Australia
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Posted: Sun 13 Oct 2013, 19:28 Post subject:
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" The internal drive is 4 GB, and Windows hardly fit on it, and Win XP
w SP3 did not fit."
Ah! these are the moments when typing up >> Windows Tiny7 Rev01.
Based on: Windows 7 Ultimate..cd size install.
and Tiny XP >> 99 mbs installed..by >> eXPerience
may have given you some joy.
Ahem!!! from what I have heard.
Chris.
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nubc

Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 1907 Location: USA
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Posted: Mon 14 Oct 2013, 02:29 Post subject:
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I tried the Calendar widget, and it placed itself on the Home page, and I tried vainly to remove it. Tried to force stop it from Settings, no joy. Finally asked around, and learned the trick, so typical of Google coders, convoluted and non-intuitive. You left click the icon and hold, until the word "Remove" appears, then drag the icon to the word, and release. This might make sense to a Mac user, but I am totally ignorant about Macs.
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jpeps
Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217
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Posted: Mon 14 Oct 2013, 03:55 Post subject:
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nubc wrote: | I tried the Calender widget, and it placed itself on the Home page, and I tried vainly to remove it. Tried to force stop it from Settings, no joy. Finally asked around, and learned the trick, so typical of Google coders, convoluted and non-intuitive. You left click the icon and hold, until the word "Remove" appears, then drag the icon to the word, and release. This might make sense to a Mac user, but I am totally ignorant about Macs. |
Don't forget, you're replicating a touch pad. It's standard procedure to hold an icon for an option menu to appear. Don't blame the tools.
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nubc

Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 1907 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue 15 Oct 2013, 23:36 Post subject:
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Android must be made for young people, I can't read the small print, even when I change the font to Large in Settings. I find myself constantly using a magnifying glass just to read text. Does the resident browser have an easily accessed setting like Seamonkey's (View > Zoom)? Would be nice to change font size from the browser, what the browser displays, and be able to quicky restore previous size. Oh, I see: tapping the page (touchpad) makes it larger or smaller. Alternately, two taps to make the page incrementally larger, then two taps to make it incrementally smaller.
I started the camera in a dark room, and the pointer (touchpad) froze. After a minute or so, I finally turned the light on, and then the eeePC spontaneously rebooted. The camera is apparently motion-activated and lack of motion (pitch black) causes a general freeze. I was trying to put the camera on an illuminated computer screen in the dark room.
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jpeps
Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217
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Posted: Wed 16 Oct 2013, 11:26 Post subject:
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nubc wrote: | Android must be made for young people, I can't read the small print, even when I change the font to Large in Settings |
Android uses pinch functions on the touchpad to zoom. That's probably not working yet on your linux adaptation.
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Wed 16 Oct 2013, 13:23 Post subject:
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Anyone who does NOT have or ever owned any Android (that is; xPhone or xTab or xTV) would benefit to stop at your local Department/Computer/Telco Cell store to have a demo.
What you may pay attention to is how they demonstrate touch use to you. (Most elderly people "completely miss" the understanding of the "BACK" button, thus leading to some frustration. There is ONLY back....not forward ability, per se.
But, if you get it, then all becomes apparent in how these systems work.
ALSO, there is NO mouse button 2 equivalent in 99% of all xBoxes; thus everything is single mousing.
Android, even x86, would benefit from the use of a touch monitor. Certainly, the camera on a laptop is a plus, too.
Remember, the system intends toward a fingertip management approach.
Lastly, ALL applications designed in Android are oriented around something occurring on a display where the started app will sit, "listening" for an event from the user. That event, even the back button, signals something to do.
Enjoy your Android experience....NOT as a Linux experience....but as a redesigned OS that gets its base from a Linux. Thus, its base design orients around screens and events on screen. It comes with a base set of applications ready to run on the Android operating system on whatever device(s) you run it on. If its from some vendor, say Samsung, it will deliver with the apps they decided to give you OOTB. The rest, you'll add as YOU see fit without any need for understand how to install or setup. Each app is self contained and IS NOT dependent on anything except the base system.
Hope this helps anyone in LInux who has not had a moment with an xDevice to get a simple start.
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Wed 16 Oct 2013, 13:41 Post subject:
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Most Android (and xSmart devices) has this:
- Wifi antenna
- Cell antenna
- Blue-tooth antenna
- GPS antenna
- NFC antenna
- Accelerometer (to determine which orientation you are holding your device)
- FM antenna
- Not to mention
- camera(s)
- touch screen
When you plan your Android use, do you see which of these your system may/may not have?
Don't know how far into the future it will occur, but Intel and AMD have experimented with x86 micro-boards which would "mirror" antennas, where an Android x86 has complete replicated functionality. Such a system would accommodate, fully, the Android x86 project. For now, it remains a proof of concept.
I believe that originally, some sort to have this distro as a development platform. But, the major system changes in Android from one-release to the next has caused issues with not just the OS, but also with App development. Newest 4.4 continues this problem as they deprecate or change support of features of application architecture causing issues with old programs.
Linux community developers are no stranger to this. In fact, all developers, no matter which OS, understand this and are often frustrated by this.
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 4989 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Wed 16 Oct 2013, 17:45 Post subject:
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Lenova will soon have a Android 4.2 laptop
http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/ideapad_a10_ug_english.pdf
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jpeps
Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217
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Posted: Wed 16 Oct 2013, 22:46 Post subject:
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gcmartin wrote: | I believe that originally, some sort to have this distro as a development platform. But, the major system changes in Android from one-release to the next has caused issues with not just the OS, but also with App development. Newest 4.4 continues this problem as they deprecate or change support of features of application architecture causing issues with old programs.
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Having automatic updates helps. When you search for apps, they will generally tell you if your devices are compatible
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L18L
Joined: 19 Jun 2010 Posts: 3431 Location: www.eussenheim.de/
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Posted: Thu 17 Oct 2013, 03:13 Post subject:
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nubc,
font size in terminal can be configured (click the 3 dots top right of screen)
android-4.3-x86
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jpeps
Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217
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Posted: Thu 17 Oct 2013, 03:17 Post subject:
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gcmartin wrote: |
What you may pay attention to is how they demonstrate touch use to you. (Most elderly people "completely miss" the understanding of the "BACK" button, thus leading to some frustration. There is ONLY back....not forward ability, per se. |
Since devices generally use only one screen (activity) at a time, the previous screen is usually dormant and can be brought to the front (made active) simply by closing out of the present screen. The developer has the option of closing previous activities when the new screen (activity) is loaded.
note: some devices, like the Samsung Note, have adopted the more familiar multi-windows approach, which will require writing apps in a different way.
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amigo
Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2641
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Posted: Thu 17 Oct 2013, 11:18 Post subject:
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Yes, 'normal' android is not multi-tasking. Only the top-most app is running, while ones below are 'cached'.
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Thu 17 Oct 2013, 11:28 Post subject:
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Thx
Quote: | ...(click the 3 dots top right of screen) | Yes, This item on screen BOTH in X86 (Android) and xPhone/xTab/xTV for version 4.3+ in known as the the "Overflow" button. This is available to developers to signal additional stuff not on-screen. Thus, users discover this as their use expands in Android 4.x+ implementations of applications. Expect that this is how future (at least for the near-term) applications will exhibit. Those applications not exhibiting this was developed by developers who are still unaware of how to implement it.
Quote: | ... Only the top-most app is running, while ones below are 'cached' | Yes. AND, Additional changes are afoot in the base OS. Noticed side by side implementation in such devices as xTV as a visual indication. The "stack" is undergoing changes as versions move forward and newer CPU-RAM chipsets are becoming available.
Anyone else noticed the EXPANSION this week of xSmart device advertising in both print and multimedia? The public push is on!
Edit: 1 word typo
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jpeps
Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3217
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Posted: Thu 17 Oct 2013, 12:06 Post subject:
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amigo wrote: | Yes, 'normal' android is not multi-tasking. Only the top-most app is running, while ones below are 'cached'. |
Yes, although this is largely a windows management issue, since you can have any number of apps running in the backround if you simply return to the home screen without closing them out. Thus, they'll be right where you left off when you return.
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Expect that this is how future (at least for the near-term) applications will exhibit. Those applications not exhibiting this was developed by developers who are still unaware of how to implement it.
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Developers typically write layouts for both landscape and portrait modes, so probably understand how to implement.
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amigo
Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2641
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Posted: Fri 18 Oct 2013, 10:57 Post subject:
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"apps running in the backround" is not acurate at this time -the apps are cached which means their state is saved and can be immediately restored by bringing the app to the 'foreground'. This is not the same as multi-tasking, because an android app which is backgrounded is not 'running'.
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