Android Device Owner - Minimal App
Android 5.0 introduced a managed device mode. This feature allows a device owner to perform some privileged tasks often related to device administration, such as lock/hide apps, configure user accounts, wipe/reboot device, or remote updates without user interaction. All this can be done without...
In my previous post I've been playing with Godot's new feature - GDNative. GDNative module allows you to compile native C/C++ code into a library and use it together with your app. You can then call your custom C/C++ code from GDScript transparently as if it would be regular GDScript code. In co...
Taking Screenshots Remotely on Android with ADB
Sometimes it is useful to grab a screenshot from your new app remotely through Wi-Fi. For example, you might be using sensors like the accelerometer and you would like to show the results while your moving. In this situation it might be more comfortable to move with the device without the attached U...
Using Godot's GDNative on Android
Just recently I started to play with the Godot engine and I really liked it. My first experiment with Godot was a minimalist causal game. It certainly isn't the most advanced 3D graphics game, but it took only a couple of hours to create it and most of the time I spent on creating the graphics...
Killing Current Foreground App With ADB
Recently I've been working on an Android project that used the lock task mode. This mode can be used to set up a single-purpose Android device with your own kiosk app where the user is not allowed to exit your application. Home and back buttons have basically no effect.
When I was testing this ki...