Displaying an overlay window is another way that can be used to customize the look of an Android device. An app that uses an overlay window can display content on top of all other apps.
One example of usage are Facebook Messenger chat heads. Another example are the various apps that adjust brigh...
Once in a while I find an Android app on the play store that I really think is cool. As an Android developer, I often analyze the technical aspects of the app I'm interested in. It might be just the way the UI works or some specific use of sensors and graphics rendering. I often also would like to...
Online APK Analyzer - Extract App Information
Recently I've created the following online tool
The tool can be used to dissect Android APK files and extract various information stored in AndroidManifest.xml and other important files. Most of its logic was written in C/C++ and compiled into WebAssembly.
I sometimes fin...
Cross-compiling OpenCV from sources and using it in my Android apps has long time been on my todo list.
I like to play with images and graphics stuff and OpenCV offers a lot of features related to image processing. Recently I found some free time and created my Pano Stitch & Crop app which uses...
Android 7.0 Nougat (API level 24) introduced the native camera API, which finally allowed fine-grained control of camera directly from C++.
The new API allows you to access image data directly in C, without the need to pass them from Java. Therefore, there might be some (small) performance ga...
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