Category: Mobile Development
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OneDrive on Android does not upload photos
I use OneDrive on my Android phone to automatically upload my phone photos to the cloud. This has stopped working recently. I suspect that a new Android feature on my Samsung Galaxy phone “App Optimization” may be to blame. This kills unused background processes after 3 days. I have turned off “App Optimisation” for OneDrive…
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What matters is WordPress and Office 365
Two years ago I placed a bet on what matters in IT and I said it was WordPress and Office 365. I think I won. WordPress powers 25% of the web and the new REST API coming out later this year will drive that upwards. There is a good article that discusses this here. Office…
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Microsoft Office 365 Excel is a mobile app platform
I help run an underwater hockey club. To smooth administration I wanted to create an mobile application to record attendance and the payment of weekly subs. My usual approach would be to create a WordPress application or perhaps a mobile app using Cordova to package an HTML and Javascript application. However I am trialling Microsoft…
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A workaround for Outlook.com not supporting attachments in appointments
Outlook.com is a free email and calendar server provided by Microsoft. It supports Exchange ActiveSync (commonly known as EAS) is a communications protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. EAS support is good because in practice it means that…
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How to connect to your Outlook.com contacts and calendar on an Android phone
As a freelancer I like to use the powerful Desktop Outlook client to manage my calendar and contacts. Unfortunately this stores all its data in .pst files which are very unreliable. It is far better to use web based calendaring and contact management. To do this but still use Desktop Outlook I am in the…
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Should you use Outlook on Android – No
I take the pain so you don’t have to. Outlook for Android does not work well. I drank the Microsoft Koolaid of “Office on any device” and moved all my email accounts on my Android phone from the stock email client over to the Outlook App. This has many faults * html in emails does…
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Recent apps button does not work after lollipop upgrade on Samsung Galaxy Alpha
When I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy Alpha from KitKat to Lollipop (Android 5.0.2) I found that the left soft-button that launches “Recent Apps” no longer functioned. I also found that I could not fill in forms in Copilot GPS and some other applications. This was fixed by ticking Settings > Display > Increase Touch Sensitivity…
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How access a laptop or phone camera in a web page
It is now possible to access a laptop or phone camera using a web page and standard HTML5. This is amazing. There is documentation and a working example here. Check it out, it worked for me. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ —(update 2015-02-07 20:08)— This works in Chrome on PC and Android phone. It does not work in IE…
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How to connect to a Galaxy S3 with adb
I recently had to reinstall my Android development environment because my Samsung Galaxy S3 did an over the air update and is now on Android 4.3. Follow these instructions to enable developer options on your phone. Install and run Samsung Kies to enable a USB connection to your phone (I could not get the driver only install…
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Mobile contacts are a key mobile application battleground
This is a very interesting article about the importance of mobile phone contacts. Here is an excerpt but it is worth reading the whole article.
Dr James Bayley 