Android

Monitoring Android Traffic with Wireshark

This migration away from direct Web access in favor of dedicated smartphone apps has made for a richer user experience, but it also has made knowing exactly what is going on “under the hood” a lot harder. Monitoring Android Traffic with Wireshark article from Linux Journal tells how you can use Wireshark to monitor data

Android device external mic wiring

Android devices can be used as signal generators and signal analyzers. It is easy when all you want is to get the signal out of the speaker or headphone connector, and you are happy to analyze what internal microphone in the device receives. But what if you want to feed some external signal into your

Sound level measuring with Android phone

Sound pressure level (SPL) or sound level is a logarithmic measure of the effective sound pressure of a sound relative to a reference value. It is measured in decibels (dB) above a standard reference level (20 µPa, which is usually considered the threshold of human hearing at 1 kHz). I have earlier used several different decibel

Android engineering apps

CFE Media’s Apps for Engineers is an an interactive directory of almost 60 engineering-related Android applications that were created by various companies. The idea is to offer a “pre-sort” of relevant mobile engineering applications loaded with various calculators, catalogs, file viewers, measurement tools, and more. Apps for Engineers is targeted for engineers working in industrial,

WordPress for Android

WordPress for Android is quite nice app to admin WordPress blog from smartphone. It allows posting and comments moderating easily. I still have some issues in sending web link postings: they do not show correctly when posted – I need to edit after posting Posted from WordPress for Android

I built Cardboard DIY Virtual Reality Headset

I just built Android Cardboard DIY Virtual Reality Headset of which I mentioned in the blog two weeks ago.  Here is my DIY version. I had to make some changed to lens holding part, because the lenses I had were a little lit larger than the ones the headset was designed to use (not too