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[Q] Is this native video calling (settings)

I was playing around with ADW and I was adding a custom shortcut.
I went to ADW.Activities and was looking around for something fun to put on the home screen when I came accross a videocall.videocall intent under call settings
I will include screenshots for those who want to see it.
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Is this a setup of sorts for native videocalling on the phone? Is this sprint only?
Do other people have this on there phones?
The shortcut opens to a window with options for setting up how the phone handles video calls but I dont see anything in the phone anywhere about making a video call.
Any ideas.
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anyone who wants to see this on their phone should add a custom activity to their adw home screen and goto callSettings-->video call(videocall.videocall)

My guess is that they are anticipating the use of the VIDEO_CALL (or whatever) intent. Pure speculation on my part, however.

I read through that and don't see a video.call intent... Could you highlight it for me? Or maybe just quote. I have been developing for android for quite some time now, with the occasional hacking and library modification.
I have never heard, other than a rumor, native support in an android phone. (and the rumors I have heard all talk about gingerbread.) A platform update would not need seeds in the system for future usage.
I dont mean to rip on you sorry it sounds like it.
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smeyerhuky said:
I read through that and don't see a video.call intent... Could you highlight it for me? Or maybe just quote. I have been developing for android for quite some time now, with the occasional hacking and library modification.
I have never heard, other than a rumor, native support in an android phone. (and the rumors I have heard all talk about gingerbread.) A platform update would not need seeds in the system for future usage.
I dont mean to rip on you sorry it sounds like it.
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Oh don't worry about "ripping" me, I haven't started development on the Android yet, I've just been reading up a bit on it.
As you pointed out, I was just speculating on how ADW would have support for video calls when such apps aren't common yet. I guess any new intents would be in the OS already, which they aren't. Sorry!

Anyone have any idea? Wheb I get home I will pull this file and baksmali it to see if I can find more from it, using a debugger.
By the way, the activities menu in adw just polls the phone for intents built in to the applications to add as a shortcut these do not belong to adw
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[Android in C#] possibly faster than ever

I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this: http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/
It seems a company called Xamarin has ported the entire Android code from Java to C#, making it much much faster
Here is a test showing this difference:
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I think it would be amazing to see this port in action on the HD2
the source of this project is freely available here: https://github.com/xamarin/XobotOS

nice find!
now if there would be anybody here really interested in porting this in our aging HD2 - well that would be great!
& here's mono for Andy
http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid

bever86 said:
I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this: http://blog.xamarin.com/2012/05/01/android-in-c-sharp/
It seems a company called Xamarin has ported the entire Android code from Java to C#, making it much much faster
Here is a test showing this difference:
I think it would be amazing to see this port in action on the HD2
the source of this project is freely available here: https://github.com/xamarin/XobotOS
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mengfei said:
nice find!
now if there would be anybody here really interested in porting this in our aging HD2 - well that would be great!
& here's mono for Andy
http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid
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Hmm, this looks pretty awesome and makes TOTALL sense as to why it runs faster. I use to program in C# for windows mobile and windows 7 using .net framework. I LOVED IT. i hate programming in Java for android. Seeing C# code again would warm my heart
Only thing i m worried about, is google will most likely pull something out of their butt claiming it illegal to port their source code over to another language. I can just feel it. Its gonna be a money battle. But hopefully they can come to a trouce and run everything via C#.

^ so will you do a port for us, just for educational purposes

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^ so will you do a port for us, just for educational purposes
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Well after reading the links posted, its not actually a port, its completely revamped code. What they did essentially is translated it, just as one would translate English to Spanish or any other speaking language. They just translated Java to C#
I downloaded the setup from MONO however my internet sucks so i kept getting download fails. so im in a local hotel and i'll try it on their WiFi considering its like 20Mbps it should be fine but i'll look into it. Im not sure how to actually put it on the phone but that will come with research. and yes its for educational purposes AND i want this too
Now one thing i couldnt find/figure out is things like android market apps, will those need to be converted to C# as well? (I think i remember reading something about this in the link, i believe android apps are run in an emulator, and C# apps written in Visual Studio <3 will be run directly. I'll have to look into it more. But i'm workin on a project already now so it will have to be later sorry :/

I am more than willing to work with people to see if it is possible to get this working on the HD2.
However I am only a novice programmer with only very little knowledge of C#
I'm not sure how the legal issues would be on this.. Android is opensource to some degree but I don't know much about that stuff
It would be so awesome to have this power our HD2's to the max .. though market apps would be a problem..

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Couldn't download, phone told me package could not be verified.
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Couldn't download, phone told me package could not be verified.
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If it is not downloading or installing, mail them. They may guide you. It is quite informative.

kaatisu84 said:
Couldn't download, phone told me package could not be verified.
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Did you install the app finally?

Kindly install the app and share your valuable feedback so that we can improve it further.

Thanks to some Xda members who have mailed us regarding the app.

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Thanks to some Xda members who have mailed us regarding the app.
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count me in.

can you please attach the app coz i cant download from here as it not shown in my store country

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[Q] Kitekat and flash player?

Anybody found out how to make flash player compatibile with kitekat?

I'm looking for the answer also it's a pain its not working.

Juts noticed this. Even using the latest apk from the Adobe archive doesn't work with any browser. I guess KitKat has properly killed off flash...

I hope somebody will find a way to revert this issue. Its annoying when I cant use my device as I like ;(

Flash works fine on the photon browser
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Not the same. Which is a plus.

I dont like photon browser. Looks messy

Amiga4ever123 said:
I dont like photon browser. Looks messy
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Same here I just couldn't use it. Is there any other options?
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abdel12345 said:
Same here I just couldn't use it. Is there any other options?
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Do what I do. Pester the webmasters to move on to HTML5. Its faster, more secure, and far more compatible. I've found a lot of sites (some I can't/won't repost here) through inquirires that now play video just fine through Chrome and HTML5 on the Kit-Kat ROM. If its flash games you're concerned about, well, sadly, I have no solution. I suffered similar heartbreak when I learned that Dalvik != java

Defined go stopper for me before flash works

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Do what I do. Pester the webmasters to move on to HTML5. Its faster, more secure, and far more compatible. I've found a lot of sites (some I can't/won't repost here) through inquirires that now play video just fine through Chrome and HTML5 on the Kit-Kat ROM. If its flash games you're concerned about, well, sadly, I have no solution. I suffered similar heartbreak when I learned that Dalvik != java
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Yeah I was hoping to be able to open some flash games like the windows tablets do and other things. In school we use lots of activities in my anatomy class to match up different body functions and parts and these walkthrough type explaining activities that require flash.
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My little brother is in a similar predicament
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Another reason I plan on staying with 4.3.

Flash doesn't work on my N5. I don't think its worth sacrificing flash over the features of 4.4 that I'd hardly use, so just 4.3 for my N10!

Sports Scores App for Wear

Are there any sports scores apps for android wear other than sofascore?

scottharris4 said:
Are there any sports scores apps for android wear other than sofascore?
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theScore: Sports & Scores

1%Walker said:
theScore: Sports & Scores
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I downloaded this but no app has showed up on my watch. Is there suppose to be an actual app or does it just push notifications over? was hoping to have an app that I could go into.

tu3218 said:
I downloaded this but no app has showed up on my watch. Is there suppose to be an actual app or does it just push notifications over? was hoping to have an app that I could go into.
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This is what I want. For example, say it's NFL Sunday. I want to check the scores for all the games, not add all the teams as my favorites and rely on notifications for the scores.

scottharris4 said:
This is what I want. For example, say it's NFL Sunday. I want to check the scores for all the games, not add all the teams as my favorites and rely on notifications for the scores.
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Yeah exactly. Pretty sad we can't get a decent sports app. Not even one. Very disappointing so far for android wear.
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tu3218 said:
Yeah exactly. Pretty sad we can't get a decent sports app. Not even one. Very disappointing so far for android wear.
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Yep, pretty much. Wear is capable of a lot but the app devs don't really seem to care about making new or further developing current apps to support it.

scottharris4 said:
Yep, pretty much. Wear is capable of a lot but the app devs don't really seem to care about making new or further developing current apps to support it.
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I think it's just the lack of people really wanting/needing these smartwatches that is the main problem right now. Therefore leading to lack of dev support as you said because what's the point if not many people are even using it. Hopefully it picks up though. With the addition of the apple watch, and the moto 360 v2 soon to be out I think, hopefully it brings more attention to this area of devices. Problem is, not one watch out there has proven that smartwatches are needed at this point in time. Not even the apple watch. I'm sure what it is that would make these needed by people but hopefully some company can determine what it is.

Is this the sort of thing you all were looking for?
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