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[Q] App using Google Maps need overlay help

Hey there I am currently on a team creating an application that will be using Google Maps. We are new to Android as well. One of the key features of our app is being able to see markers on the map that are populated from a database. Such as when you go into the actual Maps app and search 'hotels' or 'gas stations'.
We used this to get started: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-mapview.html
However both our group and another separate group (school project) that are using google maps are having a problem with this code on that page. When ever either of us go to "touch" the marker in the emulator, instead of the dialog box coming up, the app just crashes.
We used this code exactly how it was written.
How can we get this dialog box to come up when the marker is touched?
Also how can we get it to load a page when the dialog box is touched (such as when you search 'hotels' and then touch the marker, then touch the box and it loads an information page)

Bump. We would really like to know what is up with this seemingly simple task.

WebKey & Google Play on FTV2

So, I have a PM a while back about Webkey app on FTV. Here it is
@clembo100 said:
Hi there, I have just installed webkey on my Amazon TV Firestick in order to remote access Kodi installation configs etc.
When starting the app on the browser I can connect but get a plain replica of a phone on the screen with a small android icon on it but no actual way of viewing the screen or controlling anything. The mouse pointer changes when over some of the edges of the screen as though to do something but nothing seems to be working correctly. I wondered if you had come across this or can help with a fix? Thanks for reading this
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I had the same problem on my FTV2 running version 3.2.6. The new version is not as feature rich (no terminal, no file transfers, no file system navigation, no way to input text easily) as the old one. Alas, you cannot run the older version on FTV2, it will refuse to start, either manually or auto-boot.
But, I have playing around with it and found that you can navigate menus using the keyboard arrow keys. Certain menu items can be invoked using mouse clicks as well (eg, if you go to Applications and open an app., you get different choices like "Run App" or "Clear Data". You can click on them and it seems to work). Also, usually once you are within an app, you can point and click using your mouse. So, even though it is crippled, it does work, though not as seamlessly as the older version. You can get the latest one at http://webkey.cc/ and there is a link for direct apk download.
One of the best uses I have for it right now is to interact with Google Play (system app). I have frozen my GPlay app at 5.6.8. As others have indicated, the mouse does not work (using K400) in the app. But, I can point and click in the GPlay app using Webkey and it makes it easy. Tip, if you need to click on the rectangle formed by 3 horizontal lines at the top of the page to get into your settings, click on the top left corner of that rectangle (of just those 3 lines) and the menu should pop down.
An interesting thing I found, if you install GPlay (5.6.8) as a user app, the mouse works, but it stops working when GPlay (same version) is installed as a system app. Of course as a user app, you get the error (976?) that won't allow you to install apps from within GPlay.

Android: are there limitations on available apps?

So that's an Intel processor inside, I wonder if there are limitations on available apps from the store, or if I will be able to continue using all my preferred apps from my previous Tab.
That would be a reason to buy it or not!
This

Very few limitations. I just scrolled through "my library" on the play store and found only the following without an "install" button (implying incompatibility):
- Starbucks (I think more because of screen issues than processor -- which doesn't really matter for Madrid in any case!)
- MyScript NEBO
- Fast Finder
- Quick Settings for Android
- Do It Later
- MS Office Mobile (a screen-size issue, because Word, Excel, & Powerpoint apps work OK)
- Voice Search
- Adobe Flash Player 11

I can use NEBO.
Getting it set up is reasonably easy.
On my phone I installed it BUT did not activate it because it asked me to write on the screen – I have no stylus for it to recognize.
I then extracted the apk file with one of the free apk extractors
I then copied the apk over to the Yoga book and ran it (make sure you have developer mode set up).
When you run it for the first time a box will pop up asking you to write on the screen with your stylus. With our Yoga Books we have to switch over to “stylus” mode to do that then scribble on the pad. That’s it …. Done and good to go.
I had to do this each time a new update happened. Still doing it actually.
Hope that helps.

Thanks, guys, I've bought it and seems to run every app I need!!

I am unable to run "sandblast protect" on the Yoga Book I recently purchased. It's running the latest 7.1.1 software. It goes through the install process and then I get the dreaded "Protect has stopped" error when I attempt to launch it. Can someone try to install and run this app and let me know if works for them?
My IT department requires sandblast mobile to be running on any android devices that access our corporate email so this is an important app for me... Thanks.

Samsung One UI navigation buttons

Does anyone know where I can find or download the navigation buttons of the Galaxy S10 o One UI? I couldn't find any... Badly need it for the theme that I am creating for my phone.?

ermond012 said:
Does anyone know where I can find or download the navigation buttons of the Galaxy S10 o One UI? I couldn't find any... Badly need it for the theme that I am creating for my phone.
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Download good lock in galaxy store its an app available in samsung mobiles only it will help you customize ur phone. Within the app look for NavStar i will allow you to change the nav bar icons.
here is a video showing you how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wH26KM1elg
also f its not available in your country like me in France, i found a solution on reddit which is working:
"use a VPN (select country where Good Lock is available, example US, South Korea), remove your sim tray completely. Go to apps and force close Galaxy Apps. Then clear cache and clear data for Galaxy Apps. Next open Galaxy apps and you'll see it picks up as you were doing a fresh install (marketing info permission requested,etc).You'll have Good Lock available for download (search it in Galaxy Apps). Once you download it, open it and download the stuff you want: edge light+, sound assistant, one hand, etc. When everything is downloaded, access each one of them and do your setup as you like: one hand, edge light effects. Finally re-insert your sim-tray back. Close VPN connection. Galaxy Apps will return automatically to your country specific and you'll have Good Lock available. When updates are available for Routines, one hand, etc, you either repeat the steps above: remove sim tray + vpn and the updates will download (you open Good Lock and open each app inside it and you'll notice the update available) or sideload the updates from apk mirror ?"
credits to u/infractoru
link : https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyNote8/comments/9zlosn/good_lock_exynos_version_not_available/

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Remote Shutter for Wear OS

Hi All,
TL,DR: I'm looking for a remote shutter for any cam on any android phone similar to the one on Mi Bands. No the remote cameras with companion apps that we can find in play store.
I've just got a brand new TicWatch E3. So far the watch is great, everything what I've expected. There's only 1 gap I don't know how to cover.
I had a Xiaomi MiBand 5 before and is has a great feature, a remote shutter you can use with ANY opened cam on you phone, you just open the camera on your phone, tap the shutter on the band and the pic was taken.
I know that Google Camera does that from wear OS but for Pixel Phones only (it does not work on my Redmi Note 8 Pro with Pixel Experience rom and gcam mod) but I couldn't find anything similar to do it with any phone and camera as the MiBand does. Al I have found are remote cams apps that use their own companion cam app in the phone, but for those, the picture quality is no good at all.
Does anyone has an idea or recommendation to achieve this from wear os?

im looking for the same the only thing i could find that can do it was https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kemasdimas.wristcamera&hl=en&gl=US which isnt really what i want as it shows the camera screen on the phone.
If anyone else has any other suggestions please let me know.

I have done it using the following apps:
Tasker (to run the 'Take Photo' action
Bubble Cloud to trigger the above
There is a world of usefulness to be had using those two Apps and Android phone / Wear OS

Try Camera One. Though you have to install the companion app, it only uses it for communication with the watch. You dont even have to have it open. Once you launch the watch app, it automatically uses the camera, even if the phone is off. To get full features though, i think its about $4.

evil.weasel said:
I have done it using the following apps:
Tasker (to run the 'Take Photo' action
Bubble Cloud to trigger the above
There is a world of usefulness to be had using those two Apps and Android phone / Wear OS
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Interesting, could you share how to do this and what parameters have you used? Thanks

martinmarchese said:
Interesting, could you share how to do this and what parameters have you used? Thanks
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Install Tasker
Create Task that uses 'Take Photo' (you can find by typing in search box when creating the task) you can choose from Front / Back camera in the settings of this 'Take Photo' Action
Install Bubble Cloud from link above
Ensure installed on both watch & phone
Use the 'Wear Cloud Editor' section to create a watch screen
To launch the Task you created above, click the '+' button in 'Wear Cloud Editor' and select option to 'Add Tasker bubble (icon looks like a cog) and choose the 'Take Photo' (or whatever you named it) task, you can also choose icon / colour / transparency here
Add the screen created above to a watch tile (think it's called 'Favourites Cloud' or similar from memory?
Swipe to tile and press on the icon you chose to launch the task.
Hope make sense?

Looking for something similar, except that I need to trigger my GoPro Hero 8 shutter from my Galaxy Watch 4, ideally directly (i.e. not via phone), and ideally using BTLE not WiFi. Any suggestions?
(There's this, but that's out of my price range for a mere shutter control app.)