As a developer, there might be some need to fake locations when developing and testing mobile apps for different countries. Lots of the times some fake GPS apps will be used and they will ask to enable mock location access on the device before allowing you to fake GPS. To achieve this, we first need to have developer mode enabled.In this post, we will show how the developer mode can be enabled and disabled on Huawei devices.Go to Settings, find About phone and open it. You should be able to see an entry called Build number. Tap on that 5 - 7 times.You will see either one of below depends on yo...

Android is one of the safest operating systems for smartphones and tablets if used correctly. Unfortunately, only a third of Android users use the latest version, and older versions are far more vulnerable than newer ones.Not to mention that many manufacturers take their time when it comes to downloading the latest security patches. A news blog Android Authority ranked the fastest manufacturers in downloading system updates. Here are the results:LG - 78 daysMotorola - 88 daysHTC - 95 daysSony - 99 daysXiaomi - 126 daysOnePlus - 131 daysSamsung - 143 days.Since the ranking took place in 2017, t...

This tutorial assumes that you already have an activity and are using an XML layout.Open the layout XML and add the button element.  Assign an ID with the “@+id” operator.  The + tells Android to generate an ID for this element so that you can reference it in your Java files.This is an example. Your layout and text elements will probably be very different. In this example case, the ID of the button is “close”.<Button android:id="@+id/close" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="tru...

Google released the new Android development code for Android 4.4 :KitKat.The new version will bring astonishing user experience for Android users.The interesting thing about the name is that it has the same name as one brand of Nescafe's chocolate wafer. Nescafe has authorized that Google can use this name as their development code. We may guess that the project team or the director was eating Kitkat or like to eat Kitkat while they were brainstorming the new development code, so they came out this one for the new version.Let's look back the previous development codes of Android.1.0：Andro...

Google released the latest Android usage stats on Monday. Jelly Bean becomes the most popular Android OS for the first time. It takes 37.9% Android market share(32.3% from 4.1.x and 5.6% from 4.2.x). Ginegerbread is at the second place and it has 34.1% Android market share.This is a good news to many Android developers as they can use many new features provided in the new system if there are more and more users are using the new OS. Also if Google wants to attract news users, they have to encourage all vendors to adopt the new system on their devices. This time Jelly Bean takes the first place...

According to Sina Tech, research firm Kantar Worldpanel's latest report shows that market share of Android phones exceeds 70% in UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain from March to May, thus drives the global market share of Android close to 70% .The report shows that despite the popularity of smart phones in developed countries slows down, but Android continues its growth. During this period, market share of Android in Europe is 70.4% which is nearly 10% higher than the same period last year. Apple's iPhone market share in Europe is 17.8%, while the market share of Windows Phone is 6.8%.Global...

Socket is a kind of interface for different sides t communicate, it usually identified by an IP and a port. There are many server side software on a server and they would provide different service. Each server many create some sockets and bind them to some ports so that clients can listen to.Software on the Internet will exchange data though a bidirectional connection established. Each end of the connection has a socket created. In Java, Socket and ServerSocket are in java.net package, ServerSocket is used for server side and Socket is used when establishing connection. Once a successful conne...

In response to Apple's iOS system, Google and Samsung stood on the same side. But with the increase of market share of Samsung Android devices, Google begins to feel the threat from Samsung.On MWC in Barcelona, a group of business executives said Google increasingly worried about Samsung after a private party. Because its equipment has occupied 40% of the Android devices, which could erode the Google advertising service. Google hopes manufacturers such as HTC and HP can challenge Samsung.It is reported that on an activity on Google last winter, Andy Rubin, Google Android responsible person pra...