Cynic's Blog

To be honestly, the emulator which comes with Android Studio sucks! So, the only option left is to either connect a physical device to test out your apps (which I assume no one among us would like to do) or to use third party android emulators like androVM/virtualbox etc. Now, the thing is because of devilish market forces and 'policies' charted our by MBA guys, androVM, now rechristened as genymotion stopped releasing their awesome android images which could easily be downloaded and imported into any hypervizor like VMWare/VirtualBox. Instead, they have started making users register to their website and making them download images only though their genymotion application. But, some angelic creature has mirrored the old-er images (as new as 4.1.1). You can access those images at this page . The description about the download variants can be read here . Now that being said, download the suitable images on .ova format and import the image in VirtualBox and voila! you h...

I purchased an Android Phone in the early days of it coming to Indian market and I able to afford it ( just got a job), during mid 2010. The recent and popular version was Éclairs. I just went up to the shop and bought a nice and shiny Motorola Quench XT3 (XT502). When in other places XT502 was having Andriod Donut, I got as a special offer Éclairs. I was happy as hell. The Droid A couple of year passes, and newer versions of Android came from Éclairs to Froyo to Gingerbread then to the bigger version upgrades like Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and then Jelly Bean. By the end of 2012, I was literally surviving on my Motorola with Éclairs. I had to upgrade, anyhow. Now more that Motorola denied any upgrades for Quench XT3 . A trivia, Android version names are taken from sugary desserts with lexicographic sequencing. So, I did up-gradation from Éclairs to Gingerbread using a custom ROM from Cyanogenmod . An excellent community of enthusiast who develop their own custom ROMs oft...