Here’s a quick tip that is invaluable when debugging your communications with a web service from a device (in my case and Android phone) that is on you network.  This of course requires that you have root access on your routing device…I use a WRT54G running DD-WRT. Here it is: iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING [...]

I’ve had a couple of people recently asking me if it was necessary to pay for an Android app twice.  Meaning if they buy an app on their Android phone, do they have to pay again in order to download the same app onto one (or all) of their other Android devices.  The answer is, it depends. [...]

I was just trying to create a web server application and ran into this, so I thought I’d share it. I wanted to run my Android web server on port 80 (since that’s where web servers usually run), but I kept getting a BindException saying “Permission denied”. Note that ServerSocket, of course, requires android.permission.INTERNET in [...]

I just recently upgraded to the new Samsung Galaxy S II (or Epic 4G in Sprint speak), and today I’m posting my first video about the phone.  I’m really liking the Galaxy S II, mostly because of it’s beautiful, large AMOLED screen—it truely is very pretty! It’s not something you need to do everyday, but [...]