About Accordion Hands is a fun way to interactively “play” a virtual accordion! The app was inspired by discovering the funny Life Accordion to Trump YouTube videos. This app is not meant to be a real accordion simulator! In its current form, the app is purely just a tech demo (just for fun), but I … Read more
Today Google released an app “Cardboard Camera” for Android in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.cyclops A free app to create 3D virtual reality photos (stereoscopic 3D 360° panoramas). VR Photography The app takes a three-dimensional panorama you can view in the Google Cardboard app. The result is a 360° image where near things look near, far things look … Read more
In this post, I compare the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920 (Release date: April 2015) against the Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900 (Release date: April 2014). Notes: I’m not trying to compete with dedicated phone review websites, rather I just wanted to share my two cents on how these two phones compare. Also, I currently own an S5 since it was released … Read more
Shameless plug (It’s my blog though), but I’m truly being honest when I say: I use FeedSpeak every single day. FeedSpeak has become such a part of how I get my news and updates, that I don’t know what I would do without it. Of all the things I have worked on, be it software … Read more
I recently upgraded my phone from a Motorola Droid X to a Samsung Galaxy S3 (finally!), and WOW what a difference! Below is a giant chart comparing the two phones, but first I’ll list some random thoughts about owning and using the GS3. Not surprisingly, everything about the Galaxy S III is just amazing! When … Read more
I have been using a custom build.prop file for a while now on my Droid X. There are several benefits [example] for doing so; the main one for me is a higher virtual screen resolution, also known as “LCD density”. This can be done via various methods, including programs such as LCD Density Changer, or manually … Read more
March 2011 With the help of Motodev Studio for Android, I’ve extracted the android-opencv JNI camera example and spawned a fork of my original computer vision app, Viewer, to an OpenCV version: ViewerCV. Both are available on Git Hub as open source software example of doing Computer Vision on Android with OpenCV. Viewer Features: *FAST Features (default android-opencv example) *Square detection *Sobel … Read more
I got an incredible opportunity to travel to Las Vegas and give a short talk at the 2011 AT&T Developer Summit on a few of the cool Android projects I’ve done in school. I was given only ~5 minutes to present 3 of my projects: RoadBump, FeedSpeak, and SPRIME – giving a student’s perspective on Android programming. … Read more
January 2010 Over the holiday break, I finally created an Android app that allows image processing on the camera’s raw data, and displays it back on the screen. It only uses Java on the CPU for now, but in my free time I’ll be porting the code to OpenGL ES to run on the GPU, and … Read more
May 2010 FeedSpeak reads your Google Reader RSS news feeds aloud to you using Text-To-Speech. FeedSpeak started as a class project, but I now continue development on my own free time. Read the XDA-Developers blog post about FeedSpeak! (Note: reviewed for v1.9.6) FeedSpeak Pro for Android on AppBrain FeedSpeak Lite for Android on AppBrain … Read more