android

This post is a note to remind myself how to manually flash Android firmware on a Nexus device. Step 1, download the firmware to your computer. I downloaded Android 5 from: http://www.droid-life.com/2014/11/13/download-android-5-0-ota-update-nexus-5-7-10-4/ Step 2, connect Nexus 7 to the computer. Mine runs Ubuntu 14.10, and I already downloaded Android SDK. Make sure that “Developer Options” is enabled. If it’s not, go to Settings -> About tablet. Then click on “Build Number” 7 times....

I just got this problem today when I opened an Android project with Android Studio. Basically, anywhere there’s a reference to R, for example R.layout.footer_view, Android Studio will complain that it cannot resolve symbol R. The fix is surprisingly easy. All I need to do was running Gradle clean and Gradle build. Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17054000/cannot-resolve-symbol-r-android-studio

The Eclipse IDE that comes bundle with Android Development Tools (ADT) crashes when run on my laptop running Fedora. The error message which logged to console is: Fortunately, there’s a way to fix this problem by opening ‘eclipse.ini’ file, in my case: and added this line to the end of that file: Credit: Android – Solución Fatal Error del IDE Eclipse (ADT)

MIUI (1.7.22) uses Arial as the default font. If you hate it as I do, here is how to change it. I assume you have adb working. We are going to replace only 2 fonts - Arial.ttf and Arial-Bold.ttf. First, let’s back up the old fonts just in case thing didn’t go well as we want to. (I learned this the hard way, and keen to avoid it at all cost)...