http://androidactivist.org By And For The Community! Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://androidactivist.org/protips/android-pro-tip-using-google-maps-navigation/ http://androidactivist.org/protips/android-pro-tip-using-google-maps-navigation/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:00:42 +0000 Ed Waters http://androidactivist.org/?p=19298 One of the most used apps on my Android smartphone is Google Maps Navigation. This is a free feature/app, which to me, is one of the things that truly separates Android from the iPhone. Being able to use your phone as your free GPS device makes life so much easier than having to make sure [...]]]> http://androidactivist.org/protips/android-pro-tip-using-google-maps-navigation/feed/ 0 http://androidactivist.org/protips/protip-apps-to-sd/ http://androidactivist.org/protips/protip-apps-to-sd/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:00:13 +0000 Orlando Green http://androidactivist.org/?p=18811 For those of you still in low internal memory land, this is really simple and should save you some internal phone memory. Google allows developers to write their apps in a way that allows them to move to the SD card. This functionality is great if your phone doesn’t have a plethora of internal memory [...]]]> http://androidactivist.org/protips/protip-apps-to-sd/feed/ 0 http://androidactivist.org/reviews/run-android-ics-on-a-windows-7-pc/ http://androidactivist.org/reviews/run-android-ics-on-a-windows-7-pc/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:00:13 +0000 Steve Birchfield http://androidactivist.org/?p=18089 Recently I talked about running ROMs and images as virtual machines (VM) on our phones.  All of that is still in the early stages of development but running Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) on your Windows 7  PC is a reality today.  Thanks to the free virtualization software VirtualBox by Oracle and Dinesh from the Sysprobs site [...]]]> http://androidactivist.org/reviews/run-android-ics-on-a-windows-7-pc/feed/ 5 http://androidactivist.org/protips/pro-tip-starting-a-google-hangout-on-your-android-smartphone/ http://androidactivist.org/protips/pro-tip-starting-a-google-hangout-on-your-android-smartphone/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:00:51 +0000 Ed Waters http://androidactivist.org/?p=18128 I like having the ability to start a Google+ Hangout from my Android Smartphone. It is especially nice when I am travelling, I can find a quiet spot and either start a new hangout or participate in an existing hangout. A user must be using Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) or high to start or participate in a [...]]]> http://androidactivist.org/protips/pro-tip-starting-a-google-hangout-on-your-android-smartphone/feed/ 0 http://androidactivist.org/opinion/how-to-recover-from-a-lost-phone/ http://androidactivist.org/opinion/how-to-recover-from-a-lost-phone/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:32 +0000 Steve Birchfield http://androidactivist.org/?p=17897 Have you ever lost your phone? Do you know what to do in such a situation? I have never lost a phone but I have come close a few times. The anxiety attack that ensued was enough to make me decide to do something to minimize a possible loss. But what should you do to [...]]]> http://androidactivist.org/opinion/how-to-recover-from-a-lost-phone/feed/ 0