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Android 3.0 Tablet: Install Android 3.0 in Nook Color

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Nook Color can install Android 3.0 now. It’s not exactly official, but you can follow the steps to get a prefect Android 3.0 tablet.

If you want to install android 3.0 in Nook color, please backup your nook data first. Then, what u need is a Nook color ebook reader, a 4GB MicroSD Card (8GB microSD Card is preferred). Then, let’s step by step, to get our honeycomb in Nook color.

  • Download Patched Android 3.0 System Image, and unzip the image  on your computer.

Http Download (3.5GB): nookhoney04.img.zip

Torrent(3.5GB): nookhoney04.img.zip

  • Insert your SD card in the computer. The preferred size is 8GB. Some say 4GB card get problem during burning image, but it still works.
  • Burn the Android 3.0 image in sd-card.

PC Users:

Download WinImage, and under ‘Disk’ choose “Restore Virtual Image to Physical Drive.” Change the files shown at the bottom to “all files” and select the android image file.

Mac Users:

Unmount the SD driver by below command in terminal window:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk#
(replace # with your number. Do NOT use the disk#s)

The computer should say: Unmount of all volumes on disk was successful. Then type the below command to write the image to sd card:

dd if=nookhoney04.img of=/dev/rdisk# bs=1m

  • Turn off the Nook Color, and insert the sd-card. Then, it will boot into Android 3.0.

In next post, I will show you how to install the Android Market in you Nook Color Android 3.0 Tablet.

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Add Google Admob in Android Application

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Latest Update: Add AdMob with Google Play Service

Related Post:

Old Post About AdMob:
Add AdMob v6.0 to Android Apps
Add Admob To Your Android Apps With SDK 4.3.1

Admob is a new way to monetize mobile applications. Currently, it supports multi-platform, including iPhone, Android, WebOS, and Flash Lite. In this AdMob for Android example, I will show you how to integrate Admob in your android applications defined in layout XML file.

Try Example: download and run AdMobExample.apk on your android phone
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Android

Android Canvas Example

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Recommend Reading: Draw Animation on Canvas Example

Android provide a full functions on Graphics. Commonly, we can use 2D graphics library and OpenGL ES 1.0 for 3D graphic. In this post, I gonna to introduce the 2D graphics, and give you a 2D graphics canvas example. Usually, when we try to draw 2D graphics, as android developer page say, we have two ways to choose:

  1. Draw your graphics or animations into a View object from your layout.
  2. Draw your graphics directly to a Canvas.

Draw graphics directly to a Canvas is a little bit complicated. You can go to the android developer page for farther details. The following example will show you how to draw a bitmap on the canvas, when you click the canvas.

Android Canvas Example screenshot
Android Canvas Example Screenshot

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Flash Flex Rotate Around a Point by Matrix

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The Flex provides a lots of functions about Matrix Transformation functions. Using these matrix functions, we can implements 2D transformation in a very easy way. For 2D transformation, the most common transformation is Translate, Scale, Rotate, and Skew. By default, all these transformations are according to the Top-Left point, (0, 0) point. For example, when we set a rotation as 45 in a canvas, the canvas will rotate 90 degrees around (0,0), as figure 1 shown. The Scale and Skew also use the same rule to transformation. But lots of times, we want to rotate a canvas, movieclip, or an image, around a certain point, for example, rotate it around center point, as figure 2 shown. In this post, I will show you how to make a rotation around a point.

Default Rotation ExampleRotate Around Center Example

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Android

Adobe AIR 2.6 Release For Android And iOS

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Adobe AIR 2.6 is released already. As adobe announced: “The primary focus of 2.6 is to achieve feature parity between Android and iOS”. And it is true, there are lots of improvements focusing on the android and ios.

  • Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding
  • Microphone support on iOS
  • StageWebView on iOS
  • Multitasking on iOS
  • Retina Support on iOS
  • iOS Camera, CameraUI, and CameraRoll Support
  • Improved hardware acceleration on iOS
  • PFI is now ADT
  • Programmatic control of the display of the on-screen keyboard
  • Support for the Amazon Android Market
  • On-device debugging over USB (Android only)
  • Enhanced text support on Android
  • Bundled Android USB drivers on Windows

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