Samsung Galaxy Tab S Android Tablet Review 2015

As an Android mobile and tablet giant, Samsung has a big Android product family. Till 2015, Samsung has released their new Android phone Samsung Galaxy S 6 Edge and Galaxy S 6 after their last Android phone Samsung Galaxy Note Edge released in late 2014. In the Android tablet product line, their high-end tablet Galaxy Tab S was released in July 2014 which can still be considered as one of the best Android tablets in the world. To meet the all needs of world wide customers, Samsung also has an inexpensive but high performance Android tablet Galaxy Tab 4 which comes in 8 inch and 10 inch screen as well. Here is my Samsung android tablet review which may help you to choose the right one.
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Decide Android App Screen Size

Different from iPhone and iPad, live wallpaper is one of the personalization features to customize Android phones and Android tablets. A live wallpaper on Android is used as background on home screen which animates and changes basing on user actions or over time in the day. As Android developers and designers, we can implement our own live wallpaper and monetize it as an Android applications. Hence, I decide to create a series of tutorials to show how to design a live wallpaper for Android device and monetize it by published in Google Play Store.

In this series of tutorials, I will divide my tutorials into 4 parts:

  • Android Animated Live WallPaper Tutorials 1: Decide Android App Screen Size
  • Android Animated Live WallPaper Tutorials 2: Make Android WallPaper Service
  • Android Animated Live WallPaper Tutorials 3: Make Interactive Android Live Wallpaper
  • Android Animated Live WallPaper Tutorials 4: Monetize Android Live Wallpaper in Google Play Store

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Android Phone Tablet Screen Size and Density

Because of varieties of screen size and density of Android phone, it is very hard for Android developers and Android UI designers to work on Android devices. To create an Android app, we try to do our best to make it compatible as many Android devices as possible. Therefore, I think it is necessary to summarize an Android device screen size and density table to help android developers and designers to check from time to time. This table doesn’t cover all the android phones and tablets.

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How to Choose Tablets Between iPad mini, Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD

These days, I decide to buy my first tablet. However, it is very hard for me to choose because there are so many tablets released this year. Currently, Apple has three iPad tablets products, iPad mini, iPad 2 and iPad with retina. Google also released their first android tablet, Google Nexus 7. At the same time, Amazon updated their Kindle Fire to Kindle Fire HD in 7 inch screen and 8.9 inch screen. Another big tablets vendor, Samsung also release several tablets in different models.
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How to Upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich?

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is released in 2011 October 19. Let’s upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right now. This new version will be the major platform which adds a variety of new features for users. It brings the extensive features and Holographic themes from Android 3.x to smart phone screens. After we upgrade our phones to Android 4.0. We can get all benefits from android tablets features. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich provides an optimized user experience for smart phones and android tablets.
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