Category Archives: Android

Support fake Android TV devices

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Mikael Ståldal

Android TV is included in some modern Smart TVs, and there are also external set-top-boxes to get Android TV for any TV with HDMI input. However, there are also some set-top-boxes which almost, but not quite, support Android TV. With … Continue reading →

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Custom Preference for Android

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Mikael Ståldal

I need a setting with a numeric value in my Android app. There is no obvious fit among the standard Preferences in Android, so I decided to implement my own Preference subclass. This was a bit more involved than what … Continue reading →

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Don’t use PipedOutputStream on Android

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Mikael Ståldal

I was using java.io.PipedOutputStream in an Android app. The app performed horribly bad. After doing some profiling, it turned out that the call to PipedOutputStream.write(byte[]) that was really slow. After digging into the Android source code, I discovered that PipedOutputStream.write(byte[]) … Continue reading →

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Using AAC music files in Android

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Mikael Ståldal

If you have an file with .aac extension, it is AAC encoded audio in an ADTS container. If you want to play such file on an Android device, you have problems. Android 2.x does not support this file format at … Continue reading →

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