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How to get the best of your low end smartwatch

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On April 1, 2015 I wrote an article about how to get the best of your U8 smartwatch, it turned out to be the most read content om my website, summing now more than 88k visits.

The article shows a way to enhance the U8 smartwatch capabilities with the help of Tasker, an app available on the google play store.

Even if my original article targeted the U8 smartwatch by U Watch, indeed the concepts and ideas fit well also ...

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Android development, fetch data from API and execute a callback

android java programming

I love first-class function programming languages (js and python for example), and I use to pass callbacks everywhere, especially when dealing with events or async tasks.

I'm a completely newbie with Java, but I started learning it because I decided time has come to develop android native applications. One of the first functionality I needed and I wanted to master is retrieving information (in json format, in my case) from some sort of API in order to display it in my application.

The equivalent in a modern js application would be making an ajax call to a server endpoint and process the data when fetched. This of course involves the use of callbacks, since data are fetched asynchronously and must ...

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U8 SmartWatch Voice Commands

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Hi everybody!

It turns out that our astonishing watch can perform voice commands to the phone.
And that's good news! You can perform as Michael Knight and women will tear their air to be at your side.

I thought about this possibility long time ago' but foolishly I supposed that there was no way to stream my fucking voice from the watch to the phone (except during a phone call), now I've discovered I was wrong.

When the watch is ...

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How to send short text messages from your U8 smartwatch

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With this entry I should gain a mention from U8 boss, whoever he is.

It's a shame that the wrist dialer can transmit to the phone only ~ 40 numbers, otherwise all this stuff could be even more cool. But first things first...

Some one told you that your cheap and stupid smartwatch can't send text messages?

Well, he was wrong! At least a bit wrong. Actually you can send very short text messages from your wrist and here I'll tell ...

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U8 smartwatch - Calculator App - Proof of Concept

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This is a proof of concept of how we can develop a simple calculator app (basic operations over two numbers) for the U8 smartwatch taking advantage from the tasker+notification method described in my prevoius post. Read the "How to get the best of your U8 smartwatch" entry before going on if you've not done it yet.

Your Smartwatch Loves Tasker!

Since the whole post series about U8 smartwatch and tasker had a good following, I decided to ...

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How to get the best of your U8 smartwatch

android smartwatch tasker u8

Yesterday my new U8 smartwatch arrived to me after a long trip around the world.
I'm happy with it, ok it is not as smart as the samsung gear or the sony smartwatch, but it's a super cheap product and you can't expect too much from it.

Nevertheless it has some nice functionalities:

  • receive and make calls from your watch
  • receive phone notifications
  • control your camera and take photos
  • sync your phonebook and call log
  • play music
  • anti lost feature
  • barometer, altimeter and pedometer

Wow, but it's not my intention to talk here about such things, there are trillions of youtube videos reviewing them on youtube.

Here I want to deepen how we can use two of such functions in ...

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How to create your own speech recognition application with tasker

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Tasker is an awesome android app which let's you create and execute deep level tasks based on context in user-defined profiles, or widgets

What captured my attention is its javascript API which let's you interact with many phone functions through javascript, so you can imagine how many nice job you can accomplish with this app.

Here we'll see how you can implement your own speech recognition application so that your phone will answer to your defined commands!

We'll see how to get it through tasker interface, but then we'll see that it is possible to use javascript(let) to enhance our application.

Create the speech recognition task

Ok, let's start by creating our main task, here comes the description:

A1 ...

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Two must-have apps for android sysadmins

android mobile tips

This is only a short post to speak about two free awesome applications which I considered essential (especially the keyboard one) to perform sysadmin task from remote.

android

The terminal

I've tried a lot of them, and finally I decided to stay with Android Terminal Emulator, is fast and clean, and works well on my SGS.

The keyboard

Well, for those like me who can't edit text without vim the first problem to face when editing from mobile is ...

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Change the user agent in android default browser

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Se anche a voi sta sul cazzo il fatto che molti siti che dispongono di una versione mobile la rendano "limitata" e soprattutto rendano disponibili a pagamento la maggior parte dei contenuti che sono gratuiti  per la versione desktop, allora potrà tornarvi utile questa semplice procedura.

Il dispositivo mobile viene "intercettato" andando a leggere lo user agent fornito dal browser, pertanto non ci resta che modificarlo in modo da fingere di essere un browser classico che gira su sistema operativo "tipo desktop".

Ecco come fare:

  1. aprite il browser
  2. Nella barra degli indirizzi digitate about:useragent
  3. Si aprirà una view con scelta multipla, potete selezionare lo user agent che intendete impostare, in questo caso "desktop"
  4. Andate a leggervi la gazzetta o la repubblica senza pagare una mazza

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