A locked Bootloader in your Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 or any other Android phone prevents you from installing all those cool Custom ROMs, or even rooting in some phones. Every manufacturer like Xiaomi has their own version of bootloader intstalled on their phones. With a locked bootloader phone manufacturers want you to stick to their …
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The SoundPool is a very useful class for playing and managing audio resources in Android applications. While using SoundPool class is fairly easy, there are two different constructors that we can use to initialize the SoundPool class, one is for API version less than 21, and one is for API version 21 and greater. You …
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The good ol’ constructor: SoundPool(int maxStreams, int streamType, int srcQuality) was deprecated in API level 21. We now need to use SoundPool.Builder to create soundPool instance. To use SoundPool in the device running API level >= 21 and API level < 21 just use the following code : if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) { mSoundPool = …
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Changing the background color of tab in TabLayout is fairly simple using the design support library that Android provides. You can simply change the background of the whole TabLayout using the app:tabBackground property and you can change the tab indicator color using the app:tabIndicatorColor property, but there are better ways if you want more functionality.A …
With the release of Android 6.0, named Marshmallow came various new features runtime permissions being a major change. Before Marshmallow, all the permission required to run an app was granted to the app during installation, and mostly users didn’t know what permissions the app was using as they were all granted during installation. With Android …
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Text Detection using electronic devices link an Android device using an app is also called optical character recognition (OCR). Since it’s inception OCR has come a long way in terms of speed and ease of use, but we still cannot detect handwritten text and accuracy of OCR depends on various factors. Text recognition in Android …
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In this example, we will detect text using an Android app using Tesseract for Android Studio. We can easily do OCR in an android app using Tesseract library. Tesseract for Android can be used as a dependency and you can learn how to setup Tesseract in Android Studio in this tutorial.In this example we will …
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For Real Time text detection in Android, we will be using OpenCV, and to recognize the text in from the detected text region, we will use Tesseract text detection engine for Android. This part deals with the text detection using OpenCV for Android part. In the next part we will recognize the detected text using …
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This post follows from the previous post on setting focus modes in OpenCV using JavaCameraView.In that post, we created a class that extended from JavaCameraView and we defined methods that could be used to set different focus modes. OpenCv for Android Here, we are going to extend the functionality of that class by creating a …
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This post follows from the previous post on Creating a class that extends JavaCameraView. We can use this class to set up focus modes, flash and resolution using openCV for Android. OpenCV for Android It’s pretty simple to find out supported resolutions and set resolution in Android Camera using OpenCV. Just include these methods in …
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