Posts in Category: Android

YouTube Background for Android 2.2+

I made this app for a friend that wanted to play YouTube videos just to listen it’s audio. So it’s very simple, works by sharing the URL from YouTube video with the app or googleing the video. (for instance: go to google.com and type “YouTube lindsey”.

Unfortunately, google removed this app from google play, so its here now.

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Android Virtual Device (aka AVD) tunning

In order to make the Android emulator run faster and be more responsive, you can configure it to take advantage of hardware acceleration, using a combination of configuration options, specific Android system images and hardware drivers…

My AVD API 18 config have intel processor, 768 RAM + 128MB VM Heap + Host GPU + Intel HAXM
My AVD API 10 config have intel processor, 768 RAM + 128MB VM Heap + Intel HAXM