Category Archives: Android

Notes on Android Graphics and Animations

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This post contains my notes on the Youtube Video “Learn about Android Graphics & Animations from Google’s Android UI Toolkit Team” which shows a talk given by Romain Guy and Chet Haase from Google at the San Francisco Android User Group, Nov 20th 2010. Note that at the time of writing the video is already quite old, but much of it is still relevant and it’s well worth a watch for anybody interested in working with graphics in Android. This post is partly for me to remember and refer back to, but hopefully others will find it useful. The video is embedded below and notes can be found after the break:

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Sending photos to a Python web server with Android

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I recently involved in a project where we performed some computer vision object recognition and classification using neural networks and SVMs. It was necessary to use photos taken from an Android phone and it took a little while to get it working. Below is the solution I used, which involved creating a tiny Android application that took a photo, Base64 encoded it, then sent the data over HTTP POST to a Python BaseHTTPRequestHandler subclass which decoded the file and wrote it to disk.

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