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  Henry Addo 6:58 am on May 17, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: android ( 3 ), release, ushahidi ( 3 )   

  Ushahidi Android app 3.1.6 

  

  Yesterday I successfully pushed a new release of the Ushahidi Android app to the Google Playstore. Big thanks to my colleague @AngieNicoleOD for making a huge social media push for the release. I see two forks on github for both Ushahidi Android and the Ushahidi Java SDK already and @digitalafrican for the awesome feature graphic on the Playstore

  You can read more about the release on the Ushahidi blog — http://goo.gl/YOstp

  I’m all set for the next milestone — http://goo.gl/93a0t. As you may or may not know, this is an open source project. Your contributions are welcome.

   

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  Henry Addo 3:33 pm on May 15, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: android ( 3 ), ushahidi ( 3 )   

  Slated the upcoming release for Ushahidi Android tomorrow. Now the heat is on. Guys expect exciting news tomorrow

   
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  Henry Addo 2:00 pm on March 21, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: android ( 3 ), sms   

  Android Stop Shitting On My Home Screen 

  I don’t know if this is a feature or a bug. When you install an app from the Google play store, it annoyingly creates an app icon on your home screen. This is something I don’t mind dealing with as I organize( categorize) my icons on my home screen, so its easier to drag the icon to the right category. The annoying part happen when let say I forget to organize my icon and I uninstall the app. I expect Android to garbage collect the garbage it created on my home screen but it doesn’t. If I repeatedly uninstall, re install the same app, you can image the mess it creates. Just see the image below to see what I mean.  And oh, when you uninstall the app, and tap on the icons on the home screen, they flash a toast in your face.

  

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    Patrick 6:37 pm on March 23, 2013 Permalink

    Hi,
    it’s configurable!
    Simply open Google Play, then Settings and uncheck “automatically add ….”

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    Henry Addo 8:47 pm on March 23, 2013 Permalink

    I like it that it automatically adds home screen widgets but why multiple widgets for the same app?

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  Henry Addo 12:02 am on March 21, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

  SMSSync v2.0.2 Released 

  

  I just made a new release of SMSSync. For those of you wondering, what in the hell is SMSSync? It’s a product by Ushahidi, which is a free and open source Android application that turns an Android device into an SMS gateway. It forwards the SMS that comes to the device to a configured web service. This is one of my projects at Ushahidi.

  This release has long been coming but I’m happy to announce it’s finally here. You can install it from the Google play store or build it from the github repo.

  The change log has the list of changes from previous releases and the current release. If you’re curious to know what these changes are, take a peek at the change log.

  This is a an open source project. Your contributions are highly encouraged and they will be humbly accepted.