How to fix Nexus 4 power button issue
A darling among Google’s Nexus lineup of devices, one that actually created waves by selling at an atrociously low unlocked price in the US (where people are only ever used to buying phones with...
How to customize Android security using SEAndroid
Security Enhancements for Android (SEAndroid) Android has added some new features to the 4.4 version of the Android OS ("Kitkat"). The most important change among the new features is the...
Guide: Using CoCos2D for Android on Intel Architecture
Cocos2D is a game engine that works with various devices from PCs to smart phones. This engine supports the vast majority of the features needed to make wonderful 2D-based games; it even includes a fu...
How to setup the peer to peer connection between two Android devices
Introduction Android* applications may require a peer-to-peer connection between two or more Android* devices without a Wi-Fi access point or Internet access. Two examples of this are file sharing...
How to port the Android Bullet Physics Engine to Intel Architecture
Introduction Mobile games with stunning graphics and realistic physics are now possible due to the increasing compute power now available on mobile devices. Effects such as grenade explosions in sh...
Case Study: Deliveing an immersive gaming experience for Intel based hybrid devices
Abstract Tencent wanted to give gamers the best experience on Intel® Ultrabook™ and 2 in 1 systems. Legend of Xuan Yuan was already a successful game, but these systems provided Tencent w...
Case Study: Optimizing Cyberlink PowerDVD to improve battery life on Intel devices
Introduction Low battery life is one of the most serious issues currently plaguing mobile devices in general and Ultrabook™ devices and tablets specifically. Users have become accustomed to s...
How to use Parallel Programming with C#
Multicore processors have been around for many years, and today, they can be found in most devices. However, many developers are doing what they've always done: creating single-threaded programs....
Create a music App with touch, stylus & keyboard control for Windows 8 tablets
Introduction When Dmitriy Golonanov, the CEO of the international company, Maestro Music Software, learned that many musicians would rather use a lightweight tablet than carry a laptop to gigs or a...
How to optimize multimedia & augmented reality Android apps for Intel platform
Most Android applications, even those based only on scripting and managed languages (Java*, HTML5,...) eventually use middleware features that would benefit from optimization. This article willl di...
How to use Intel INDE Media Pack for Android to add video capturing capability for Unity Apps
This tutorial explains how to use Intel® INDE Media Pack for Android* to add video capturing capability to Unity applications. Prerequisites: Unity 4.3.0. Capturing works as a fullscreen...
How to use the Intel GPA System Analyzer to Improve performance of Android Apps
Mobile applications can behave differently between emulator and device and, as an app grows more and more complex, debugging performance bottlenecks can become extremely difficult. The GPA System Anal...
Tutorial: How to implement H.265/HEVC for Intel Atom Based Android Platforms
The H.265/HEVC standard is becoming more and more popular in the mobile market. Online video providers, mobile Internet users, and broadcast/TV operators are the beneficiaries of this new video revolu...
How to use Native Library Compression SDK for Android apps
Android apps are typically written in Java* because of its elegant object-oriented design and the fact that the Android Software Development Kit (Android SDK) provides cross-platform features in Java....
How to use Intel Cilk Plus to speed up your Android application
Intel(R) CilkTM Plus is a set of language extension of Intel(R) compiler, which can help to quickly and easily implement parallelism and vectorization for C/C++ code. You may refer to its m...
How to get started with OpenCL on Android OS
OpenCL™ Basic Tutorial for Android* OS provides guidelines on using OpenCL in Android applications. The tutorial is an interactive image processing Android application. The main focus for...
How to implement Gesture Sequences in Unity 3D game engine via TouchScript framework
When configuring touch targets to control other elements of a scene, it’s important to minimize the screen space that the controlling elements occupy. In this way, you can devote more of the Ult...
How to use Intel Perceptual Computing to develop engaging apps
Introduction This article discusses the development of Clifford’s Reading Adventures, a series of interactive educational games for young children from Scholastic Interactive LLC. T...
How to choose the right engine for your x86-based Android game
The fact that games are your best bet for getting a healthy and quick response you your Android app on Google Play Store. While gaming apps do score the highest in terms of downloads, popularity and a...
How to create sample codes for Video 3D on Android
In Android, it is very easy to create an app that can play video clips; it is also easy to create a game app with 3D graphic surface. But it is not straightforward to create an app that can play...
How to test your Android apps on Intel devices using third-party services
More and more Android devices have Intel Inside. Besides getting your hands on Intel-based Android devices to test your apps and make sure they deliver the best experience for your users, there are se...
How to Implement map and geofence features in Android business apps
Here's a guide on how to integrate map and geolocation features into an Android business app. This guide specfically tells you on how to includes overlaying store locations on Google Maps*, using...
How to use Intel WiDi technology to project your App onto a bigger screen
This post is to help you learn on how to use Intel WiDi technology to project/beam your app onto a bigger screen (TV, Laptop, Monitor). We will be using the example of an app named "Grace" f...
How to Optimize Your Android Apps (NDK) in Two Minutes on Intel Architecture
I’m Jean-Claude Cottier, a video game industry veteran. I’ve been working in this field for the last 18 years and in 2008, I’ve setup my own solo game studio: Ovogame. Recently,...
How to Develop an Intelligent Autonomous Drone using an Android Smartphone
Introduction Playing with small civilian drones is fun. Building them is even better! For those of you who are interested in developing your own “smart” drone, this article provides...
How to use Intel VTune Amplifier 2014 for Systems on a Dell Venue 8
Introduction Intel® VTune™ Amplifier 2014 for Systems is part of the Intel® System Studio suite of tools supporting both the mobile and embedded markets. This article will demon...
How to Set Up an NDK Project to Compile for Multiple Target Platforms
Golden Hammer Software took a trip earlier this year to New York to attend the Intel Android CodeFest. We updated Big Mountain Snowboarding, Trick Shot Bowling, and Scribble Worm to run natively...
Guide: How To Implement native Intel x86 Support for Android Apps to boost performance
My name is Antonio De Falco, and I am the creator of the game Planet Conqueror. Having graduated from University as a Game-Designer, I found myself inclined to develop games that are easy to get into...
How to setup a surveillance system for your business
While the title might set off alarm bells for some of you folks it isn’t that bad an idea to have eyes on everything and everyone all the time. Surveillance is sometimes a necessity and sometime...
How to create your own TOR url
Sometimes when you need a website which isn’t public and you wish to share it with a select few. At such times you can easily get an URL with a .onion TLD. With your computer as the server you a...
How to create your own lyrics video
As the name suggests, lyric videos are those in which the words to the song are the main element of the video. The fundamental reason behind making lyric vi...
How to become a cyber-forensics expert
Cyber Forensics (or ‘Digital Forensics’) deals with evidence found on computers and digital storage media that’s related to crime scene investigations. If the idea of tracing back a...
How to listen to free music online through scrobbling
Yes, we are well aware that scrobbling has been around for the past decade. No, we aren’t just reminiscing. Scrobbling has re-entered our radar with Last.fm’s newest project – Buggle...
How to become a social media star
Break-up diva Taylor Swift has over 52 million Twitter followers – a world record – with pop icon (for lack of a better word) Justin Bieber coming in at No.2 with just over 51 million Twit...
How to build your own app
Having an App available for any service adds a tremendous value for the same and it isn’t the domain of programmers anymore. However, without any programming knowledge whatsoever, you aren&rsquo...
How to migrate to an Android smartphone from any OS
If you own an Android device, then you probably owned something else sometime before. If you owned any other device, your biggest regret could be the fact that you couldn’t transfer all your dat...
How to upgrade your laptop HDD to a SSHD in 30 minutes
You now know the benefits of picking an SSHD over a normal HDD but what if you’ve already got a laptop or if you are about to buy one and your seller isn’t giving you the option of a SSHD...
How to host your websites on Google Drive
Almost everyone who owns a computer also owns at least one website these days. Be it personal or professional. There are a number of hosting services available on the web for us to host our websites b...
How to control your TV and DTH with the Samsung Galaxy S5
The Galaxy S5 includes an IR blaster port, while some may think that it is an old technology, Samsung has found a very useful way to utilize it. The IR blaster port along with Samsung’s WatchOn...
How to speed up and tweak Chrome browser performance on mobile devices
When it comes to choosing a browser for your android device, chrome is a no-brainer. Here are a few tips to make your experience even better: Preload webpages Chrome can help you render webpages f...
How to plan the best April Fools' day prank
Considering this is April, the most obvious thing to do this month would be to sharpen your funny bone and hone your 'pranking' technique. A good prank is like making lasagne. You need layers of past...
How to disable Charms bar hint in Windows 8/8.1
The latest operating system by Microsoft has a built in navigation bar called charms which provides quick access to settings, devices, search and sharing functions. But this bar can be a pain sometime...
How to save money on your Android phone by switching it to 2G-only mode
Recently I was low on battery and needed to conserve it. So I decided to switch to 2G instead of 3G to save some precious minutes of battery. Also, I wanted to limit the data packets being sent and re...
How to expand your Steam experience
In the last 12 years since Steam came into existence it has become a name synonymous with the world of gaming in its entirety. Taking a step into the Steamworld, we published an article sometime back...
How to stop Android apps from updating automatically
When I recently got an Android device, the first thing that I did was install lots of applications on it. Later, when I was out, I kept my device connected to the internet on my 3G connection and didn...
How to set internet data limit on Android phones and Tablets
Big internet bills can be a pain, especially when it comes to Android (which has tons of applications that keep using web services in the background). You cannot stop these applications from doing so...
How to use new Gmail Inbox to organize mails
Google has introduced an easy way to handle your email with a revamped inbox in Gmail. In its new avatar, Gmail inbox provides a hassle-free way to manage, sort and organize your email. Email inboxes...
How to creat stunning visualisations using R
What is data visualisation? Put simply, data visualisation is the pictorial representation of data. Any data set can be understood at a glance by representing it on interactive charts and graphs. Thi...
How to directly download YouTube videos
Youtube-dl is a fantastic little command line utility that lets you download videos from YouTube and a couple of other video hosting sites. Although the command line interface is off-putting at first,...
How to improve productivity using free software tools
Too many distractions can bring down your productivity, but so can boredom, a whole pile of brainless and repetitive tasks and so on and so forth. Here we’ve compiled a list of apps and Chrome e...