All Things Android

**hazz** · 05-08-2012, 07:46 PM

^^what do your fellow arsenal followers think of you batting for the other team?

**harrybarracuda** · 05-08-2012, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ nice and quiet on that airline, is it? Like being at the Library???

It's absolutely heaving mate, I have to stay in Thailand an extra three days because I can't get a flight back in the nice cabin.

As you can imagine I am distraught.

**harrybarracuda** · 05-08-2012, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by hazz

^^what do your fellow arsenal followers think of you batting for the other team?

Barca? They're our feeder club. We take their kids, turn them into superstars and sell them back at a profit.

**Bettyboo** · 05-08-2012, 08:00 PM

Give me the money, 'Arry, and I'll find a flight on the correct date for you... (do you prefer a stop in Mumbai or Karachi or both?)

**harrybarracuda** · 05-08-2012, 08:10 PM

Actually I remember when GF wet-leased Jet Airways aircraft; they were absolutely top notch in every respect, cabin crew included. I think GF dropped them because it was an embarrassment to their own aircraft.

**Bettyboo** · 05-08-2012, 08:38 PM

^ your GirlFriend must be very rich...

**harrybarracuda** · 05-08-2012, 09:22 PM

That was amusing, been at the Krankies joke book again?

**Albert Shagnastier** · 05-08-2012, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by hazz

^^what do your fellow arsenal followers think of you batting for the other team?

Barca? They're our feeder club. We take their kids, turn them into superstars and sell them back at a profit.

Them days are gone Harry - austerity is here

**harrybarracuda** · 05-08-2012, 09:28 PM

We've always been austere. We only paid 500k for Anelka, sold him for 23.5 million; 500k for Fabregas, sold him for 30 million. 500k for Colin Pates. Ooh, hold on....

**Bettyboo** · 05-08-2012, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

That was amusing, been at the Krankies joke book again?

**harrybarracuda** · 06-08-2012, 03:53 AM

^ I didn't ask you to peel pics off your bedroom ceiling.

**harrybarracuda** · 06-08-2012, 02:09 PM

READ THIS: Cleaning up Microsoft’s Metro mess
Desktop Android? Multi-user Android support is on its way

Summary: Android is great on smartphones and tablets, but it could work on the desktop? One critical missing part has been multi-user support, but thanks to clues in the code we now know that multi-user Android support is on its way.

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | August 5, 2012 -- 19:04 GMT (12:04 PDT)

Multi-user Android is on its way, can the Android desktop be far behind? Your smartphone is your smartphone, your tablet is usually your tablet, but your desktop, well you probably share it sometimes with friends, family, and co-workers. That's one of the reasons why Android, the popular Linux-based device operating system has never been seriously considered for the desktop. Without multi-user support, it's not great for a shared computer. That may be changing. We now know that Google has been slowly introducing multi-user support into Android.

There's never been any question that Android users want multi-user support. A quick look through the Android bug tracker shows that users have been demanding multi-user support since 2011. Ron Amadeo, a writer for Android Police, an online publication dedicated to Android, has dug into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for code for Android 4.0 and 4.1, which was publicly released in early July,, and he's found clues that Android multi-user support is being built into Jelly Bean, Android 4.1. Indeed, some of it is already working today.

Officially, Google tells me that they “don't have anything to announce at this time!” But, while they may not have any announcement, the code speaks for itself.

Amadeo found that the following functions are being set up for multiple-users: “lock screens, installed applications, running applications, application data, default applications, home screen widgets, accounts, syncing, and language.” What's already up and working is a multiple user directory system: /data/systems/users.

Within this directory system he found that user 0, which seems to be present on all Jelly Bean systems, has an "Accounts.db" file. This “is an SQLite database. It contains the accounts listed under the "Accounts" section of settings, in my case, Google and Dropbox. It also contains the full list of every Google service I've ever used, my preferred language, and my authtokens [authentication tokens]. So it looks like accounts and syncing is on a per-user basis now, too.”

In addition, Amadeo found that applications, both those installed by your device vendor and by yourself are storing their data in your user directory. In short, if Google were to introduce multi-user support, third-party application data support is already ready to go.

It's not just Amadeo who's been finding breadcrumbs leading to the conclusion that Android multi-user support is on its way. A programmer who goes by the handle zandwerman112 has published a how-to guide for enabling multi-user support in Jelly Bean. At this time it's very limited, but if can be done.

Other developers are now working on it, and one of them, Chirayu Desai, submitted a patch to AOSP and got a telling response from Amith Yamasani, a Google software engineer. Yamasani turned down the patch writing, “Multi-user feature is not ready for deployment. Bad things will happen if you use it in its current state! This UI [user interface] might change based on designs from our UX [user experience] team. Sorry, we cannot accept your change.”

There's your smoking gun. Google is bringing multi-user support to Android and it's far enough along that they're no longer working on just the background processes, they're also well into the user-interface design. The only real questions now are when and how will Google introduce it.

I strongly suspect we'll see multi-user support introduced in Android 5. Experts expect the new Android to arrive in 2012's 4th quarter. I expect Android 5 to show up on new Android handsets and tablets. I also expect Google to backport it to its wildly popular Nexus 7 tablet.

That will be great for users who share tablets, but what I really wonder if Google will decide to finally offer an Android desktop offering of its own. In particular, I wonder if Google will at long last combine its Chrome OS, which is just the Chrome browser running on a thin-layer of Linux, with Android for a new desktop operating system.

Think about it. Chrome now runs on Android. I like Chromebooks, but for every Chrome OS user there's already hundreds of Android users. At the same time, Microsoft is fumbling its Windows 8 introduction, if ever there was a time for Google to introduce an Android desktop, this is the time.

**Albert Shagnastier** · 06-08-2012, 08:37 PM

So Google bought Motorola. Are we expecting the Mother of all phones or what?

**baldrick** · 06-08-2012, 09:05 PM

google has made nearly a billion USD in net profits from the moto division since they purchased them

**Bogon** · 06-08-2012, 10:00 PM

Where's Harry when you need him?
We need a 2 page cut and paste to back this claim up.

Heaven forbid Betty takes over his mantel and carrys the torch until Harry's return!
Wishing you a safe journey Harry and return soon.

**Bettyboo** · 06-08-2012, 10:24 PM

^ right, who needs some advice, pics, whatever, just say the word, I'm here for you all.

**Dillinger** · 06-08-2012, 10:39 PM

^ Fuck me,

Where's Butterfly

**baldrick** · 07-08-2012, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Fuck me, Where's Butterfly

yes , kwang is correct - TD is getting gayer by the minute

**Bettyboo** · 07-08-2012, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Fuck me, Where's Butterfly

Raving poofter alert...

**Albert Shagnastier** · 07-08-2012, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

google has made nearly a billion USD in net profits from the moto division since they purchased them

ahh I see. I was going to say "Good Fucking Call Google!" but I must of missed that meeting

Nexus phones. Anyone got one?

**Albert Shagnastier** · 09-08-2012, 09:39 PM

Tell you what.

Took my phone into Pantip to Samsung to fix 3 days ago. I reckon the jump from regular phones to smart phones will have as much impact on life as the jump from fixed line phones to mobile phones.

**Albert Shagnastier** · 11-08-2012, 12:40 PM

I have to give it to Samsung. It took 4 days but I just got my phone back looking like new and they charged me 250 bt. Good one Samsung -

**baldrick** · 11-08-2012, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

It took 4 days but I just got my phone back looking like new

the apple faboi's would be in here claiming that samsung copied apple's service if it was not for this bit

and they charged me 250 bt

**Butterfly** · 11-08-2012, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

samsung copied apple's service if it was not for this bit

indeed, apple would have charged 400 THB for it

**nostromo** · 19-08-2012, 06:18 PM

Apple would have charged something like 15k

Did I mention I am with Samsung and free market economy. Samsung makes better hardware at lower cost than apple, apple now only tries to run the court thing

What does Apple REALLY want from Samsung?

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