Cell Phones : [ Galaxy Nexus™ (Sprint) ]

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Android™ 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich for unlimited potential and more control

Transform Your Android Device into a Powerful Linux Machine with ZShaolin

As many of you undoubtedly know, Android is built atop the Linux kernel. This means that most of the commands known from Linux can be used in terminal emulator or adb shell. It’s a limited list, however, as Linux offers a more extensive stock set of commands as well as easily addable external modules.

Unfortunately, Android doesn’t support so many commands, but this can be easily changed thanks to XDA Forum Member jaromil.rojo, who ported the ZSh to Android. ZSh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language. It gives an ability to use a lot of external commands on our device. As of now ZShaolin supports following projects:

• FFMpeg to convert, decode and encode audio and video files


• ImageMagick to convert and manipulate all image formats


• Sox to manipulate and convert audio files


• OggZ for the manipulation of DRM free audio/video (Ogg/Vorbis/Theora)


• LUA scripting language


• GNU Awk, Sed, Grep and the awesome Z-Shell

And smaller tools like:

• Vim and Emacs advanced text editors with syntax highlight and more


• Git distributed version control to keep track of documents


• Rsync to reliably move large files across the network


• SSh Secure Shell to remotely log into on-line servers


• The Midnight Commander file manager and Lynx textual web browser


• GnuPG to encrypt, decrypt and sign files and messages


• Lighttpd to serve files and HTML pages off your device

As you can see, it’s a powerful tool that allows you to do things such as push your repo to Github or even decode a movie on Android. Everything can be done on an unrooted device, which makes this app even cooler. Jaromil.rojo compiled the app by using his own toolchains, but the project is open source, so everyone can build it and add his or her own code contributions. Most of the features are available in free version, which lacks binaries for ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Vim fully featured, Emacs, RSync, and more ASCII games. If you want to use ZShaolin for those services, consider supporting the developer with the premium version.

ZShaolin is a small, but yet powerful application. So if you are looking for a tool to give you access to many services on your Android device, make your way to the application thread and get the newest APK.

Cell Phones : [ Samsung Transfix™ (Cricket) Android Smartphone ]

Android™ 2.3, Gingerbread + 800 MHz processor

Cell Phones : [ Samsung Repp™ (Generic CDMA) Android Smartphone ]

Customize with Android™ 2.3, Gingerbread and a full range of Google™ services

Tasker Extension on the Sony SmartWatch 2

For many, Tasker is a big part of their smartphone or smart-gadget experience, offering the flexibility to perform a wide range of tasks with simplicity and ease. In fact, it’s usefulness and practicality has been covered numerous times on the XDA Portal and video series.

With this in mind, it’s obvious that the next logical step in the Tasker journey is integration with the smartwatch world. This is especially true, considering the increasing amount of rumours in the past year of big OEMs working on ‘the next big thing,’ and with Sony and Samsung both releasing their own take on the wearable device concept, namely the Sony Smartwatch 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Gear.

One example of this is the Tasker extension for the Sony Smartwatch 2 developed by XDA Forum Member babanomania. Once installed on your connected phone or tablet, the app allows you to conveniently see the Tasker tasks you have on your device, as well as execute them with only a couple simple swipes and taps—very useful, especially when on a watch. The extension is open source as well, so you can tinker with it if you feel the extension is missing something.

If you would like to give this a whirl, check out the original thread for more information.

Cell Phones : [ Galaxy Note™ II Protective Cover +, WHITE ] Galaxy Note™ II Protective Cover +, WHITE

“Free 5 pack of TecTiles with purchase (a $14.99 value) will be added to your order automatically”





The Galaxy Note II Protective Cover Plus case is a precision designed cell phone case that protects the device without sacrificing style. Galaxy cases also feature one of the sleekest android phone case designs, allowing for both function and fashion.

Also available in: Black , Pink

Skate to Where the Puck Is Going

Businesses implementing Android apps can learn from what Web developers have done to handle browser variations, to handle the similar variations in Android OS versions. In this first post of a three-post series, we will examine what Web developers have done to simplify their development efforts and what the Android analogues are.