Quirijn Groot Bluemink | Webprogrammer and Mobile Developer

31/08/2011
by Quirijn
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IP Tools for Android

A, for now, basic networking application specifically made for Android.

This is my first ever “complete” app worthy enough of being published to the Android Market.

The idea behind the app is to have all the necessary networking tools bundles in one simple and intuitive app.

The current capabilities off the app are:

A simple IP calculator, enabling you to view the network, broadcast address etc as well as calculating the amount of host you could have.
A pinging mechanism allowing you to ping IP addresses as well as domain names.
A nslookup mechanism allowing you to find the IP address of a domain or the domain behind an IP.
A WiFi section which allows you to see all the available WiFi networks within range.
- Here you can also view more detailed information about the WiFi networks
- A colour coded chart indicating what channel a WiFi network is on as well as its signal strength.

And here by I conclude the introduction of my very first Android app.

Feel free to download it, test it to its limits and give feedback!

Changelog

v0.4
New feature: Traceroute
New feature: Portscanner
Can now cancel any operation in the diagnostic tools
Changed colour transparency on the WiFi chart
Added new permission to allow new features to work
Bug fixes and UI improvements

v0.3
Now remembers last used values in IP calculator, ping and nslookup
Minor UI improvements
Couple of bug fixes

v0.2
Minor bugfixes

v0.1
Initial release

17/02/2011
by Quirijn
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Changing WAMP port

It took me a while searching the web to find this so I’ll just post it here.
First thing you’d want to do is edit the httpd.conf,
which you can find here:

C:wampbinapacheApache2.2.17conf

In this file you should search for 2 occurrences of “80″

Listen 80
and
ServerName localhost:80

Change the port to the desired port number. You should now be able to navigate to http://localhost:8888/ or whatever port you chose.

If you use the wamp server icon to navigate to the localhost you will see it won’t find it. You have to manually fill in the new port number. To fix that do the following.

Got to the root of your wamp server “C:wamp” in my case, Open the file named “wampmanager.tpl”.

In this file search for “http://localhost/” and add the new port number.

I found mine under “[Menu.Left]” around line 120

Type: item; Caption: “${w_localhost}”; Action: run; FileName: “${c_navigator}”; Parameters: “http://localhost:8888/”; Glyph: 5
Type: item; Caption: “${w_phpmyadmin}”; Action: run; FileName: “${c_navigator}”; Parameters: “http://localhost:8888/phpmyadmin/”; Glyph: 5

As you can see I changed my port number to 8888.

Save it and restart wampserver.

Now if you try to open the localhost through wampserver it should automatically open at the new port

Hope this helps, otherwise just ask

13/12/2010
by Quirijn
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Horoscope Air for Android

So a couple of weeks back we got a task from uni to create an app for Air for Android.

So I got right to it, we had to make a horoscope app that would an RSS feed from a external website.
We had to choose 3 different ones out of the many interesting possibilities . I ended up choosing for the daily horoscope, work horoscope and the financial horoscope.
For the design I opted, as always for a fairly simple design. A title in a mystical sort of font, and a ring made up of the different zodiac signs.

It took some interesting math and programming to dynamically make the ring, but luckily my teacher gave me a hand on that.
I so made it that with a swiping motion you could spin the ring to choose the desired zodiac sign.
Once the user taps on the name the actual horoscope is shown.

Horoscope Feed

First the daily horoscope and again, using a swiping gesture you can navigate between the different horoscopes.

It is a very basic app, and I used some template code that Adobe provided with the Air for Android extension for Flash CS5.

The difficulties I encountered were the ring and the swipe gallery.

With the ring I still have some problems getting a natural movement and the Swipe gallery code is rubbish and rather unresponsive. I found a solution for the latter but had no time to implement it.

Any comments/suggestions are welcome =)

04/10/2010
by Quirijn
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Locationary Android App

For all those that don’t know Locationary, it’s basically a database of all the places and business in the world updated by the local residents. This makes sure that the information of a store for example is always up to date. You can find more information here.

As part of this open community and because of the recent release of the first version of the API I’ve decided to make an application for Android users so that they can add information on the go.

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