I use Google+. It is more active than my Facebook account.

When the code doesn't do what I expect it to do, I pace while I think of a solution.

Or I threaten my computer. it usually works.

messpero90:
IV been trying to deactivate my account for weeks now but the deactivating process is nt working, i will sue seun and all the mods for violating my image and human right according to united nations human right sub session 200, for the last time seun please let me deactivate and wipe off my account or else i will take this matter to the highest level.

Can you describe the process you went through when attempting to deactivate your account?

nnamdiosu:
hey android developers in the house. I just downloaded the android studio software. installed it and off course it starts the one time download of the SDK tools. now I'm developing with eclipse . the problem is my Android studio keeps saying it can find the SDK tools that I installed. pls is anyone working with android studio here? help a brother out

To change your Android Studio's SDK location, right click your android project, select "module settings".
in the resulting window, slick on sdk location. you can set the sdk location from the page to the right location.

The SDK location you set here will be used in subsequent projects you create in Android studio.

OR: you can edit the local.properties file present in your project structure.

Hope this helps.

deraugo:
Tnx, it worked perfectly well. God bless you.

You are welcome.

castsports:
not asking for help when you know you need one.

Haha. you joined. Welcome to NL.

deraugo:
The phone am using is tecno H7.

The drivers are mostly the same.

deraugo:
how can someone test an android application developed in android studio on a techno phone.

you just have to install the device's driver. check here: http://www.driveridentifier.com/scan/tecno-m3/download/1275953136/D812CD445C734DFCB3AB67D334A1AE28/USB%5CVID_0BB4%26PID_0C03%26MI_01

or http://adbdriver.com/downloads/

lillaowow:


Hi, can you help with this python programs.

Create another thread for it and then we will see.

phatjoe50:


As I clearly stated, the App is based on User generated data.
User generated data can't give up to 30% accuracy, the only way to solve the problem is not get data when the device is charging as someone clearly stated here.

By accuracy, I meant that you could tell the user that "Out of 5 sources in an area, 3 of them are using PHCN power". that can of course be replaced with maybe an indicator that changes color depending on the validity of the information.

I hope you can see how that can put information gotten from this app in a better perspective for the user than that given by Nepasituation that only tells the user whether there is power or not.

WhiZTiM:

*Fall's off the Moon* .I have to break my silence on this one... . . ...Ingenious!

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Great idea. Simple anonymous beacons for electricity. . .
I think, when you plug your phone, the App should ASK 'every' time whether or not You want to share power source... <<The App should naturally have a bias for "No">>
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Funjosh, I will get back to you when I get to the moon.

I think asking every Time will break user experience. We can choose to steadily remind the user of their choice in the notification drawer.

phatjoe50:


I know of an App like that when I participated for the MTN developer challenge.

The name of the App is NepaSituation

Search for it on nexva.com

The App is based on user generated data.

Oh.. Yeah. I just saw it. Thanks.

It is quite similar But not the same to what this project will achieve.
NepaSituation was built for a different purpose. To predict power outage. So, installing the app didn't offer much to the user. I mean, the app can't even tell me if my favorite places have power or not.

And it is vague. if the app is to tell me a place has power, it should at least tell me how accurate the data it is giving me is.

kaboninc:


Lol. Firstly the app will target different platforms. But if for the more common platforms like the Android, then there would be no need for a refresh. That in itself consumes power.

Maybe you should be specific on how you think the app will know if the barber's shop or supermarket store or friends house has electricity if maybe the phones are switched off and charging.

The need for refreshing means the app will run in the background and using the necessary amount of power just like any other app that does background processing on your device.

In android there are APIs to detect if a device is being charged. However, I don't think apps run when a phone is switched off. the aim of the app isn't to just detect if your phone is charging but to also share that it is charging to other users. A phone that is switched off can't do that.

kaboninc:
I do not think this project is specific in nature and can meet a specific need. If my battery is down and no light, I can go to the nearest barber's shop or super market store or baba ijebu shop to charge my battery.

Else I can call my friend with the remaining power (as the app will exhaust that last battery power before connecting).

The app will be redundant if it has to wait for you to refresh it in-order to get the data you need.
instead of calling your friend or having to walk to the nearest supermarket or the barber shop, the app might already have something like this for you:

Kaboninc's barber: No light.
Kaboninc's supermarket: No light.
Kaboninc's friend: has light.

but of course, nothing beats going to those locations and verifying them yourself.

The goal of this project might appear fuzzy right now but that is why this thread exists. To fine tune the goal.

Funjosh:
Why not build and application that will automaticaly charge device once the battery is down.

I am too dumb to be able to successfully build such application.

Appguru:
@lordZOUGA

Nice Idea.
What if the user is making use of a power bank?

nice insight. I think that can be identified.

It is not advisable to give away user location (lattitude & longitude). You may have troubles with google play. And also for security reasons.

I will advice you settle for street name or a certain radius.

I agree with you here. The specific location might be too insecure for the users.

BTW I would love to contribute. (Android, maybe J2ME, web app(API))

This is great. you are the first developer to sign up.

Caracta:
1. What would happen to this app if the next president decide to fix power failure problem (that's a dream anyway)?

Well, it might stop being very useful in this country but I don't think Nigeria is the only country that has power problems

2. To use this app, I must have a phone and perhaps data plan, right? That means I must have some level of battery left before I can use the app and run to "uj sizzle's" house to charge my phone. Saves me some litres of fuel. Me likey

yeah, it needs internet. if your battery runs low, the app will send you a notification with the nearest location to charge your phone.

3. Does that mean any random person(s) can be directed to my house to stalk me, steal my generator or maliciously cut off my power source because they don't enjoy same? (Bad belle thingz)

That doesn't seem alright. Users will be allowed the option of giving less precise locations like street names or maybe even town names. This might reduce the efficiency of the service but I can't think of a way to bypass that problem currently.

Or A way to share your power status to specific users can be created but that's a secondary feature, I think and should be considered only when the primary aim has been achieved.

4. Good idea I must confess. I'm only concerned about the security breach. Or do you have a way around it?

Again, nice one. Very brilliant.

I am glad that you think that . Like I explained above, the security problem can be resolved to an extent but the app will be very useful.

Seun:
Will those supplying the power be paid?

That should ultimately depend on who the app directed you to and how you approached them.
although ideally, it will be preferable the owner of the power source does not charge unless it is the person's business.

If the the app directs someone to my house and the person is rude, I will probably decline or charge just for the sake of it.

losprince:
Cool idea, but individual power locations sounds weird. Unless u will only make only power available in a central location known, like nepa.

I think you might have misunderstood the aim of this project. what this project will try to accomplish is to help people know the nearest place with power close to them. be it PHCN or Generator.

Hopefully, using this app, you will not have to chat people up to ask them "Do you have light?" or You want to move to a new location but you aren't sure how frequent PHCN supplies power to that area, You use this app and check that or you are on the move or stranded but your battery is low and you need to recharge immediately, this might direct you to a power source. (might be someone's house but if you really need to charge, you will find a way. )

jajad:


I'm not sure I understand. How does one access this power?

The solution I have in mind is an app that shares the device's location whenever the device running the app starts charging. That's what I mean by power.

So once a location is shared, it will now be shown to other users of the app. This can be a visualization using a map or a compass like view pointing in the direction of the shared location.

Going to the location is up to the user. Doing that depends on the distance the user is to this source of power

you understand now?

We don't have steady power in this country, this implies that we don't always have power when we need it. But an app like this will help us find power even if we don't have it.

That is a step in the direction of having power all the time. If you can't get the power, you go to it.

The data to be used for this will be crowd sourced of course. It will take time to build up the data but that should not be an issue.

The data will be open-sourced and so is this project. I think.

From what I can see, there is no reason not to build this app.

What do you think? or Who is interested in developing it?

helloBae:
When you start with Cms frameworks instead of writing code at first.

This is probably akin to using code with no knowledge on how it works.

Appguru:
@lordZOUGA

I see you just made my post on that thread visible.

Why I did not contact you (mods)?
Well within the past two weeks, I have contacted the mods at least 6 times. (Is not as if, I am getting paid for this posts or potential clients)
- Post a link to http://code [d0t] google [d0t] com/ ...[opensource project] (instant ban! ) 24 hours
- Post a link to http://www [d0t] apache [d0t] org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 [dot] html ... (instant ban! ) 24 hours
All this links are for reference purposes!

Please Oo! this is not an attempt to ridicule/belittle your office and the platform. What I have put up there are my experiences.

Dude, I don't think you have been banned for any of those reasons.

pcguru1:
That's because Programming section is dead on NL, its all about HTML,CSS now. we've tried to revive it but no response

Your posts were very much appreciated man. what do you mean by "no response"?

which language do you want to perform this action in? or are you looking for an already made program?

connect to sftp.
check if you have write permissions on the local path (basically create a file and see if you succeeded).
get file from network and write to the locally created file
delete file.

CodeHouse:


No it isn't and I'm not saying you should come up here to create topics everyday..there are topics that draws participation, topics that each member's contributions will add to the knowledge of other members, I am saying moderators should not just sit and watch the progamming section stay boring or dull, I am saying there are ways to incite value and more participation to this section.

I am not here to fight anyone, it is just my observation, you can decide to act if you wish, it still doesn't change anything.

One problem is that you guys don't handle criticism so well, that's another reason I also think some sections don't do well, cos members are scared of being suspended till "2080" when a flag is raised. "2080" when telepathy would have taken the world.

I think at this point, I've registered my thoughts.

but nobody is fighting you. I was just pointing out how your input can also help promote this section.

You don't get banned if you post code on this section. This is the programming section, it is logical for you to post code here.

if you got banned, sorry about that but you should have alerted the mods to what happened instead of coming to your own conclusions. Appguru.

CodeHouse:


Laughs, You are not following

I am following. If you are really interested in making the programming section active, you can start by creating the topics yourself. it is not as if topic creation ability is limited to the moderators alone

Codehouse, do you want to make a time machine?

There have been posts about how to learn programming which featured some pretty good tips on how to learn programming.

So, what are the worst ways of learning programming?. Your tip might help someone choose the right method by process of elimination.

I can think of: Reading a lot of books and not actually practicing. This leads you into a false notion of believing you can actually do all the things you read correctly on first try. Destroy that notion. You have to practice.

CodeHouse:

What kind of things should be happening in order for someone to accurately say that something is going on in this section?

Are you affiliated with jumia?
If you are, Why do you use gmail as your mail service provider and not something more official like Jumia's mail provider. Jumia has one.