Android Studio and Emulators. I try to occasionally make my own app in Android Studio to earn some extra money, unfortunately this has not been successful yet and I probably missed the train nowadays. I wanted to try one of my Android applications on an emulator, but I got the following error message: An emulator … Continue reading FIX: PANIC: HOME is defined but could not find Emulator file in $HOME\.android\avd
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Install Android in Hyper-V by Bas Wijdenes
Android emulators VS Android in Hyper-V. I tried to use Bluestacks as an Android Emulator. This application was only very often slow and the advertisements were also annoying. I then switched to the Visual Studio Emulator, but here too I ran into things like ‘just install a new app’. Because almost all Android Emulators are … Continue reading Install Android in Hyper-V by Bas Wijdenes
Mute tabs in Chrome by Bas Wijdenes
Chrome, tabs, and disturbing sounds. If you are like me, you open dozens of tabs in Google Chrome within 5 minutes. Some websites have an automatic pop-up advertisement video that often starts loading after 10 to 20 seconds. Usually the sound is loud and that is very disturbing. And then it is often difficult to … Continue reading Mute tabs in Chrome by Bas Wijdenes
FIX: Sorry we were unable to save your configuration Adsense WordPress
Summary I have reviewed this blog post and I no longer think that the content is very relevant, but because this post has been popular and some may still use the Google Publisher plugin, I keep the blog post for now. The plugin itself has been removed and can therefore no longer be downloaded. I … Continue reading FIX: Sorry we were unable to save your configuration Adsense WordPress
How to Disable shortcut home screen Android by Bas Wijdenes
Disable shortcuts from automatically being added to the home screen. After you install an application from the Google Play Store you automatically get a shortcut icon on your home screen so that you can easily open the application. This can be useful, but if you, like me, install a lot of applications at a given … Continue reading How to Disable shortcut home screen Android by Bas Wijdenes
How to add HTML to an Android Application with Android Studio by Bas Wijdenes
Adding HTML to Android applications the basics. After developing an application you often get questions from users. You solve this by creating a FAQ or Help component in your Application. For these components you can use HTML in your Android application. You can add HTML in Android Studio by creating an assets folder and inserting … Continue reading How to add HTML to an Android Application with Android Studio by Bas Wijdenes
FIX: Disable wifi networks available notification Android by Bas Wijdenes
There are Wi-fi networks Available! Do you ever go to a festival and do you always get the Wi-Fi networks available notification? Very frustrating because you think that it is a message. How can this report be useful anyway? Well, if you are in a public location like a library that has a public wi-fi you … Continue reading FIX: Disable wifi networks available notification Android by Bas Wijdenes
How to remove Outlook from Android by Bas Wijdenes
Option to Uninstall Outlook is grayed out in Android. You can’t just remove Outlook from Android because it is installed as a device administrator. During the installation of Outlook and configuring your mail, the Outlook Application asks if it can be a ‘Device Administrator’. If you choose ‘no’ then the setup is canceled. If you … Continue reading How to remove Outlook from Android by Bas Wijdenes
How to remove the background from Google Ads by Bas Wijdenes
Google Adsense Ads and their default background ‘ins’. When you implement Google Adsense ads in your website Adsense gives a number of css values to the advertisements.One of these values is ‘ins’, ins sets the background-color for the ad blocks. Ins means ‘insterted’. Most CMSes such as WordPress have a default background color for ins, … Continue reading How to remove the background from Google Ads by Bas Wijdenes
How to use the Google Open Sans font in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes
Google web fonts in WordPress. Google has its own web fonts and one of these fonts is Open Sans. Personally, I think this is one of the most professional looks on the internet. I also like to use Google Open Sans on my WordPress sites. As usual, you can easily use the Open Sans font … Continue reading How to use the Google Open Sans font in WordPress by Bas Wijdenes