How To Take Screenshots On GalaxyNote5

Taking a screenshot on your phone is one of its most basic functions, but the Galaxy Note 5 has a trick up its sleeve that helps it go well beyond a standard one-screen capture. Though you still have two simple ways to take a regular full-screen screenshot to share or keep for yourself, there's also a new option called "scrolling capture" that lets you automatically stitch together multiple screenshots into a full scrollable and editable image. Here's how it works.

There's no shortage of situations where taking a simple screenshot is useful, whether you're showing something to a friend, saving a quick piece of information or troubleshooting an issue. There are two ways on the Note 5 to take a standard screenshot.

With a key combination:

1. Open the content you wish to screenshot.
2. At the same time, press and hold both the power button and home button for two seconds.
3. You'll see the screen briefly flash, and a notification appear.
4. Check your notifications, where you'll see the screenshot and an option to share, edit or delete it.

With a palm swipe:

1. Open the content you wish to screenshot.
2. Place your hand vertically along the left or right edge of your Note 5, and swipe in from that edge with your hand touching the screen.
3. You'll see the screen briefly flash, and a notification appear.
4. Check your notifications, where you'll see the screenshot and an option to share, edit or delete it.
5. (Optional) If this method doesn't work, check Settings > Motion and gestures to enable it.

Use Android Device Manager's Guest Mode To Find Your Friend's Phone

Android: If you're not using the Android Device Manager to help find your lost phone, we highly recommend it. What happens when you actually lose your phone, though? Thanks to a guest mode in the Android app, you can use your friend's phone to find your own.

The Android Device Manager app allows you to quickly locate, lock, or wipe your other devices. However, you can also use the guest mode to allow someone else to quickly log in and find their device. This makes it much easier to help a friend find their phone, as the only alternative is to log in to their own account from a laptop, which may not be as easily accessible. In any case, if you're not using ADM to track your phone in case of an emergency, it's highly recommended you set it up .

Google has historically left the responsibility of device protection to third parties. Over the last year, however, the company has introduced and beefed up the Android Device Managerm which allows you to remotely locate, lock, wipe, or ring the device. It's not a perfect security system, but it's the minimum everyone should have.

You don't actually have to install anything on an Android device just to track it. You can enable it in your Google settings here. However, if you have multiple Android devices, you can install the Device Manager app to locate one from the other. For example, if you have your phone on you, but can't find your tablet, you can use ADM to ring your tablet, even if it's on silent.

Google Rolled Out Simpler, Faster, and a More Beautiful Update to Hangouts Android App

Google finally released an update to it’s Hangouts app for Android, 2 months after it was spotted with a refreshed appearance. The firm revealed the update in a blog post, stating August 10 as the roll out date.

On the visual front, the update adds a more material design and fluid transitions. Other enhancements include a simplified sharing, streamlined contacts list, improved battery consumption, better performance, and bug fixes. Furthermore, voice support for Hangouts now allows users to reply to group MMS messages on phone and use the app on Android wear using voice commands.

Along with these, Google added back the custom status message feature. An update to Hangouts Dialer for Android now shows Outbound Caller ID, showing actual number of the dialer instead of the ‘Unknown’ title.

It was believed that Hangouts app for Android has been shunned by Google for its Messenger app. However, this update denies the belief, while improving performance, battery consumption, and adding a materialistic appearance as well as ability to respond to messages on Android Wear using voice.

Source : http://www.phonedog.com/2015/08/10/hangouts-40-android-rolling-out-today-material-design-faster-performance

Sparkling Future With "Small Bussiness Applications".

The Latest Research of “451 Research” is focusing on the emerging technology name small business applications. This research is generated by the data gathered from 145 vendors that participate across four business segments including 50 Marketing Automation participants, 29 Social Media Monitoring & Management participants, 65 Enterprise Collaboration & Communication participants and 22 Web Experience Management vendors. These applications will increase by the size 2.5X in market and are expected to hit $37 billion by 2019.

Small business applications are blessing to all kind of businesses, especially to small and medium scale businesses. These are desktop and mobile applications that let you connect with your co-workers, write down the daily tasks, share all the project processing with your team members, deal with your customers and have a look at your monthly or yearly planning. These application provide you awesome graphical user interface and facilities like video calling, file transfer, cloud storage (up to some memory limit) and gives you a reminder about your agendas and daily meetings. The benefits of using these apps are unlimited but here I am going to mention a few of them that will give you a clue why these applications are imperative for your business:

• You can do meetings from anywhere at any time.
• You can maintain attendance of your employees through these apps.
• You can maintain daily progress report through these apps.
• You can share your agenda, deadline and daily task through a common platform.

Whether it is spread sheet, virtual meeting or any kind of meeting reminder you can totally really on these apps.
After reading the basic advantages of these apps, you might be thinking of owning one of them. Now some questions might be floating in your mind like, from where I can purchase or get these apps? Don’t worry; there are many well reputed IT development companies that do have expertise in this field of development. These companies develop custom base application as per the requirement of your business. Don’t panic if you don’t have any idea about the basic functioning of these devices, these companies have a counseling cells that guide you about the general features of these apps and what features can be added on . So what are you waiting for, go and get these apps to give a gigantic start to your business. 

Android App Testing: BluePrint

Automated testing of Android applications should be part of any developer's workflow. However putting all the testing-related bits and pieces together can be challenging at times. To improve this experience you must visit a brand-new template project called the Android Testing Blueprint (ATBP).

In a nutshell the ATBP is a Github repository which contains a template for end-to-end integration of Google’s testing frameworks and tools. This repository will make it easy to get you started with test integration in existing and new projects. It will also help you master more advanced configurations like Modules, Flavors and ProGuard.

ATBP is available now on the android-testing-templates repository on Github. After cloning the repository please make sure you look at the “Getting Started Guide” first to get a glimpse of the project structure and how to run tests for each module.

Have fun and Happy Testing

Android Testing Templates on Github - https://github.com/googlesamples/android-testing-templates

Fingerprint Sensors in Android Phones Easier to Hack Than Apple's Touch ID

Many of the Researchers have found major security vulnerabilities in the Android smartphones that come with fingerprint scanners. Security firm FireEye's researchers have devised four different attacks that could extract user fingerprints from Android smartphones, and claim the technology is more vulnerable than Touch ID implemented by Apple.

FireEye researchers Tao Wei and Yulong Zhang have revealed major vulnerabilities in fingerprint scanner-powered Android smartphones. One such attack is "fingerprint sensor spying" which can "remotely harvest fingerprints in a large scale," the researchers told ZDNet.

Smartphones like the HTC One Max and Samsung's Galaxy S5 that sport a fingerprint scanner don't fully lock down the sensor, the researchers note. The sensor in these phones are protected by only "system" level privilege instead of "root", making it easier for an attacker to find a workaround. The affected vendors were notified, and have since provided patches for the issue.

It wasn't very long ago when Android smartphone manufacturers started to add fingerprint sensors on their handsets. The technology which is largely similar to iPhone and iPad's Touch ID, makes it easier to unlock a smartphone. Zhang however says the iPhone Touch ID sensor is "quite secure" since it encrypts the fingerprint data it gleans from the sensor. He added, "Even if the attacker can directly read the sensor, without obtaining the crypto key, [the attacker] still cannot get the fingerprint image."

Only a select number Android handsets have this technology, however. Google introduced official support for fingerprint scanners with Android M, which releases later this year.

Any vulnerability in the fingerprint scanners is crucial because of their nature of operating with sensitive details. The fingerprint sensors - in addition to unlocking a screen and enabling users to quickly login to their accounts - have also been used for authentication in mobile wallets and banking features. If the data gets in the wrong hands, it could leave devastating results on the victim.

This isn't the first time a vulnerability has been found in the fingerprint scanner of an Android smartphone. Last year, a German firm named H Security had found a way to fool the Galaxy S5's sensors to get access to it using a "dummy" finger.

Earlier this year, Wei and Zhang had found another vulnerability in the same Samsung flagship smartphone. The handset encrypts the data and stores it into a secure zone, however, researchers had found a way to create a copy of the data before it could store and lock down the information.

Razer Serval Brings Console Controls to Android Gaming

Back at this year's CES, we saw Razer's solution to making Android games easier to play — and now you can actually buy it. The Razer Serval Bluetooth gaming controller is available now on Google Play for $79.

The gamepad essentially frees your hands from the screen of your smartphone by putting physical controls at your fingertips. The Serval looks much like a regular console controller, with two analog sticks, a direction pad, four buttons on the front and four shoulder buttons. At the top is a holster where you can attach your Android smartphone to use as your main display. When we went hands-on with the device at CES, we were impressed by its solid build and stylish design

In addition to making it easier for you to play Android games on the go, the Serval is part of Razer's Forge TV set-top box system. The gamepad connects via USB or Bluetooth to a Forge hub, and lets you play Android games on your TV.

Razer's new controller seems ideal for anyone who wants play Android games on the big screen via Forge, as well as those who want console-style controls on the go. The peripheral maker recently purchased Android console company Ouya, suggesting that it might be looking to make an even bigger push towards living room gaming in the future.

Chrome beta previews custom tabs, improved media controls for Android

Back at I/O, Google previewed a few new items in Chrome. More specifically, it detailed a tool called custom tabs. Basically, it'll allow app developers employ a pop-out browser window for link previews inside their apps instead of booting you elsewhere. Those custom tabs are part of the Chrome Beta 45 for Android that arrived this week at Google Play. What's more, the in-app browser of sorts also keeps all of your saved info from Chrome handy (log-ins, etc.) so that you don't keep typing them in. The beta also includes updated media playback controls and Bookmarks interface. You can nab the software via the source link below if you're itchin' for access before the official release.

Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 should be an evolutionary upgrade

Still wondering what Samsung is going to unveil at its August 13th event? Well-known tipster Evan Blass (aka @evleaks) might have just removed what few doubts are left. He not only posted official-looking snapshots of both the Galaxy Note 5 and its curvier S6 Edge+ sibling, but revealed purported specs for the Note 5. From all indications, at least the Note 5 is going to be more of a refinement (at least, in terms of hardware) of the Note 4 than a revolution. You're still looking at a 5.7-inch quad HD display, a 16-megapixel rear camera and 32GB of built-in storage. The biggest changes are the Galaxy S6's octa-core processor, a bump to 4GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel front cam... and, unfortunately for some, the removal of the microSD card slot.

There are no new details for the bigger Edge, although it's expected to be little more than an upsized version of the unusually-shaped phone you already know. At this point, the only big questions left are the software and release date. At least the Note 5 is poised to ship with Android 5.1, but Samsung usually has a few extra pen-oriented features up its sleeve. And while it's likely that the new gigantophone will be unveiled sooner than many people expected, it's not certain how soon you'll get one in your hands.