Subscribe Facebook / Facebook Page by RSS Feed

1. Prepare you Facebook page URL

i.e. (https://www.facebook.com/3thdev)

2. Get Facebook ID

Visit the page http://findmyfacebookid.com/ . It will translate your Facebook URL into Facebook ID

3. Prepare the RSS URL

Append your desired Facebook ID into the following link

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=<FACEBOOK-ID>
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=<FACEBOOK-ID>

4. Subscribe your Feed

Use you link to subscribe the feed from your favored RSS Reader. If you don't have one, try these.

http://www.feedly.com

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noinnion.android.greader.reader

Creating Android Icon

 Finding a tools to create an icon for your Android apps? Check this out.


Greenfish Icon Editor Pro Portable

 http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/greenfish-icon-editor-pro-portable

send SMS to Android Emulator

If you try to develop SMS related Android app, you may want to send testing SMS to your emulator through Emulator Console.

With Emulator Console, you can simulate voice call and SMS activity on your Android Virtual Device (AVD). To make it works, please following the following steps


1. Make sure your AVD was started.

2. Start putty. (Get here if don't have.)

3. Connect your local host with TCP port 5554. Press "Save" and "Open" to start Emulator Console.

4. if all things go fine, Emulator Console will display as follow.

5.  Type in "sms send <phone number> <message text>".

6. SMS message will be delivered ti AVD.

Google Play : Android Developer Console beta problem

Google had released a new beta version of Google play Android Developer console..
However, I get a problem when in providing multiple language description on my apps.

I defined 4 language description (English-US, English-EN, Trad Chinese & Simp. Chinese). It looks fine in new beta.
But when I switch back to old version. the language tag just show Eng-en x 3 & 1 x Trad Chinese.

I have reported the issue to Google, and see if they have any reply.

making table on Blogger / BlogSpot

If  you have table prepared on Excel and wanted to paste it on Blogger, table layout will be destroyed.
Its because Excel table incuded large amount of specific layout including actual pixel size, position, etc.

To make the layout in order, switch to "HTML" immediately right after you you pasted the Excel table in "Compose", and clear up all unwanted tag

 Her it get a nice HTML basic example for you, from another Blogger.

http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.hk/2007/08/tables-html-basics-and-tutorial.html

Syntax Highlight for Blogger

Content of this blog contain source code of programming language, like XML & Java. For ease of reading, they are well formatted by SyntaxHighlighter .

The following described how to implement SyntaxHighlighter in Blogger.com

1. Login Blogger > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed

2. Copy & Paste the following code, just before </Head>. Then Save template. After that, Blogger template setup is completed

2. To add formatted code in to your Blogger, use wrap the content with the following tag.

You also get to edit the content by HTML as below.

The above example is for XML content. For other like Java, PHP, etc, see the table below

Here's a list of supported languages and their aliases:

Language	Aliases
C++	cpp, c, c++
C#	c#, c-sharp, csharp
CSS	css
Delphi	delphi, pascal
Java	java
Java Script	js, jscript, javascript
PHP	php
Python	py, python
Ruby	rb, ruby, rails, ror
Sql	sql
VB	vb, vb.net
XML/HTML	xml, html, xhtml, xslt

Please also check with SyntaxHighlighter website for other info.

SyntaxHighlighter in Google Code
SyntaxHighlighter web site

Android apps language translation

Google has provided an web-base translation tool which help developer to translate their apps content from one language to another. Google translate tool kit allow you to upload the strings.xml, and it will extract & translate only the tag content (but not full file). You can even review the translated tag one-by-one and make correction.

However, the result is not very fine for me. I guest Google get to work harder on its translation service.