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Its been long long time since i updated my blog ... pretty busy with my companies  latest and greatest Android gaming device development ( Yup thats true .. XPERIA PLAY ....    http://www.sonyericsson.com/mwcnews/xperia_play/   ) ... well enough of PRing my SEMC  product :D.  Does anyone know where the wallpapers are located... directory?  This is the question i have seen in many websites and long list of threads did not yield any good info .. i decided to take a plunge and see where exactly it was hiding .... well it is not big of deal once you know the location. 1. Wallpapers you see and pick are usually bundled with Launcher application and default wallpaper may or may not be part of it.  2. If default wallpaper is not part of Launcher app resources, where is it hiding ??  Answer is,  System picks it up from following location  platform sourcecode -   /system/frameworks/base/core/res/res/drawable/defau...

I am back again this time with something interesting and useful ( hopefully ) .... As you know i switched my loyalties to Android OS ( I am forced :( .... sorry Windows Mobile ), i strted using Android Phone as my hip phone and in no time i fell in love with this OS. I started using NexusOne with intention not to like it and find execuses to hate it ( Sorry i am still Windwos Mobile hangover so i wanted to prove that Android is just hype .... what ??? Am i crazy ???). Well .... I love Linux / Embedded Linux ( I spent little amount of time writing serial port for Linux back in 2001 but that was long ago and beginning of 2004 when i started testing Win Mo devices and it was one of the leading Platform for Smartphones ) but i middle layer is crappy and disorganized from various vendirs and give little scope for developer so NONE of the Embedded Linux kernal based phones made BIG impact on the market. But that is history, eversince Google acquired Android ( Company behind making Andr...

Hello Folks !!!! I am back this time for a change with Non Windows Mobile Topic ( What ??????/ Are you going to ditch Windows Mobile ????? ). No No No .... Windows Mobile is still my favourite subject for many reasons ( Actually only one reason .... I am very comfortable with WinCE architecture and exposed to thsi for many years :) ). Ever since Google took over Android and announced release fo Google Phone, Like many i am also interested to know how this thing is going to take shape. Grabbed my attention to explore what is there in Andriod. I am going to publish series of Posts talks about Andriod Basics. Let us start !!!!!!!!!! What is Andriod ============= Let me oversimplfy the defination here .... Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. In other words Andriod is Platform for Embedded , Cosumer Electronic and Smaptphone devices. Andriod is Platform runs of Linux kernel 2.6. For those who are faimiliar with Widnows Mobile, Windwos Mobile is platform runs o...