Android on Diogo Gomes

Open your garage door using Bluetooth LE (BLE)

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:00:00 +0000

This was one of those projects I had kept in the backlog for too long, but finally got the time and drive to finish it up.

The problem was very simple and common. In the building I share, we have a common garage door which can be open/closed through a (very expensive) radio remote control. Each apartment has a single remote control and any now or then one of them gets lost.

MeoCloud Music

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:25:51 +0000

Desde o lançamento do MeoCloud no Codebits de 2012, que tenho acompanhado as diversas evoluções desde serviço de armazenamento online da PT.

Como “pioneiro” tive o previlégio de uma quota muito generosa, que infelizmente não tenho usado muito devido aos efeitos de rede (poucos utilizadores MeoCloud quando comparados com o Dropbox por exemplo). No entanto, a rapidez do serviço é notória assim como a abertura do serviço a 3rd party developers, através de uma API muito semelhante à da Dropbox mas com mais uns pózinhos.

Open Vidonn

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:30:00 +0000

For some month’s now I’ve been using Moves.app which was recently acquired by Facebook. Moves allows me to track my daily activity through the use of my smartphone accelerometer and GPS. In the end of the day/week, I’m able to analyze how much exercise I did, as well as where I’ve been to… The last feature being the one which I would rather not disclose to Facebook. Moves works great except for a tiny detail, that has become a big one: It eats up all the battery. I was still using my iPhone 4S when I started using moves, battery would drain before the end of the day. My Nexus 5 is holding better, but still it’s taking a big hit.

iOS to Android

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 20:30:00 +0000

I’ve been an iOS user (in various incarnations: iphone 3G, iphone 3Gs, iphone 4s, ipad, ipad 3) for more then 4years, I’m what many of you would call an Apple fanboy.

Two years ago, I bought a Nexus 7 to get more involved with Android. At first it all seemed very strange, various applications weren’t available and I just kept getting back to my iOS devices.

But this year, instead of the next logical upgrade to an iphone 5s, I decided to go with a Google Nexus 5.