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As follow-up to my introduction to basic speech to text for Android, let’s discuss some more details about detecting the state of our speaker class. For example, how would we find out whether the speaker has finished reading out an…
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Obviously, one of the most important parts of our caller name announcing app is to let the system read out the caller’s name. Luckily Android has everything which is needed already built in, so let’s have a look at how…
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Welcome to the third part of my contact name lookup tutorial for Xamarin Android – if you’ve come this far, you probably rebuilt and tested the solution presented in part #2. If so, you might have noticed that the lookup…
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After setting up the basic structure of a contacts database lookup function, this time we’ll look at all the parameters which are there to customize the lookup! Beside context and target URI, the CursorLoader constructor accepts the following properties: Projection…
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In the previous blog posts, I showed you how to detect incoming phone calls, and retrieve the caller’s phone number and invoke custom business logic when the phone rings. Today, we will look at how to map this phone number…
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As an alternative to the PhoneStateListener presented in the previous blog post, another approach towards identifying incoming phone calls on Xamarin.Android is the use of a BroadcastReceiver. Android BroadcastReceivers also listen to certain notifications (either within an application or system-wide)…
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A few years ago – clearly before the smartphone era – I remember owning an old Nokia phone, which had (although being everything else than “smart”) one very handy feature: Whenever one of my contacts called me, the phone would…
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