Six years ago Oracle, the database company which acquired the Java programming language when Sun Microsystems went titsup in 2009 started a lawsuit claiming that Google, by using some of the Java APIs in its Android operating system.After trying to licence Java from Sun in 2005 …

tl;dr The Hackers Keyboard app doesn’t play well with the Onda v972 tablet running Android 4.2.2. I made an apk which allows you to scale the key labels bigger so that you can read them. Grab a copy of Hackers Keyboard with improved keyboard label scaling.Last night I upgraded my Onda v972 t …

I recently got hold of a tablet, mostly for reading PDFs on, but I realized that the preinstalled android OS didn’t let me have root access. Which is deeply immoral. I ought to be able to do what I want to the devices I buy. It took me ages to work out how to get root on it, so I have writen …