Category Archives: android

One Reason to Love Samsung Galaxy Tab for Research

I’ve posted a bit about the Nook eReader, and I also posted that I recently picked up a Samsung Galaxy Tab. While playing around with it, I discovered that with a couple of apps you can turn it into a pretty powerful research tool. I wrote about it over at Android for Academics. Rather thanContinue Reading

Attendance App (New Video Demo)

I thought it would be a good idea to put together a short demo video of the free Attendance app we have on the Android market, so you can see how the integration with Google Docs works. Here it is.Continue Reading

5 Uses of Chrome to Phone for Academics

I’ve been playing around with Google Chrome’s extension called Chrome to Phone, and I’m completely hooked. The concept is simple enough. You’re on your desktop and you find some information that would be useful to bring up on your phone in the near future (e.g. you’re about to leave your office to go to class).Continue Reading

Attendance App Released! (Android for Academics)

We (Android for Academics) just launched an Attendance App. It’s available for free on the Android Market. I can attest to its awesomeness because I’ve been using it in my classes this semester. The really novel feature is that you don’t need to enter student names into your phone or export the data from yourContinue Reading

Grade Book for Android!

We (Android for Academics) just released a grade book program. I’m pretty excited about this. It’s been in the works all summer, and I’m very happy that we could get it out for the start of the fall semester. That’s really all due to  Jon Nalewajek – he did all of the coding on thisContinue Reading

Grade Rubric Upgrade – Email Student Grades

We (Android for Academics) upgraded Grade Rubric. Now users have the option of generating an email message when you press the calculate button. The auto-generated message will include the final grade and a breakdown of your marks for each rubric category. All you’ll have to do is enter their email address (which will be veryContinue Reading

I’m an Android Developer!

I wrote my first app for the Android platform, and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s called Grade Rubric. It’s a simple tool for professors who grade papers and assignments using a grading rubric. You can read more about it here. Search for the app on the Android Market under “Grade Rubric”.Continue Reading

Introducing Android For Academics!

It should come as no surprise to you guys that I love the Android OS. It should also come as no surprise that I think the Android OS has enormous potential benefits/applications for academics. I am now proud to introduce Android for Academics. The purpose of the site is two-fold. First, I’m working with anContinue Reading

Speech to Text in android update

I’m writing this blog post by talking into my phone. That’s because android phones recently updated with new firmware. The keyboard on the new firmware includes a speech to text option, and it is awesome. There are so many ways that this speech to text function would make an academics life easier. For example iContinue Reading

My First Android Guys Post

I’m now a contributor at AndroidGuys. Android Guys has been one of my favorite places to get Android related news since the first Android phone launched, and so I’m pretty excited to be able to help these guys out. You can check out my first post here.. It’s a video review/demo of Scan2pdf Mobile. Here’sContinue Reading