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Where the new Ice Cream Sandwich build of dropbox stores files

December 24, 2011 – 4:21 pm

In the old version of dropbox, you used to be able to long press > download a file. This has been replaced by “favorite”.

Instead of going to:
/sdcard/dropbox
These files are now stored in:
/sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android/files/scratch

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Powering Chrome to Phone with Android to Device Messaging

August 12, 2010 – 6:42 pm

Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) was launched recently as part of Android 2.2. C2DM enables third-party developers to push lightweight data messages to the phone. C2DM created a nice opportunity for us to pull together different Google developer tools to create a simple but useful application to enable users to push links and other information from their desktop / laptop to their phone. The result was Chrome to Phone – a 20-percent time project at Google.

Chrome to Phone comprises a Chrome Extension, an Android Application, and a Google AppEngine server. All of the code is open sourced and serves as a nice example of how to use C2DM.

I really can’t wait for the 2.2 update to my phone.

Check out the technical brief here

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