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Tina time-lapse, getting it and how to use

It is no problem getting the application ofcause. You may goto the Market and then search for “Tina time-lapse”. The app is for free and is straight forward to use. You simply enter a name, how often images should be take (say every 7th second), a limit for the number pictures taken may be entered and the resolution of each picture.

Doing the recording

Tonight I decided to place my HTC Legend phone in the front window and let it record the around 15 minuts drive to Aarhus (a city approx. 12 km from where I live). I did some calculating and decided to go for 540 pictures. I pushed record and drove into the night. The problem is ofcause that the phone may tilt as it is not mounted – that I will have to come up with a solution for. Anyone know of a device like which makes it possibel to mount the phone on a standard camera tripod? Please write if you do so.

When I reached my goal in Aarhus and picked up the phone I am not sure, but I think that the app intelligently stopped recording! (smart if so). The reason that I think that it did it automatically is that it only recoreded 173 frames/pictures and not the 540 which I had specified.

Converting the pictures into a movie

Well that part was actually not difficult either. I simply followed the instructions given by the Tina time-lapse developer: Wessel Rossing on his page about this app: http://wesselrossing.nl/blog/view/21 – he has recorded a video in which he describes how you can get your images to your PC and convert them into a video using the free program “avidemux” (see screenshoot below).

I choose to add the audio from Madonna – “Ray of light” which in the original video actually also uses Time-Lapse recordings.

I changed the framerate to 8,5 fps, and I also added some video filters to fix the low light of the evening pictures. Here is how it looks like when you save the video:

The 2nd go at encoding to movie..

Well I had to try again… And this time it went fine! The encoding took almost no time, but strangly enough it ended up with a crash. The video however was okay!

The video is here:

Links

• “avidemux” – free cross platform software to make video from Time-lapse pictures
• “Tina time-lapse” – http://wesselrossing.nl/blog/view/21
• http://www.hdtimelapse.net/ – several cool time-lapse videoes

Download the Android SDK

You can download the Android SDK from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html Do that and unpack it to your disc.

Open CMD window with current directory set to “tools”

We need a CMD prompt with current directory set to the “tools” directory inside the Android SDK

• Finding the emulator.exe.
  Click the start button of windows
• In the search field enter "emulator.exe"
• When the "emulator.exe" appears right click on it and click "Open the location"
• Now you click the full address of the explorer which opened. It is probertly something like this:
  C:\Users\Sten\Documents\Download\android-sdk_r05-windows\android-sdk-windows\tools
• Copy that full address to the clipboard
• Open a CMD prompt
  Press the [Windows-key]+[R] or enter "cmd" in the windows search textarea of the windows startmenu
• In the CMD window enter: "cd " + right click and paste the path from above

Setup an "AVD" – Android Virtual Device

Before we can run the emulator we need to have defined an Android Virtual Device. There are a tool in the SDK which will help us do that.

The command you should use looks like this:

android create avd -n <name> -t <targetID> [-<option> <value>] …

Then <name> is well a name which you use in future when runne the AVD.

The <targetID> is used to select which hardware and OS version should be used for your virtual device. You can get at list of the currently available targets on your SDK by typing this command:

android list targets

For now lets try a simple AVD – in the references below you can find a link to the complete documentation of the AVD.

To create an Android 2.1 based AVD called “Android2.1” type this command:

android create avd -n Android2.1 -t android-7

Running the emulator

After having created an AVD we can run it from the command window. To run the AVD we created called “Android2.1” simply enter this command:

emulator –avd Android2.1

To start of with the emulator will “boot” – that may take a while, but you should see something like this:

Here are some more screenshoots:

Adding a SD card

One thing which I did not thing about but was quickly aware of was the need for a SD Card in the emulator. No problem! You simply change the command to:

android create avd -n Android_2G_SDCard -c 2000M -t android-7

It may take a while to create – but when done you have a new AVD profile called “Android_2G_SDCard” which is based on Android 2.1 and has a SD card with 2GB memory.

Installing Apps

You can install apps on the AVD. I tried simply by locating “APK” files on a website containing Android Apps. Using the browser I visited http://www.androidfreeware.org/ and located an APK file – downloaded it and installed the app as seen below.

Conclusion

I find the emulator included in the Google Android SDK very usefull! It is relatively straightforward and I guess that you can get a taste of the Android OS for free using this emulator. People who have not yet bought a smartphone have all the chances here to try out the interface – and even download some of the apps availiable for free. For an app developer it is probertly also a very usefull tool! Well done Google!!!

References

• Android Virtual Device

Using Microsoft excel I have created a simpel graph showing these numbers in a graph (sorry about the danish thousend seperator):

I will let the numbers and graph speak for themself – please comment on them, and if you have earned some cash creating an app for Android or iPhone, I would love to get your comments/experiences as well here!

Hi,

To protect your privacy we would like you to know that Google Latitude is running on your Android-powered device and reporting your location.

If you didn’t enable this or want to stop reporting your location please open the Maps app on your device. Go to ‘Menu’ > ‘Latitude’ > ‘Privacy’ and change your privacy settings.

Thanks,

Google Latitude Team

(c) 2009 Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

Thank you Google! On the one hand you use the position information of the visitiors (first asking them if it is okay!) and on the other hand you remind people that a potential risc exists! Very cool done!

I tested it by searching for "Goggles" – it found "Google Goggles", I clicked on the link, pressed "Install" on my PC. Went to my phone and pressed "Sync with AppBrain" – it discovered that "Google Goggles" was a pending app. I pressed install – and sadly ended up with an error message saying (in danish) that there was no result in the Android Marked for the search: "pname:com.google.android.apps.unveil".

Conclusion

It seems like a nice place to bookmark, a place where you can manage the apps on your phone. My test with Google Goggles I hope is an exception – I expect other apps to install correctly as it seems that I can’t find Google Goggles anywhere! So thumbs up for appbrain.com!

Update: I now have experienced problem with installing two apps and have written to AppBrain.com – hope to be able to post more information here later.