How to hide Folder and Applications in Android Phones without any App

Most of the android phones have inbuilt folder and app hiding facilities but users are often found unaware of this feature and they are gullied by advertisers to download applications for this purpose. Sometimes, using an app. too doesn't seem helpful and hiding facilities are restricted to certain files or folders specifically folders like gallery and my files. Here is how you can hide your apps like whatsapp, line, viber, facebook, etc.as well hide specific folders such as folders containing private videos or might be folders with adult content that you want to hide from being visible to children at your home or maybe your girl friend.:P 

1. How to hide folders in Android Phones?

Tap on the menu and select “my files” from the grid or list view (as per display setting)of the icons on the screen. Go to the folder that you need to hide and just RENAME it. Insert a “.” DOT before the name of the folder and save it. Now, tap on the options button at the left bottom end (as in most of the phones) and go to setting by scrolling down the pop up menu. You will see “show hidden files” option at the top. Uncheck the option and return to main menu. Now, check for the folder you had renamed. Yes!! You will not see the hidden folder.

2. How to hide App in Android Phones

You might have felt the need of hiding an app from your kids or female friends or maybe from your elders. This is far easier than users think and you need no other application to be installed. Here is how you can do that.

Tap on the menu button and you can view the screen with icons in grid or list view (as per display setting) of the icons. Now, tap on the option button at left bottom end. You will see hide application button at the button of the pop up menu. Tap on that option of “hide applications” and you will see a checkgrid. Check on the applications you want to hide and tap back to main menu. You will now find that the app you hided has disappeared from menu. However, the applications will be still running. This is just to prevent intended access to the app.

Note: If you have created a shortcut on the main screens apart from Apps and Widget window, delete that by dragging to right bottom menu button that will turn to delete button while dragging the icon of the app. This does not delete the app. 

How to Install Whatsapp and other Android Apps on P.C.

Many a techie minded mobile users and those android app lovers feel the need to run android applications such as games and chatting applications like whatsapp on their laptops or P.C. Not all of them might be technically knowledgeable enough to understand how they can do this. 

Here, I will tell you how to install android applications such as whatsapp on your P.C. and use them. To do this, you need to download an emulator from the internet. There are so many emulators available over the internet to be downloaded and used free of cost. “Bluestacks” is one of them. Here is a stepwise guidance to the complete process.

Step 1: Go to Google homepage and search for an emulator to download
Step 2: Download emulator and install it. Accept any choices offered during installation. Note: Do understand your personal choices while accepting the terms.
Step 4: Now click on the shortcut created on the desktop
Step 5: Search for your desired android application from the search bar in the application window.
Step 6: Now, click on the correct application from the search list and install it.

 You are done.
Step 8: To use the application, you need to open the emulator installed (here, bluestacks) and you will see the installed apps in a grid wise view.
Step 9: Click on the icon of the desired application eg.Whatsapp. and just follow the steps to use it for the first time as you do in a mobile phone.

Good Luck !!

NFC – Near Field Communication

This is the era of smartphones with Android as a futuristic operating system for various handy gadgets like smartphones, tablets, phablets and many more.  Now, your smartphones possess NFC facility. All android device manufacturers support this feature; however Apple is still to embrace it. Some of the cell phone manufacturers supporting this feature include HTC, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, LG and Blackberry.  

What is NFC? 

How to Trasfer Files Between two Android Devices using WiFi - Without any App

The technology used – WiFi Direct 

How to share files from one android device to other through WiFi? How to send large files faster than Bluetooth?

If your query is something similar to these two, here is the answer. Let me make it clear to you – I am not talking about any mobile application? The process requires – No Internet, No Cable, No Bluetooth, No other network other than WiFi.

Requirement – Two WiFi enabled Android Devices working on a platform of Android 4.0 (API level 14 or later version.

Google Glass – A Usability and Hardware Review

Google Glass, released in February 2013, is a wearable computer, concisely described in common language. As the name suggests, “Google” developed it in the "Project Glass" research and development project with the view to develop a ubiquitous device that matches to a computer, comparing to most of the features. It has a touch pad at the sidebar. The device has the feature to accept voice commands to perform a task. Head mounted display (HMD) is an innovative feature of the device and allows you to bring it in use as a monitor. These were some facts, with crystal-clear presentation. Now, let us dive in deeper and come up with the real usability that it offers to the customers.

What is Camera Megapixel or MP?

Each time you come across an advertisement for some technical gadget like a digital camera or a mobile phone, you would probably find the advertiser flaunting the capability of the device camera in the terms of megapixels. What is megapixel or MP? Many a gizmo freaks not even know what megapixels mean and head out to the store for a high megapixel gadget. It might not be surprising to you that we make a gadget buying decision with camera megapixel value as an important criterion to consider. Let me tell you what a megapixel means.

Windows Smartphone Vs Android: Windows Smartphone is Better than Android

Which is the best mobile operating system in the present scenario of smart phones? This question being asked to you, probably the answer would just be a choice between two – windows or android. Many a people deciding to own a smart phone are in dilemma as which operating system to go for when buying a phone. I personally have come across many a status updates over social networking websites like Facebook, G+, etc. that was in the form of a question – Buying a smart phone; Windows or Android? Surprisingly and somewhat obvious, when I scrolled through the comments, it was android winning the battle. This operating system developed by Google has gained unexpected popularity in a short time span. Windows is lagging far behind to the extent smart phone operating system is concerned. Even I have a smart phone “Samsung Galaxy” that runs on android OS. But now after using this phone for a couple of months, I feel I took a wrong decision. Windows is better than android as an operating system to be used in a phone. Let’s make a comparison of the two.

Android – Version History

Version History of Android (A mobile operating system) 

1. Android alpha: Before the release of the android beta in November 2007, there were about two internal releases inside Google/OHA. The green android logo was designed by Irina Brok. Ryan Gibson was the person to conceive the idea of naming the versions with confectionary names. The first one was named as “Cupcake”.

2. Android beta: The beta version of android was released on 5 November 2007. On the other hand, the software development kit (SDK) was released on 12 November 2007. 5 November is considered as the birth day of Android. Following are the public beta versions of SDK released from 2007 to 2008.