On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 05:39:49 -0000 (UTC), Diesel wrote:

What does this have to do with alt.comp.freeware or the various other
usenet newsgroups you've spammed this to?

It's all about Windows & Android freeware, whether you realize it or not:
o It's a test of Android Studio freeware (which downloads SDK freeware)
o And it's about _writing_ Android freeware that does not yet exist

The whole reason I tried the Windows freeware was so that I could overcome
basic issues with current Android freeware, such as the fact that Android
doesn't have non-ad, non server, non spyware, etc., freeware that...
o Sets native Screenshot file output to a folder on the external sdcard
o Creates a single press "10" minute alarm that requires no other action
o Pops up a keyboard that _defaults_ to the microphone (for God's sake!)
o Camera that works better with gloves under a vehicle in awkward positions
o Outputs an editable file of all apps installed & versions & URLs
o Single press surreptitious recording of ambient conversations
o Keyword-driven locally processed custom virtual assistant
etc.
As per this recent thread:
What are the most fundamental basic apps that are (apparently) lacking on Android?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.mobile.android/SZk_fXWqg88

Nopers, not for me it didn't. More like 20 minutes or so. You must
have a ****ty amount of bandwidth allocated to you.

You might have cable. We are too far away from civilization for that.

There are no wires or pipes that come or go from my house to a "public
utility" other than the power lines (and even they fall down about a dozen
times a year, which is a perennial beef we have with our power company).

And we have both a femtocell & a cellular repeater for our cell signal:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8809135cellular01.jpg
Which I've tested to see which works best in which room of the house:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8831319cellular04.jpg
Where we get pretty good at cellular & WiFi signal-debugging freewa
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=3792112cellular02.jpg
But if you know of better WiFi debugging freeware, please let us know:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1851937cellular03.jpg
Because we're _always_ looking for better WiFi & cellular debug freeware!
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1793606cellular07.jpg

I'll have 1gbit
input to my home and office very soon for the same price as I'm
paying now for the 100mbit connection I have at both places; which is
quite nice considering.

Our net speeds are nothing like yours with cable at the price you pay.

Our WISP Internet comes through the air from quite a few miles away, so
we're all pretty good at setting up radio antennas, and our plots are
large, so we have plenty of spare radios where I personally have about a
dozen access points like this one scattered about the house and property:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5562233cellular06.jpg

Ayep, baby step. You haven't got the foggiest idea what you're doing.
Do you expect to pickup coding (well, scripting, even if it's java)
overnight or something? Are you planning to make the next great thing
in a couple of days time? You don't have the experience yet to write
code at the level I and many of my peers do, Arlen.

While we're both very old men, the big difference between me, and you,
Diesel, is that I'm an average adult of average intelligence.

Even so, I _hate_ coding, where the _last_ time I wrote in a bona-fide
programming language (not just shell scripts) was when I took COBOL, PL/1
(yes, this is before "C"), IBM Assembly language (yes, in the days when
"duplex" was a big deal), and Fortran (yes, before Fortran 77 even
existed).

I hated "write(x,y)" statements then, and I'd likely hate them now.
Same with "Error 42" codes that we looked up in a big fat book outside the
paper output bins and the punch-card readers.

The problem is that I hate software that doesn't do the simplest of things,
as I described above. So I'm going to see if I can write it.

All my software will always be
o freeware
o no ads
o no servers
o no spyware
o simple as can be to do a single job well

It will _always_ be provided so that _everyone_ can use it for free.
You can either help, or complain.

In short, to answer your question about freeware, this thread happens to be
o About Windows freeware
o To write Android freeware