Yearly Archives: 2015

Changing Android system options via adb shell

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While setting up an unattended testing environment which uses Android emulators, I’ve run into difficulties with the default system settings. An Android Virtual Device – like any freshly-installed Android device – is created with default settings which are not very friendly for a testing environment, namely: the lock screen is active, and shows up when […]

The "make yourself at home" screen. Known internally as "cling" screen.

Python – importing bash environment variables

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I’ve run into situations where it was necessary to read the values of bash environment variables defined in a file into a python script. Something like that is achieved in bash simply by doing: source env.vars or . env.vars Where the content of env.vars could be something like this: BASE=/home/user/scripts BIN_DIR=$BASE/bin VAR1=xxxxx VAR2=yyyy The solutions […]