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French Revolution Day by Day	Device Description
Follow the twists and turns of the French Revolution, day by day.	What your device says to Android, when you are not listening.

Device Descriptor - How your device describes itself to Android!

This app simply lists the detailed attributes of a device as it reveals itself to Android. What your device says to Android, when you are not listening, as it were.

Listing detailed technical attributes and functions, it also lists the relevant Android API calls that retrieve such information. A handy reference.

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The small, light-weight app is purely descriptive! It requires permission to read states of the device but does not set any value, or interfere in any way, with your device. It's read-only! You can see that in the permissions required by the app - for example, ACCESS_WIFI_STATE, not CHANGE_WIFI_STATE....

Categories covered include:

• Build
• Display
• Sensors
• Battery
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth
• Telephony

For example, it lists all the sensors within your device, giving information on the maker and model, the type of sensor, the power used by the sensor in operation, its resolution or accuracy, etc.

Another example: it lists information on all cells within reach of the radios within the device, as supplied by Android.

Basically, an interesting insight into the details of your phones innards, complete with links to the associated Android API documentation for each attribute displayed. Interesting in its own right and potentially very useful for Android developers.

The app is free and requires no permissions to run on your smartphone or tablet.

It requires Android 5.0+ due to the requirements of some of its API calls.

Have I missed anything you would have liked to see? Let me know the attribute and it may be possible to include it in future versions - digitalrhetoricapps-at-gmail.com

Note: The app was developed as part of the 'Build your own Android app' series of posts in 'Eyes on Android', a blog on Electronics Weekly. See www.electronicsweekly.com/eyes-on-android/build-your-own-android-app/

French Revolution - Day By Day

French Revolution - Day By Day

An Android app to follow the twists and turns of the French Revolution, day by day.

Swipe your way through the events of the French Revolution, scroll your way through the timeline of major episodes, and click your way through the biographies of more than forty key protagonists.

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All the major events - from the Tennis Court Oath, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Day of Daggers, the execution of Louis Capet, the revolts in the Vendee, the murder of Marat, the Levée en masse and the twists and turns of The Terror, the Law of Suspects, and the guillotining of the Jacobins, all the way to the Bonaparte-backed defence of the Directory.

Journey, also, along the byways and less traversed back roads of the Childers Incident, the Réveillon riots, the Parthenopean Republic of Naples, the Cordeliers Club, dates of the French Republican Calendar, battles of the Army of the West Pyrenees, the Irish Rebellions...

The people profiled rainge from Talleyrand, Desmoulins, Napoleon, Hebert, Lafayette, Necker, Saint-Just, Brissot and the Robespierre brothers. Know your Moreau from your Marat from your Murat! Your Calonne from your Carnot from your Carrier!

Sort out the Girondins from the Dantonists and the Jacobins from the Hébertists.

Distinguish the Coup d'état of 30 Prairial Year VII from the Coup d'état of 18 Fructidor from the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire...

Also, with a responsive design, it is Smartphone and Tablet friendly.

Features include:

• Entries for every day of the year 
• Timeline of major events 
• Character profile of interesting and main protagonists
• Responsive design Phone and Tablet friendly 

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The app is free and requires no permissions to run on your smartphone or tablet.

View screenshots of the App in hot French Revolutionary action! »

The app was developed as part of the Electronics Weekly blog, Eyes on Android, specifically, the 'Build your own app' series of blog posts.

French Revolution - Day by Day - Screenshots

View some screenshots of the Android app that follows the twists and turns of the French Revolution, day by day.

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The app was developed as part of the Electronics Weekly blog, Eyes on Android, specifically, the 'Build your own app' series of blog posts.  

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