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Welcome to Chainfire's development blog! This is a site dedicated to my hobby projects, as well as those that are now commercial. I am however not promising I will not post any other completely unrelated nonsense :) Don't see this as my resume.

Samsung Galaxy SIII rooted !

The Samsung Galaxy S III isn't even out yet, but we have achieved root on it. Here's a link with more details:

Back button position doesn't really matter ?

A few days ago a video of an SGS3 engineering sample was leaked. If you've seen it, you might have noticed that the back button and multi-tasking button have switched places versus the Google reference positioning. On the sample the button layout is ...

Is Google blocking apps writing to SD cards ?

Ok, so the subject is a little misleading. A more complete question would be:

SuperSU v0.70 has been released !

SuperSU is a Superuser replacement app I wrote due to some issues I kept having with Superuser.

TriangleAway has been released !

TriangleAway can reset the flash counter and warning triangle on your Samsung Galaxy S2 (ICS builds only). The download and technical details can be found, as usual, on XDA-Developers.com

USB Host Diagnostics released !

USB Host Diagnostics determines your device's USB host capabilities.

Themes across Android versions

This article unveils the secret of having your app's theme look consistent with the rest of the device's UI across all Android versions.

StickMount v1.0 released !

Automatically mount and dismount USB sticks on the Galaxy Nexus

Remote Release released !

Remote Release has been released to the Android Market and XDA-Developers.com.

DSLR Controller updated; SGS2 and SG Note supported again!

DSLR Controller has been updated again. While I normally do not write about a single update, this one brings support for various Android 2.3 Gingerbread devices (if rooted) that were not (or no longer) supported, like the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Sa ...