Despite all the excitement about custom ROMs, my Android phone is running the vanilla (Google experience) ROM that shipped from my network operator. However, I want to be both up-to-date and rooted, so I apply each OTA update but not without caution.

When working on Android, I found it useful to be able to unpack a boot image, replace a few files and repack it. unbootimg is the perfect complement to the mkbootimg tool that is used to create Android boot images.

Version 0.6.2 is an incremental update to 0.6.1 which improves the startup speed, but most importantly adds a couple new preferences:

[English Translation] "The author of Barnacle Dythr now working on a project that seems to be. In this truly unique, WiFi ad hoc mode beacon using the SSID, the minimum one-way data communication between users of just one to many physical proximity, the notion that the spread of information that repeated . In close physical distance could be helpful to think of Twitter like. Acceptance of how people of the world aside, as the idea is really excellent." - Yasuro blogs

I have unpublished the legacy version from the Market: Barnacle Wifi Legacy. If you really want it you can get it from here, but I encourage you to use the current version as the legacy won't receive any bug fixes or updates.

Version 0.6.1 had a bumpy release. A small repo conundrum caused an old FC to creep back into the release. That's what I get for using subversion over afs. Here's what's new:

As explained by Android Police, rooting an Android phone does not necessarily mean installing a custom ROM. Do you want to root the phone but avoid the hassle of custom ROMs?

Suppose you want one Android phone to connect to another. Unfortunately, the WifiManager in stock Android ignores ad-hoc networks. There are a couple ways around this:

Barnacle Wifi Tether is a combination of three tools to provide wifi tethering capability on an Android phone. Those three tools are:

I have developed Barnacle Wifi Tether in my spare time on my girlfriend's request. Her Android phone didn't have a data plan as did mine, so wifi tethering was her birthday gift. In my ambition, I decided to develop a solution that would not require flashing a custom kernel. I learned a lot about Android app development in the process.