Nspiroid update v1.40:

What's new: Support for theming (aka skinning) the keypad. A simple theme editor for the keypad keyBackground gradient drawable is included.

Theme editor features:
 * Offers a choice of different(16) background gradients and then lets you modify each of them, for instance: the stroke's width and color, the corner radius and the gradient angle.
 * You can save the edited theme to a file and also load a new theme from file.
 * In case you don't like the changes you can always revert to the initial theme (the grayish one)

Some effort has been put onto this extra facility, but is not yet finished, as usual . Final touches always require more time. Anyway, I feel it's time to let you know about it.
Other than that, I also did some better tunning of the supported devices layouts.

Attached are two animated gifs for Nspiroid and its theme editor made with screenies from my phone (Asus Selfie). Things will look a bit different on tablets, but the functionality should be about the same.

As always, please report any bug you might find. Have fun with colors,

Edit1: I forgot to mention that Nspiroid themes (aka skins) are stored in the /sdcard/nspire/skins directory, which must exist.
Edit2: I'm attaching a sample theme file 'Nspiroid_Theme_QuickStart.txt' which you can place in your phone/tablet's /sdcard/nspire/skins directory.
After the theme is loaded ("Settings->Keypad theme->Save or load theme->Load...->Load Nspiroid theme") Nspiroid should look like the next attached picture 'QuickStartTheme_land_MemoPad.png'.

The only skin available currently is the current one that you use all the time :p

Well, it's probably just me (yet again). All I get on my FF 42.0 is this (green face <att. below>). Sooo, no lobster s**t (unless it got green-ish  )

However, this system would easily allow writing a skin to make it look like a facebook-chat with a bottom bar and stuff.

I think you should go ahead and implement that fb-like bottom bar. You'll have fun for sure, once it's done.

Hi there,

I've been working on a way to theme Nspiroid and I think by now I already have a solution on how to do it.  Below you can get a feel for the looks' difference using the standard theme and a gradient background one. The example shows a Samsung Tab S2 8.0 'wearing' the default theme versus a colorized one.

Usually math geeks do not give much importance to these accessory details. I personally think it can be fun for some young people, though.

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"Yeah, yeah. That's nice. When the fuck is this game going to be released?!"

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Hmm, I don't seen that quote anywhere, or is it implicit in @c4ooo comments? Anyways, still plenty of time until next September,  IIRC

Is coming along quite nicely, tho. Please do keep it up!

@SpiroH: Great! Thanks for your help. I succeded to install 4.2 on kArmTI 1.80. So far I've just tried the 3D-Graphing which works fine.

Good, I'm glad you succeeded. You're welcome!

The latest kArmTI 1.81 crashes on my Windows 7 immediately after starting. The Calculator Interface appears only for a split second and disappears immediately, even after creating a new flash file with kArmTi 1.80 and it's running OS 4.2 and renaming the *.bin into TI_NspireCXCAS_4.2.0.532_N128.bin like you did in the screenshot.
It crashed also with the old boot2.img and old OS when I tried it last week.

Hmm, that's weird, it has never happened on my window 7 system.

Suggestion: Please try to delete this registry key  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ScrapLab\kArmTI_x86_v1.81 and try again. It should work with a clean registry key, if not please report it back again.

Hi @cobalt

is it possible to update the OS of the kArmTI (or the Android emulator nspiroid) directly with the *.tcc-file?

Why would you want to do that, in the first place?

In the kArmTI-Menü "Link" there's the option "Send OS Update" which let's me choose a file.
But if I choose the *.tcc-file ist says "transfer failed. check the connection and try again". So this doens't seem to be a function to update the OS?

That kArmTI-Menu "Link" option "Send OS Update", is there only to send 'special files' like, for eg. to install the previous version of ndless (outdated by now), eg,
for ndless-v3.1-beta-r557, you can get the following from its  'How to Install':
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Locate the file ‘ndless_installer-.tno|tnc|tco|tcc‘ in the ‘calcbin/‘ directory of Ndless which matches your device type:
    * .tno: classic TI-Nspire
    * .tnc: classic TI-Nspire CAS
    * .tco: TI-Nspire CX
    * .tcc: TI-Nspire CX CAS
Send this file as an OS upgrade to the calculator.
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Please take note of a few things:
1. the OS update must match the version of the OS you have installed in kArmTI, eg for CX CAS the update file has to have the .tcc extension.
2. that OS update file, needs to be a specially prepared OS update file.
3. before you use that menu option you need to ensure that the USB link is in a 'connected state', ie, by using Menu 'Link->USB Link Connect' before hand.

As a final remark, I would only add that the easiest way to upgrade the OS file that kArmTI is using, is simply to download that new OS version from TI's download site or from TI-Planet and proceed as you would when preparing a new flash file to run on kArmTI (or Nspiroid for that matter). I've written a few notes (pdf's) on how to get you started with kArmTI, whose links you can still find in the topic's first page.

I hope this helps you with your doubts.
Have a nice day.

Sorry people, my bad...
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Anyway, no excuse for the post, sorry for your time once more,

No problem, you are welcome.

I'm glad that you fixed it by yourself. Actually, I just tried you example on OS4.2.0.532 and I was getting a slightly different solution.
Well, nvm, it only happens when you dare to do things  .