Android PMD ruleset

Image by neo.wave via Flickr Xavier Le Vourch   had made a post describing how to modify the PMD ruleset to be more Android specific. My AndCooper-modified-pmd with his ruleset enclosed(jar download). For AndCooper 0.2 the mdoified PMD will have some more rules specific to Android. You will refer to the ruleset as andcooper.xml in your [...]

Fennec on Android

Image by Getty Images via Daylife A lot of talk has been about getting Fennec on Android since the Android NDK release.  First, my bias. I am in some talks  and or discussion about this with Mozilla . If I was to do it one would have to target webview functionality and work backwards to [...]

WebView Obfuscation Magic

This is what the obfuscation prepaation ANT script code looks like: Than during the release.produciton target before the apkbuilder task you make empty css-not-obfuscated.css and js-not-obfuscate.js files and thus your import wil always be: import css-non-obfuscated.css import css-bofuscated.css import js-non-obfuscate.js import js-0obfuscated.js import js-compressed-3rdparty.js Notice that you will always have the import js 3rdparty compressed [...]

WebView Magic in Android

Image by netzkobold via Flickr Part of the difficulty in using WebView has to do with the build, test, release process. Let me explain. You are importing or linking the importing of css and js to different locations depending upon whether you are testing or producing files for release. Obviously importing both the non shrinked [...]

Webview-Code Obfuscation-Minifization

Those of you using WebView fully as a mobile RIA or as a way to embed application help html files you have probably been searching for a way to obfuscate and shrink the files. Not just js, but also css as well. You can drive the YUI-compressor library through the javaFlight ant task. It is [...]

StartUp HeartAche

Here is a set of reasons why AndCooper Build Tool, extensions to  MetaWidget to support AndroSQL, and etc have been delayed on getting released. I do not know how to go about describing this. Mobilebytes is not entirey founded as a one person founder startup.  It somewhat has a cofounder in training. Right now the [...]

Android Hero

Details of Android Hero(HTC), via TechCrunch. Full customized UI and full flash support, coming this summer.

JDepend Task for Android

There is somewhat a trick to get JDepend ot wokr for an Andorid Application build: Notice, you have to declare the path to where your jdepend.properties file is located. Once, that is done your task looks like: Nice and simple.

SignJar Target

Image by netzkobold via Flickr While I polish the AndCooper release and directions, I will publish some ANT atrget example specific to Android.  How about a signjar task? SignJar: The release.production target is just the apkbuilder task and you have set to signed not true so that the apk does not get signed witht the [...]

AndCooper 0.1 Alpha Release, Tonight

The Andr0id Java Application Build tool called AndCooper is being released tonight as 0.1 Alpha. Included with this release is a modifid PMD.jar with a very alpha PMD ruleset for Andorid that goes beyond the PMD Android ruleset. No matter what Continuous Integration server you may be running its just simple drop the stuff in [...]