Just a little video of OPhone emulator which is based on Android 1.0: You only have to rename your Google Android emulator.cfg file, found in /home/.android, the first tiem this emulator is run and after that its not required and can be renamed back to emulator.cfg so you stil have the Google Andorid emulator functionalties [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Damn-it I like this new UI from China Mobile: You have to try this UI out. So much easier to go from screen to screen. Oh it is based on Andoird 1.0, that means you have disable emualtor.cfg from you current SDK to get it to launch and you do that by renaming the file.
2nd Android SDK-OPhone
Posted: July 30, 2009 in Android, Java, MobileTags: Android, China, ChinaMobile
China Mobile has pushed out their OPhone SDK which is based on Android OS with JIL web widgets.
Driving Two Android Projects At Once
Posted: July 29, 2009 in Android, Java, MobileTags: Android, Apache Ant
Usually, when developing a java jar or NDK *so shared library you have two projects the main one where you do the apk and the other one where you develop the library. The targets I came up with: This way I can point the IDE java builder to use this javalib.incremental target and thus have [...]
If you wondering why there are no 3D games for Android pay attnetion to this OpenGL thread onthe android developers list. Just because we have OEM sign ups for Android devices does not mean we are out-of-the-woods yet as far as being competitive with other mobile platforms. The patch has beeen reviewed. From what I [...]
Is ANT support Broken in Android SDK?
Posted: July 28, 2009 in Android, Java, MobileTags: Android, Apache Ant, Google, Java, Motorola
As you know if you read my posts on Android SDK customization that I customize the Android SDK to supply better ANT scripts upon executing the create project command. Here is what I mean by broke, mobile development is different in that we have more one-person-shops than say in enterprise development. Thus, having default build [...]
Real MultiTouch on Android
Posted: July 27, 2009 in Android, Java, MobileTags: Android, Multi-touch
Image by marketingfacts via Flickr I will point you to the real hacker that imlementd Multi-Touch on Android 1.0, Luke Hucthison. Article with the video is here. That being said due to the Multi-Touch patent do not post to Google operated Android lists asking about multi-touch as the Goolge engineers cannot discuss anything involving that [...]
Image via CrunchBase ANT task for obfuscating using Proguard in Android development: Notice the extra -optimizations command. That is required to turn off a new proguard feature to make it work.
Image via Wikipedia As you know that the only way you get EMMA code coverage currently is to use an error prone approach of changing stuff to get your application temproarily in an Android build. I would rather have less error prone approach. The whole diea is to have some test coverage indicatos hgowever due [...]
Template Engine for Android Development
Posted: July 24, 2009 in Android, Java, MobileTags: Android
Image via Wikipedia Because I develop Android Applications that often use both Java and Webview I have been searching for a template engine that could work equally with java source, html, and even sql. Something easy as: or html-wise: Notice because the commands are enclosed by comments will work in all IDEs. How to target [...]
