In Android Java Applications we use a logging system to record log events including errors, debugging, etc. Log levels are: Verbose 2 Debug 3 Info 4 Warn 5 Error 6 Assert 7 The default log level set by the Android OS is 4 and above. Its the reverse for the levels of detail in that [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Logging the Android Way
Posted: July 19, 2010 in AndroidTags: Android, Debugging, Java, Programming
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If you are on Linux, when Google updated the SDK in May they did a soft update that did not change the revision version to correct an aapt on Linux. To get rid of the error go into the avd manager and delete 1.5 and 1.6 and instruct the avd manager to download and install [...]
Useful Tools
Posted: July 12, 2010 in AndroidTags: Android, AppInventor, Computer programming, Eclipse, Google, Handhelds, OpenFrameworks, Programming
Good morning and welcome to the beginning of the Android ‘Land-grab’. Some useful tools: 1. OpenNCF has published their sdk for andorid and an android add on at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-nfc/files/ 2. The AppInventor site went live: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ Its a visual programming tool to develop android applications. 3. OpenFrameworks has released an android version for NDK development: [...]
Game name is changed to TranquilityBase, I still have to add the input pipe-line features. And what do we do about sound? Yes, its true that the moon had no atmosphere to give sound to the engine thrust shock waves. Mars has an atmosphere, not dense as ours but there is one. Thus, the sound [...]
This is what the Lunar Lander sample looks like with some code and UI cleanedup. Notice that I took off the game start, stop, pause, resume functions from the options menu. But it could be better as there s no input pipeline example and touch events are not even integrated within the game. I will [...]
With all this talk about a probable FB competitor named GoogleMe the proof would be a GoogleMe connector in Android 3.0. I have yet to see anything, of course it still may hidden at the moment.
Android Code Samples Complaint
Posted: July 1, 2010 in AndroidTags: Android, Google, Integrated development environment, Programming
Like I never complain, right? While I appreciate the hard work every Android OS contributor has put in thus far some of the android code samples leave a lot to be desired. Code style mess-ups like if statements without brackets, parameters not finalized, etc. Still using the old test sub-folder in project instead of separate [...]
