Archive for December, 2010

Android source jars for IDEs

Posted: December 27, 2010 in Android, Java

Okay folks, source jars for IDE debugging are in the Maven repos at: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/android/android/  

ANDROID_SDK_HOME HACK

Posted: December 25, 2010 in Android, Java

If you sdk is now suddenly not pointing to the place where your avds are set ANDROID_SDK_HOME to where the .android folder is.

You might be wondering why I would spend so much time on integrating things via an ANT or Gradle build tool. The whole idea was to be able to do full application testing from beginning to end similar to the way OEMs do framework testing. In other words the developer should be able to run [...]

Hacking the android SDK

Posted: December 20, 2010 in Android, Java
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Most of us need the stacktrace, mapping, seed files of our proguard runs and log statements stripped.  Thus, take my proguard.cfg copy and change the one in your sdk to mine os that you have that when you create new projects. Oh, you  did not know you could change certain files in the SDK to [...]

First, if you are running android tools 8.0.1 from eclipse than everything works fine. Second, to run build using android tools 8.0.1 or higher outside of eclipse you must use ant 1.8.1 or higher. Most Linux version in theri beta/test repos already have compiled ant 1.8.1 binaries to install to run ant 1.8.1 form the [...]

Android Market Improvement!

Posted: December 11, 2010 in Android, Java
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I found some gems in the Android Market Improvements announcement: 1. Refund window deceasd to 15 minutes form 24 hours! 2. Being able to target apps to screen sizes and apk size increased to 50 megabytes for games along with GL texture compression targeting. These changes are slated to be rolled out in the next [...]