Working With An Evolving Android SDK

Image by netzkobold via Flickr Finishing up hacks and testing those with AndCooper 0.1 The problem with the Android SDK is it  is evolving so we have things that change form release to release and so I have had to ot hacks to get around those changing items such as the value of the target [...]

Emma Builds for AndCooper

Image via CrunchBase Emma Builds of the present SDK and the bleeding edge SDK will be downloadable today from the AndCoper project page by end of today. Because they are only for my distro an article with instructions so that you can build one for your distro will be posted under my profile at the [...]

AndCooper Instructions

I am finalizing the AndCooper Instructions: and testing for the 0.1 alpha release and thus the release will be over the weekend. It is not the experts in ANY that I am worried about. Its making it use-able for those who are not experts in Apache ANT. Its the little details such as an set [...]

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 [...]

AndCooper Reports Video

While I finish up the other reports, a video showing most of the AndCooper code analysis reports: You will notice not only we get UML diagrams within javadocs  but also some jdepend diagrams.

AndCooper 0.1 Progress

Just tracking down some final errors so that I can release the first alpha 0.1 version of the AndCooper Android Application Build Tool. Screenshots of one of the code analysis reports: I will dress-up the reports later. 0.1 release should be shortly.