Well, that was fast! I decided to give Subversion a whirl with the ZXing codebase before signing off for the night… and I apparently chose well when I selected TortoiseSVN as my Subversion client for Windows!
It went very smoothly! Here’s the details:
Updated based on feedback from the ZXing team.
Tonight I decided to try my hand again at building an Android app – this time, one that should in theory be easy and yet feature-rich enough to learn from. It was far from the simple experiment it ought to have been, so I’m sharing my experience to hopefully save you the reader some time if you try this yourself!
ZXing is the heart of the Barcode Scanner app for Android. It’s nifty though it doesn’t take full advantage of my Droid’s camera resolution and there are some other tricks I’d like to see it do (such as activate the flash for improved lighting, replacing the constant autofocus with a forced focus, and perhaps adding some decoding protocols that aren’t supported in the Droid build of this, at least as of Barcode Scanner v3.1). My main goal was to simply rebuild the app for the Android target via a Windows host, then play around with the code to learn more about Android coding.
I’ve been fiddling with making bootable flash drives lately, via UBCD4Win for the most part. It’s actually come in handy a few times in the last month alone and the new v3.50 just came out today! In the course of this I’ve learned a couple of useful things that might be worthwhile to others working on this.
I got an alarming popup from Windows Defender tonight: it had detected Win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file. That’s pretty worrisome and unexpected! I looked at the file but it seemed uninteresting. The only non-comment entries were:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
I recently upgraded to Windows Vista Business (SP1) from WinXP Pro. It went relatively well but I was annoyed today when any attempt to use Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” feature from IE 7 caused it to crash! (the “Indiv01.key” error).
Ok, not-so-quick considering the time since I wrote the last one.
What all does one write on a blog that’s purposely sanitized so it won’t offend past, present or future employers? Something intended to be neutral and unassuming? Frankly not a heck of a lot.
*Sigh*
Hmm… I got my domain here about 8 years ago and as far as web things go I’ve not done a thing with it. I wonder if there’s some sort of award for having the oldest “Under Construction” page? 