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Tag Archives: Android
Thoughts on mobile app crash detection and recovery
As I work on updates to my app, I’m happy to see it’s working quite well. However, inevitably there will be some boundary case that causes an exception, and as I add features (and more importantly, persistent settings) an addition … Continue reading
Android, Honeycomb and the missing menu button…
I’ve been giving some thought to the loss of the menu button (replaced – in a way – by the action bar) in Honeycomb lately and I have to say it’s a damned peculiar choice. The argument is that by … Continue reading
Building the Android emulator for Windows
Today I’ve been investigating an argument parsing bug in Android’s emulator on Windows (a bug that may affect all platforms). The version I’m seeing the bug was in the Android SDK r12 version of the emulator [Yep, r13′s out – … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, build, Cygwin, emulator, Git, MinGW, qemu, Windows
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Building ZXing for Android part 3 – Using Eclipse
Several iterations of updates below:
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Tagged Android, Ant, Barcode Scanner, building, Droid, Eclipse, subversion, success, Windows, ZXing
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Building ZXing for Android part 2 – Subversion!
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! … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Barcode Scanner, building, Droid, subversion, success, TortoiseSVN, Windows, ZXing
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Building ZXing for Android – lessons learned
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, Ant, Barcode Scanner, building, Droid, success, Windows, ZXing
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