Entries Tagged 'Android' ↓

Today I was trying to setup the Android SDK (version 1.6_r1) on the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). After having installed the ADT Eclipse plugin and pointed out the Android SDK directory in the settings I immediately ran into the following error: Failed to get the adb version: Cannot run program “/home/johan/devtools/android/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.6_r1/tools/adb”: [...]

Assume that you on your desktop computer browse to a web page with the following page source Clicking on the first link you expect your browser to start a new tab and navigate to the url that was specified in the href. If you click on the second link you would expect that the browser [...]

Working with external storage in the Android emulator could be a little tricky and the documentation is not easy to find. I’ll try to give a brief walk through of the steps needed to create a SD card image, mount the image in Linux, put content on it and use it in the emulator. Creating [...]

One thing that often confuses developers new to the Android platform is the handling of layout resources. The xml files describing the layouts are magically transfered into a more efficient binary format behind the scenes and hidden away – leaving the developer with a static reference to the resources via the R.java file. By using [...]

Last friday I attended an excellent session at Øredev 2008, on Android by Mike Jennings from Google. At the end of the presentation Mike show the code for a simple application with a bouncing blue ball, controlled by the accelerometer. What stroke me was that the git of the application was 85 lines of code, [...]

Hi there, Øredev was great success, especially all the people and the organization – a big Thank You to Michael and Emily for making this possible, you rock! Now, it was really awesome to exchange Android games with Mike Jennings fro the Android team, and get him excited over the recent Android port to the [...]

Since the release of the Android SDK 1.0, people (including me) have been complaining about the lack of connectivity for the very convenient Smack API to talk to Googles GTalk servers following http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/, see here. However, yesterday @Øredev, I met Mike Jennings from the Android team and together we looked into this problem over a [...]