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”: [...]

Up until now this WordPress blog has been hosted by DreamHost, a company with a good reputation and a solid knowledge in hosting. Unfortunately, the server we’ve been located on, Trafficante, have lately had some problems with stability and performance and DreamHost have also had some MySQL stability issues. This, plus the fact that we’ve [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop (Dell Precision M90) I’ve been having problems with getting the sound to work properly. I could get some applications working if I would change the sound default from ALSA to OSS, but it wouldn’t work in Firefox (e.g. youtube etc.) Seems this is not an [...]