Meh. Wasted an hour trying to sort this out. The answer happened to be buried in some Android code. The fact that Android is open source is a cool thing–but I shouldn’t have to dig through that source kit just to figure out the answer to something that could be better documented. When declaring a [...]
I like XMLBuddy in Eclipse, but it interferes with the Android SDK XML editor.
So I wanted just the plain-jane JavaDocs for the Android SDK. They may be ugly, but they’re extremely useful: I especially like the triple frame setup to get a sense of which packages and classes exist in the system. So I downloaded the Android source kit, modified the build files, and here they are, as [...]
It has been my experience that most software developers, and many product managers for that matter, have absolutely no sense of UI design. After playing a little bit with the Google Android Dev phone, the following things immediately jump out at me that are just wrong about the gPhone. (1) How many different ways do [...]
The steps I found on the ‘net seems to work. Remove the SIM card from your iPhone and insert it into the Google Android developer phone. When you start the phone for the first time, when the phone asks for your Google account, you need to press the menu button, and select “APN”. Add a [...]
When creating a drawing program it’s nice to be able to center the contents of your view if the content area of the JScrollPane is larger than the contents of your document. By default your contents are slammed to the upper-left; however, by using the Scrollable interface you can prevent the viewport containing your content [...]
You know embedded software and embedded microprocessors are everywhere when you find a reference design for an embedded microprocessor system for a vacuum cleaner. They’re using a processor more powerful and faster than the old TRS-80 in order to control the speed of the motor. And why not? The basic design could be reduced to [...]