20111102 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 3: Lubuntu

As I’m now fully embarked on my experimental setup, today I tried to kill two birds with one stone and set up a virtualised Android development environment try out yet another distribution I did something similar a couple of days ago: I created a virtual machine, installed Arch Linux on it and assembled an “on [...]

20110614 Android’s activity stack and pressing HOME

I was having a huge issue with the application I’m working on. The idea is to have a MainActivity and a GameActivity; when you’re in MainActivity and click on a certain button, you get GameActivity. So far so good. The problem was that if I pressed HOME and then clicked again on the application launcher, [...]

20100711 2012 (Eclipse Helios remix)

That said, it happened after a system crash, so Eclipse hadn’t been shut properly. And after killing Eclipse (because it wouldn’t stop popping up error windows) and reopening it again, it seems the evil goblin of mass destruction and agony had gone away. Thankfully an outline wasn’t available!

20100629 Diff’ing with RapidSVN

I thought I had to enter “diff” in the diff tool field, but I was wrong: it didn’t work. Apparently RapidSVN expects a graphical application instead of a text-mode application that runs on a terminal. But fear not! There’s an application for this. It’s called meld. So… sudo apt-get install meld And in RapidSVN → [...]

20090825 “is the CPU pegged?”, and friends

Lessons I learnt today is the CPU pegged? When is the CPU pegged? message shows up in the LogCat console tab, it means you are not filling in quickly enough the audio buffer for an AudioTrack. Or that it seems so. I happened to locate where the message is in Android’s source code, but since [...]