20120219 Android SDK with Open JDK 1.7 and IntelliJ IDEA 11

I updated my installation of IntelliJ IDEA to the latest version and suddenly I couldn’t compile any Android project, getting a message telling me the .class files couldn’t be found. Very puzzling! I tried upgrading the JDK from Openjdk 6 to Open JDK 7, but the Android SDK refused to compile because it wanted a [...]

20110930 RegExpert & its postmortem

I finally published my first game ever! It’s called RegExpert, and if you like regular expressions, you’ll love it! If you don’t, you’ll learn to love them both! Also, since every game must have one, I’ve also written a lengthy postmortem. It’s the first game postmortem I ever write too, so I’m not sure if [...]

20110803 Intriguing IntelliJ IDEA behaviour

Sometimes I type this in: ArrayList<String> out = new ArrayList<String>(); and when I come back to the code, IDEA has replaced it with: ArrayList<String> out = new ArrayList<~>(); Been looking for answers to this, but with no luck. Even more mysteriously, if I click over the tilde, it gets expanded back to String! IDEA is [...]

20101212 Instantanea

Instantanea is my latest invention. A simple camera application for Android devices, with an emphasis on speed and ease of use. I usually go around with a pocket camera in my bag, but since I got the Nexus One I’m tending to leave the camera home and simply use the phone to take pictures. But [...]

20101013 Event Listeners Day

I first stumbled upon this piece of code from the BluetoothChat sample: mSendButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {             public void onClick(View v) {                 // Send a message using content of the edit text widget                 TextView view [...]