20100605 Where is the JDK!?

/usr/lib/jvm/ has all the JDK’s you might have installed. For example, these are the contents of my /usr/lib/jvm/ folder: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   14 2009-11-01 11:19 java-1.6.0-openjdk -> java-6-openjdk drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-08-05 09:59 java-6-openjdk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 2010-05-03 20:27 java-6-sun -> java-6-sun-1.6.0.20 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2010-06-05 [...]

20100505 Messing with OpenGL ES (in Android)

The emulator vs the physical machines gl.glLineWidth is ignored in the HTC Magic (all lines have width = 1.0), whereas it is honoured on the emulator it also seems like the emulator performs some sort of polygon clipping instead of culling triangles when at least one of the vertexes is out of the frustrum — [...]

20100303 Seen, gone.

“Seen, gone.” is my first (serious) incursion in Android development. Yeah! As the description says: Take a picture, watch it morph into something different – yet related to its true origin. And before you can blink twice, it’s gone, destroyed by the very same hands that created it. To escape from the usual demoscene non-interactive [...]

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 [...]

20090824 Back to Java (for Android)

Some months ago I began tinkering with programming for PSP. I installed the toolchain and all that, but kind of abandoned it because although the ps2dev guys created a really nice environment to develop in, it still felt bad and precarious in a certain manner: whatever you did was in a way illegal. You had [...]