20101025 Converting ‘My Tracks’ KML files for DDMS

KML files store geographical information about paths. They can be generated with applications such as Android’s My Tracks application, and in theory we should be able to load them into the emulator, using the DDMS Eclipse Plug-in, to debug and test applications which depend on the user’s location without having to be actually out in [...]

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 [...]

20100913 Misclinklanea, 3

Solar powered hotspots. Beautiful and exciting story. More like these, please –these projects fascinate me! ~ The Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (Spain’s equivalent to DEFRA) doesn’t get it: the new version of its own cartographic and satellite maps viewer (SIGPAC) will use Silverlight. Yet another failed opportunity to jump onto [...]

20100911 Misclinklanea, 2

Broadcom open source their wireless drivers. YES! The driver, while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the native mac80211 stack. It supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting additional chips in the future, including mac80211-aware embedded chips. Having working, native drivers [...]

20100909 Misclinklanea

Mozilla Labs Gaming looks interesting – specially the fact that they don’t seem to be focusing on desktop platforms only (see the reference to touch events). Having good references is always a good thing. I’m not sure about the horse power of current mobile platforms for running browser applications, though… And what’s with the pixelated, [...]