Eclipse

Android Studio – A Better IDE?

Beren Erchamion
December 14, 2013

I’ve used tools from IntelliJ for years, however for Android I’ve always used Eclipse. When Google announced Android Studio, a collaboration between Google and IntelliJ makers JetBrains, I was pretty excited. My development needs are pretty simple, but I’ve always…

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Graphics, UI, and Fun with Appcelerator ATS

Beren Erchamion
July 24, 2012

In my previous posts I’ve looked at getting started and then at the basics of UI, events, and some side notes on the practical side of working with Android devices: In this post I’ll bite the bullet and pull out…

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Mobile Programming

Android Pt.3 Snags in the Emulator and Bluetooth Explorations

Beren Erchamion
January 1, 2012

Continuing my work with Android – I seem to have hit a snag. When I start emulators the process hangs and the emulator never loads properly. I can see adb.exe and the emulator-arm.exe running in the process list, but nothing…

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Technical Review

Taking a Break with Ubuntu 8.1

Beren Erchamion
November 8, 2008

Sometimes its nice to take a break and goof around with an OS. I’ve used RedHat, SuSE, and Fedora and they are all nice, but there’s a lot of buzz around Ubuntu. I had a laptop lying around and decided…

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