Life by bits & numbers
Using the latest version of Google Goggles on Android, you can automatically solve Sudoku. This is what a little creativity paired with technology does – it brings fun and innovation!
Check out the video of this in action!
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The rumors have it that Android 2.4 codenamed Ice Cream is expected this summer in June-July and the release will be announced at the Google/IO.
What’s next in store for Android releases? Will the next release going to be named “Jello” or maybe “Jam”? I personally vote for “Jello”
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Just installed the new Android SDK – 2.3 and wondering where’s “ADB”? Don’t worry it’s there.
In there recent release of the Android 2.3 codenamed “Gingerbread” the SDK’s directory was a little restructured. In particular the ADB (Android debug bridge) the tool that is used to communicate with the Android emulator instances and connected device has been moved. Previously you could find it in the
path_to_your_Android_SDK_installation/tools
folder.
But since the Android 2.3 (or API 9) the /tools folder was renamed to /platform-tools folder, so if you are wondering why suddenly your >adb command does not work – this is the reason and updating the PATH should fix it.
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You are getting the following error:
android Error generating final archive: Debug certificate expired on …
One day when you opened your Eclipse with Android tool chain installed, suddenly you see this error, which may seem weird because you know that Eclipse uses just some random certificate for debugging and so why is it expired and what to do.
Simply delete the keystore file which is located in
%USERHOME%/.android/debug.keystore (on Windows)
or
~/.android/debug.keystore (on Linux and OS X)
Restart your eclipse and you are all set.
The reason to this is that the debug certificate is set to expire every year or 365 days.
If you do not wish to be bothered by this again in a year, you can use the keytool executable from the Android tool chain to generate a certificate with a longer expiration period.
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This is a great comics I came across, very concise and true!
I especially liked the dinosaur. BlackBerry are dinosaur outdated both in the features and especially from the development perspective. I covered this before in my Android vs. BlackBerry development post.
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In a recent blog post, Google announced that it is significantly expanding payment support both for developers and the users.
Developers in 29 countries will be able to sell their apps and users from 32 countries will be able to buy paid apps. The most recently added countries in which the Android users will be able to buy apps are: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan.
Addition to support of paid application distribution is expanded to the developers in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.
Android is closing the paid application gap with the iPhone quite fast, while BlackBerry still lags behind.
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