Having threads to do some heavy lifting and long processing in the background is pretty standard stuff. Very often you would want to notify or prompt the user after the background task has finished by displaying a Dialog. The displaying
Android applications that use the MyLocationOverlay class crash on the new Droid X
Update: August 29, 2010 Tested this myself on a friend’s phone and this bug is definitively not fixed yet despite the recent Motorola updates! The burden is on you (the developer) to fix this if you want your applications to
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The latest Android OS version 2.2 (“Froyo”) was announced at the Google I/O conference on the 11th of May. As you already probably know it adds multiple enhancements like tethering, wifi hotspot functionality, full support for Flash, etc. Since I
Install Subversion and Subclipse for Eclipse on Ubuntu
If you do not have Eclipse installed yet, run: sudo apt-get install eclipse Install Subversion sudo apt-get install subversion Install the Subversion plugin for Eclipse Get the Java bindings for Subversion: sudo apt-get install libsvn-java Now we are ready to
How to connect your Android phone to Ubuntu to do development, testing, installations or tethering
If you do any Android development in Ubuntu it is much better to test your applications on a real device rather than just relying on the emulator. If you just connect the phone to the computer through USB and run
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September 1st 2010 – Version (2.3 Beta) is available. It adds the following new features: A “Dry Run” mode. In this mode the application will only display and log the changes to the file/directory names without actually renaming the files