I’m developing an application using GSON for use with JSON-based Restful web services. Now it didn’t seem like it at the time, but there turns out that there is a conflict between HTC’s 2.2.1 release of Android and *ANY* app using GSON library. The symptom you’ll get will be a “Unable to find Type: your.fully.qualified.ClassName” [...]
If you are needing to use the “flash_image” utility program ( perhaps to get ClockworkMod3 on your system? perhaps because you need want to update to CyanogenMod7? ) and you get a “not found” message when you go to run it like this: $ su # flash_image flash_image: not found Here’s a link where you [...]
If you are using adb and attempt to get root access by running ‘su’ and instead get the message “Permission Denied”, then there are two things you must make sure you’ve done. 1. Make sure you have rooted your phone. This is complicated and I won’t go into it here – it differs based on [...]
If you are using ADB tools to work on your phone but having problems accessing the sdcard, then it isn’t enough to just unmount the drive from your pc. To remedy this you must put your phone into “Charge Only” mode before connecting it to your pc. To do this you need to go to [...]
There are 3 important methods to override in AsyncTask. 1. doInBackground : this is where the meat of your background processing will occur. 2. onPreExecute : show your ProgressDialog here ( showDialog ) 3. onPostExecute : hide your ProgressDialog here ( removeDialog or dismissDialog ) If you make your AsyncTask subclass as an inner class [...]
I was putting some Video into an Android application for the first time. I was hoping this wouldn’t be too difficult and was delighted to find the VideoView component. It was really simple to add a VideoView to my layout: <VideoView android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/videoView"/> Then I prepared the video and added it to my project [...]
I was so excited to get the new ADT installed and try out all of it’s new features that I was updating the ADT through eclipse and the SDK through the SDK Manager. The SDK Manager threw up this message box: On windows this typically means that a program is using that folder…Please momentarily deactivate [...]
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We’ve switched over to using JQuery from Prototype at my current employer. We’d previously used Prototype-1.5 for a long time and had a lot of dependencies to it. When we first started using JQuery it was version 1.1.3.1. There was no JQueryUI at that time. So, we currently use JQuery-1.2.6 and JQueryUI-1.6rc2 and I really [...]