Android Integrated Development Environments

	Android Studio	Eclipse	AIDe
Installation:	Good on Linux	Good on Windows	Good on Tablet
Interface	Google style clean	Lots of tools	Good for tablet
Debugging	Better debug pane	Inconsistent and slow	LogCat on device
Compilation	Slow	Slow	Slow
Speed	Okay on Linux	Slow on Windows	Okay on tablet
Publishing	Fluid and keystore built in	Multi-step and awkward	Fluid and keystore built in

We Work Tech Meet Up in Hollywood

A fireside chat with Grindr's Lukas Sliwka covered the following:

• Scalability from PHP to Java and Ruby on Rails.
• Do not reinvent the wheel
• Sanitizing member profiles
• Approving user uploads
• User analytics to user preferences
• Pattern recognition and heuristics
• Shortened deliverable cycles.
• App ratings and client app crashes

More Enhancements to the W.A.R. app at Google Play

The Widespread Augmented Reality networking app at Google Play allows both photos and notes to be posted at geographical points of interest.

The Camera activity implies an intent with:

Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, pictureFile);
startActivityForResult(intent, TAKE_PICTURE);

The EXTRA_OUTPUT is passed as the "data" argument to:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

The data is then passed to the activity ImageView field with the following conversions:

case TAKE_PICTURE:
       
        try {
        Uri picFile = data.getData();
        String picPath = picFile.getPath();
        yourSelectedImage=BitmapFactory.decodeFile(picPath,ops);
        getChosenImage().setImageBitmap(yourSelectedImage);

The Note activity is proprietary, for now. Notes are saved as images and BLOBs and therefore not susceptible to nosy bots or web crawlers.

Sign up with an anonymous handle at SpiderOnFire (a reference to enhanced web crawling).

Recover Full Capacity of USB Drive

1) Type "DISKPART" from the Command Prompt 
2) Type "LIST DISK" to see what number your USB drive is listed as.
3) Type "SELECT DISK 2" 
4) Type "SELECT PARTITION 1" 
5) Type "DELETE PARTITION". 
6) Type "CLEAN". 
7) Type "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY" to create a new, full-size partition.
8) Type "EXIT"
Now create a boot disk with http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

W.A.R. Party enhancement

Major enhancement to Widespread Augmented Reality app with the Gallery button: W.A.R. Party

SpiderOnFire and the Companion Android app

I maintain a database of geotagged images at SpiderOnFire. The companion Kit Kat targeted app at Google Play retrieves the images but does not resize them. Rather I have the PHP download script do the work. Here is my code:

array('header'=>'Connection: close\r\n'))); $orig = file_get_contents("$dirfile",false, $context ); $imgstr = imagecreatefromstring($orig); $width = imagesx($imgstr); $height = imagesy($imgstr); $newwidth = '75'; $newheight = '50'; $thumb = imagecreatetruecolor($newwidth, $newheight); imagecopyresized($thumb, $imgstr, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newwidth, $newheight, $width, $height); header("Content-Type: image/jpg"); imagejpeg($thumb); //image as jpg imagedestroy($thumb); imagedestroy($imgstr); ?>

Widespread Augmented Reality on Android Demo

Get the WAR app targeted for Android Kit Kat

Get the WAR app targeted for Ice Cream Sandwich and lower

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