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Arrrr.

September 24, 2011 Android, bloggerator, Site News No comments

As usual, I just can’t leave this place well enough alone. Changed the theme again. Just got bored with the last one. Dunno if the comic viewer will still work.

Also, took out the forums. Yay or nay… I dunno. Either way, spam botting was getting horrible, so I figured I should finally do something about it.

Right, so, Android… right. Uh… Yeah.

The last few months have been rather annoying on that front. My phone, a Motorola Cliq Titanium, had gotten possessed by The Devil. And by that, I mean that it had suddenly decided it was going to start freaking the hell out and randomly activate touches all over the screen.

It made testing programs a pain in the ass.

It also made dialing the phone, answering the phone, and everything else a pain as well.

So, I’ve mostly just been doing the whole “Game Design …in theory” thing. I’ve been working on getting game frameworks and stuff laid out

…in theory.

So yeah… nothing is actually done.

But, I just got a new phone a week ago or so. This time, it’s a spiffy new LG G2x. Yay. So, I’m rocking Android… 2.3.3 (God, I can’t believe I had to just look that up) instead of the Cliq’s asinine 1.5 BS.

Although, while trying to exorcise The Devil from the Cliq, I did kinda install 2.1 as one of my last ditch efforts.

So the Cliq has 2.1 now. …Still possessed, but hey, it looks better while its flipping shit, at least.

CHEDr.

July 29, 2011 Android, Development One comment

So, after a long period of silence, I’m back, for now.

I just released CHEDr. The Basic version anyways. I should have a free version up sometime soon as well,  maybe tomorrow. I should also be putting up some sort of infomation document/page for CHEDr too around the same time.

If anyone happens to buy the app, and has a problem before I can get those pages up, I’d suggest heading over to the forums and leaving a message. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Right now though, I’m fairly exhausted. I think I need to get some sleep.

Yahoo! Answers is useless.

May 23, 2011 Android, Comedy One comment

And it’s being a bitch.

Something had been on my mind lately, for no real reason, and I finally decided to post a question about it on Yahoo! Answers, just in the whole maybe-somebody-will-answer-this-at-some-point sort of way. This was the question:

In AndroidOS, why is R.string.id singular, while strings.xml is plural?

This has just been bugging me lately: In Android development, you use resource IDs to grab resources (such as a String). Most of the time, the format makes sense: To grab a resource (say, thisimage.jpg) from the “drawable” directory, you use “R.drawable.thisimage“. But in the case of Strings, the ID is more like R.string.hellostring, while the file for it is strings.xml.

Is there something going on behind the scenes where it ignores the ‘s’ on the end of the files name? Or is it that the file name is irrelevant, it just comes down to what is declared as a String in the xml? Could I rename strings.xml to purplecowsfromvenus.xml and still have it work?

Okay, fine, but when I submitted it, Yahoo tells me my question has been deleted because it violated the community guidelines. Maybe the question was too well written?

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