Getting Localized Date for Today in Android
I've been doing it all wrong. As most seasoned developers know, making an application that works for many countries and languages is pretty much a requirement of modern software development.
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PDF Creation for Android
So my latest app, Photog Companion generates PDF documents on Android. I was thinking about supporting mark-up of existing PDF's. That's probably not all that difficult to implement myself but I don't want to spend the time learning the rest of the PDF spec. So, I did some research and even though a lot of people were saying bad things about the company I decided to contact iText to see what a license would cost. I was expecting something like a $500 developer license.
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Designed For Tablets
The Google Play Store interface for publishers was repeatedly telling me that I needed to design my application, Photog Companion Model Release, for Tablets. The confusing thing for me was that I already provided alternate layouts for tablets and went to great pains to make sure it worked nicely on tablets.
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Eclipse Hangs with Resolving Error Markers
This problem drove me nuts for hours today. I've recently upgraded to Eclipse "Kepler" with a completely new install. Everything went great for a while, but the next time I started Eclipse it wouldn't actually finish loading. Sometimes it would launch but never highlight my code. A bit of digging showed that the Android Development Tools were hanging on a process described as "Resolving Error Markers".
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Android Date Glitch
My daughter's Samsung Galaxy Player had it's Google Play Store suddenly stop working. The error it threw was "No connection." I tried clearing the cache, clearing updates on Play, installing a new version of the Play store and just about everything else I could think of before resetting to factory defaults.
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My new app
After nearly two years of off-and-on development I finally finished it! MilesTrac Online integrates everything suggested by people who used my old MilesTrac Free app but were beyond the scope of the original design.
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My new Android App
I just launched my new Android app and accompanying cloud service for tracking mileage logs for business and taxes:
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Finding Google Account on Multiple Android Versions
If you want to develop for the most Android devices, chances are you will run across something you need to do differently depending on the age of the device at hand. Newer API's contain different features from old ones. There's a slick little trick whereby you can handle multiple API versions easily. For instance, finding the Google email address(es) on the phone is a challenge for anything that bridges the "Eclair" threshold.
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