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YouTubeThe week before last, whilst browsing Reddit I came across a blog by the name of “Android Gripes.” The name is perhaps a bit misleading, as it’s not actually a blog by an Android user hoping to spur Google into making UI improvements, as I would have expected. It is, rather, a blog by a self-proclaimed Apple fanboy (though he’s recently edited his about page to remove that admission) complaining about Android for the sake of… well, complaining about Android. (more…)
Archive for April, 2011
Android UI/UX gripes
Saturday, April 16th, 2011Android NDK Stack Trace Script
Saturday, April 9th, 2011I’ve finally started doing some Android development in earnest, and because I have a stubborn dislike of Java, I’ve decided to use the Native Development Kit. The native development kit allows you to write “performance-critical” parts of your application in C or C++ code, which is then compiled to platform-native ARM or MIPS instructions. The NDK is something of an unfriendly beast; it makes interaction with most regular Android libraries very difficult, and debugging native code on Android is none too easy. Although Google provides a script which can attach gdb to your native code, I’ve not yet figured out how to use it properly; every time I execute it, gdb complains about missing debugging symbols and libraries and seems to be unable to do anything useful. (I don’t imagine it’s too difficult, but I haven’t spent much time on it—I’ve not needed to do much debugging yet.) (more…)