As I continue to work on my java chess engine for Android, I’ve decided on a name for it, “beginner chess engine”. I just posted the latest commits here: https://github.com/alaskalinuxuser/apps_small/commit/cda1b197c7d48b71f45b6ce001cfa6a9482a1ba0 […]
Google’s Play Console App
Most people who are placing their apps on the Google Play Store are already aware of the Android version of the Play Console App. It’s an app to monitor the […]
SanDisk Sansa: Rockboxed!
A while back my brother gave me a SanDisk Sansa. It’s a great little music player about the size of a zippo lighter. In and of itself, that would be […]
Android Studio emulator stopped launching after upgrade in Ubuntu 16
I don’t usually re-post something that someone else figured out, but it took me a long time to figure this out, so I thought I would share here. The problem […]
Making an Android chess app….
Lately I’ve been amusing myself in my spare time by learning how to make a chess engine. I don’t want anyone to think that I came up with this on […]
MechDome just got a whole lot more expensive….
I was really excited as an Android developer (probably an insult to real Android app makers, but I try…) when I heard about MechDome. If you read any of my […]
Does a mobile cell phone booster really work?
As may be evident by the name of the blog, as well as my username, I live in Alaska. Alaska is a really big state. Alaska also has relatively poor […]
Building Android Oreo, error: ADDITIONAL_DEFAULT_PROPERTIES must not be set
So, round one of building Android Oreo. Specifically giving an early try for SlimRoms and OmniRom, both of which have started an Oreo build system. Obviously, anything at this stage […]
CompTIA Network+ N10-006 exam
Among other certifications, one of the certs that I needed to renew was my CompTIA Network+ exam. The current series is N10-006, and to take the test locally through Pearson […]
Using PicoLisp on your Android phone, the easy way!
I’ve been spending some free time having fun and testing out a text adventure game by the Quiet Learner, called Dr. Theobold, written in PicoLisp. The problem I found though, […]