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, […]
error: undefined reference to ‘wifi_start_fstman’
Ah, the continuing saga of the far far away dream of building OmniRom Nougat for the LG G4. Yet again, another set of errors: [CODE] system/qcom/softap/sdk/qsap.c:705: error: undefined reference to […]
Function “appears in overlay but not in the base package”
Ah, OmniRom. Yes, I am still working on it. Hopefully you are not getting tired of these errors, but I find it helpful to log them here, and hopefully others […]
Failed to mmap at expected address
In the continuing OmniRom saga, another day with another fail: [CODE]FAILED: /bin/bash -c “(mkdir -p out/target/product/h811/obj/APPS/CaptivePortalLogin_intermediates/oat/arm64/ && rm -f out/target/product/h811/obj/APPS/CaptivePortalLogin_intermediates/oat/arm64/package.odex ) && (find out/target/common/obj/APPS/CaptivePortalLogin_intermediates/ -maxdepth 1 -name \”classes*.dex\” | sort […]
To skia or not to skia?
What is skia? Well, skia is used for drawing 2d graphics, and that is pretty important in Android. More specifics can be read here at their website. Essentially, it is […]