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 cell phone coverage, in my opinion. Often when driving around, I will loose signal, drop calls, or even have no …

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 is a pre-alpha, more or less just a rebranded AOSP build. Still, it's fun to check it out and see …

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 View costs \$295! That is a hefty chunk of change. However, I need this certificate for my work, so I …

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, was that I am not often at my main computer, where I have PicoLisp installed. I needed a solution to …

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 'wifi_start_fstman'
system/qcom/softap/sdk/qsap.c:714: error: undefined reference to 'wifi_stop_fstman'
system …

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 will also. Previously, we looked at ways to use \<add-resource> to add functions into a rom, but here we are …

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 …

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 used for making menus and drawings.

Now you are wondering why we are talking about it. Well, because we had …

OmniRoms Nougat. An elusive dream of mine is building OmniRoms for my devices. In the past I just couldn't seem to get them to work. Well, I have decided to give it another go, and here was one of my first errors:

[CODE]
build/core/Makefile:34: *** Prebuilt apk found …

Critical Velocity is a fun little open source arcade style scrolling game that I made after finishing my Android developer class. It was my first released game using the libGDX engine, an open source graphics engine that is great for making games. Due to my inexperience, however, I didn't take …