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:
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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:
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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 …
If you like open source applications, and use GPS on your phone, you probably have heard of SatStat. It is a really great open source option for monitoring your location with GPS, as well as several other nifty perks. The only downside I could see to this application, is that …
Fortunately, it did not take long to figure this out, but as a beginning java programmer using libGDX, I couldn't quite figure out the difference between isTouched and justTouched right off the bat. A Google search actually told me the answer, but at the time I did not understand what …
There are actually many ways that one can "touch" an object in libGDX. You can create scenes with stages and characters and actors, for one. You could do sprite comparisons as another. I decided to go a simple route with intersections.
The goal is to be able to detect that …