Every now and then I do something that I shouldn't. Okay, probably more often than that. Either way, I really shouldn't open up a file explorer as root, and I REALLY shouldn't "delete" stuff while in an open file explorer as root. The reason that you shouldn't do that is …

While testing out The Quiet Learner's game, Dr. Theobold, a text based adventure game written in picolisp, I ran into several issues. As discussed previously, I added these issues to the bug tracker on Savannah. Come to find out, the distributed packages for Ubuntu are using version 15.xxx …

Creating open source apps for Android led me to become intimately familiar with GitHub and the GitHub issue tracker system. However, today I had the opportunity to try out Savannah's bug tracking system.

I was testing out a great text adventure game by The Quiet Learner called Dr. Theobold. It's …

MechDome, the new way to convert your Android application into an iOS app. While still somewhat in development, MechDome has been making great strides in the field of app converters. The best part is that MechDome doesn't use your app source code, it uses your completed Android apk file to …

While finishing my Android app developer course, I ran into this error during game development:

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--------- beginning of crash
06-09 13:01:19.410 30345-30366/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 758
Process: com.alaskalinuxuser.criticalvelocity, PID: 30345
com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: Error loading audio file: data/spblk.mp3
Note …

After synching my source with AOKP for Nougat 7.1.2, I ran into this error when trying to build for the JFLTETMO:

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target thumb C: lights.MSM8960 \<= hardware/samsung/liblights/lights.c
hardware/samsung/liblights/lights.c:215:40: error: use of undeclared identifier 'LED_ADJUSTMENT_R'
int red = ((color …

In my last post, I told the epic adventure of figuring out how to get into recovery mode so I could fix my unbooting phone. I had performed a backup of SlimRoms before trying to flash OmniRom, and since I was back into TWRP, I restored my backup. Figuring all …

This is something that should be easy. Really easy. However, it took me a while to find this on the web, and since it did, I'm posting it here too. On XDA, there is a thread about this, intermingled with numerous other threads that say different or sometimes erroneous information …

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Praise God! My SlimRoms Nougat ROM for the LG G4 H811 is finally working!

It's always fun to try building for a new device, but this one was particularly interesting, as it was my first non-Samsung build! Not to …

After building SlimRoms Nougat for the H811 (LG G4 T-Mobile), I ran into an odd artifact: when you enabled and opened the developer settings, it would be blank, or crash. I had absolutely no idea why that would be, nor where to begin looking into a fix.

So, I hopped …