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 …

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 …