Use Manual Settings for Testing your Android App
Here’s a quick tip for an issue I see asked all the time.
If you’re developing an android application and want to try it on your phone but you’ve been running it in an emulator (or vice versa) it’s a head-scratcher on how to get the app to be sent to your phone instead of the emulator you have running.
When you click the run button eclipse automatically figures out which emulator or device to run your app on. If you’ve got a few running emulators and/or devices plugged in, it just picks one. Probably the first. You want eclipse to ask you instead of guessing.
- Click the down arrow next to the run button. Then click on “Run Configurations…”
- Click on the Target tab.
- Click Manual.
- Finally, hit Apply then Close to save your changes.
Once you’ve done that eclipse will ask you which device you want to run your app on when you hit the run button. Sure, it adds another click to the process, but it allows you to have multiple emulators up or devices plugged in without confusion.
06.15.10Weigh In
I’m working on a weight-tracking app for android.
You can play with what I have so far by downloading the apk file here and installing it:
Scan with your phone's barcode scanner
So far you just enter how much you weigh. It keeps track of when you weigh yourself and computes a running average. This way you can weigh yourself as often (or not often) as you like and it will produce a nice stable representation of your weight without the daily ups and downs. More features to come.
03.22.10qqrr.it POC
I cobbled together a POC for my QR-code generating site.
To use it, make an image url like so:
http://qqrr.it/<whatever you want goes here>
e.g.
http://qqrr.it/http://bellybuttonporn.com
Splat!
TODO:
- Talk about security. What sort of escaping do I need to do? How likely is this to be abused?
- an actual index for the site. It’ll have some cute examples and google ads. Lots of google ads.
- make it so you don’t have to use the /q/ in the url.
- add other features as 1-letter subdirectories, e.g. /b/ would make a “big” splat.
- Make the sizing smart. e.g. guess based on the length of the supplied string how big to make the splat.
Update March 22nd: Fixed a couple things. Added the home page. Try it out: http://qqrr.it/
03.15.10Back To Ames
Went up to Ames for the weekend. It was pretty good despite some bad news.
Though I make a habit of getting back up there to play games and hang out with friends, it’s been a few weeks since I’d been. That, and I think the flutterings of spring, made it feel somehow more vibrant than normal. Oh, and I’m moving back up there too.
Aside: It’s interesting how people use words like up and down to describe travel on a map. It’s not up, it’s north. But we all say it and we all understand what it means.
So as most of you know I’ve had some issues with my current roommates in Des Moines. For the few of you who don’t I’m sorry; I’ll have to fill the bloud (that’s a new word for blog crowd. Okay, whatever, I tried) in later once the move is complete. I packed up a carload and brought it with me. In this first installment went my gaming supplies (natch) and some excess kitchen stuff that I never really unpacked.
I met Pete, Rezza, and Steve at Tas’s/my former/future place. Tas wasn’t there because of the bad news: The night prior he had lost his grandmother. They were close. He’ll be out of town for a while and I wish him well. I lost my maternal grandmother when I was a teenager. We were also close, and it was tough to deal with.
After dinner the four of us played Dungeon Lords. I think the consensus is that we all like the game but need more practice. We’ve given it a provisional nickname of “I am such a retard” due to several exclamations during play.
Scan me with your Android Phone
We finished the night off with three games of Dominion. Though I only won one of them, it was the finale and a landslide, so I felt a bit redeemed. Man Dominion is all kinds of fun. Especially when it’s easy to come up with kingdom card layouts.
I’d been dying to try out Dominion Shuffle, an Android app to generate kingdom card layouts. It did not disappoint. Point your Android Phone to the sneeze on the right to try the App out yourself.
Sunday I lunched with Pete at Thai Kitchen then played D&D with Pete, Jed, Chris, and Steve. I’ll spare you the gory details for now but we had a few hours of fun before I had to go.
Back to Des Moines, for a little while.
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