Android woes

I’ve been working on the google android platform for quite some time and to say the least, it has at least humbled me to a great extent. Ok, managing an application (open source but working closed) from the basic (i.e the whole development process) isn’t really fun… And yeah, I’ve faced the limits to my knowledge many times and often it’s not about striving through but making sound decisions that get things done. I am finally realizing that it’s not really about writing quick, short and elegant codes like what I’d do for a class but planning in detail and executing through.

I started out with version m3… or even before.. at least I was eager enough to download the first one and give it a go. The most work that has gone into was version m5. However, a lot of the hacks that I did for my project went to waste as I started upgrading to the newest version.

Now, at least since google finally released the codes for everyone to see, it’s become a little easier and an even more humbling experience for me in terms of understanding how much I really need to know/learn in programming with Java in general.

The site: source.android.com

This has by far been the easiest compile I’ve ever done in my life for a project this complex. Ode to the google people for just that if nothing else. What I find really impressive is the fact that they redid libc and many other packages, adding native interfaces for programmers to work on.

The packages, after a little search were in <source>/packages/applications folder. I finally finished replacing my old camera activity in my application with the one from google. I’ll need to do the same for the maps application and I’m thinking of looking if they have their own xmlrpc implementation this time around because the old one that I modified from J2ME package kxmlrpc  doesn’t seem to be working too nicely anymore.

I still can’t release all my codes but here’s the link to the stuff that I’ve been working on:

http://summer.hfoss.org/POSIT

However, I’ve done development on my posit-server  in the open from the start

http://code.google.com/p/positserver/

I wrote a bunch of applications for using when I was developing for it that have mostly been open sourced.