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Well, I guess this can apply to a lot of projects out there, but I’ve spent the past 2.5 hours trying to get a simple email checking program working in Ubuntu 12.04. I originally wrote it in python but wanted to try redoing it in C for practice/fun, but good gravy, Canonical really needs to work on their documentation for all their distro-specific APIs. All my python script does is hook into the messaging menu and displays how many unread emails you have, and it runs every 15min. using a simple GTK backend (timeout_add() to be precise).
I’ve basically been wired for the past week, as I’ve jumped head-first into writing my second Android app (a comic viewer). Seeing as how I’m targeting android 3.0+ but want to support back to 2.2, I’ve had a lot of trouble trying to wrap my brain around the new development paradigm: fragments. Needless to say, I’m still not sure if I like them or not.
Ok, ok, so you can say that about pretty much anything, but having spent the last 2-3 months not doing any android development, it’s hard finally coming back to it. I’m working on my first android 3.0 app (a comic book reader), and I’ve just spent the better part of the evening wrapping my head around the use of fragments.
Been stuck on this one problem for the past two days, and after a lot of frustration, I’ve finally come to a conclusion (a crappy one).
I’ve been putting a lot of hours into this first Android program lately, and it seems like just when I finally start to get it, I learn that I was doing it the wrong way. 😐
Back when I bought my Galaxy Tab in Jan. I thought to myself, “Cool! Now I can write my own programs for it!” After a half-hearted attempt at the Hello World app, I put everything on hold for a couple of months. Then, starting about two months ago, I started writing my first app.
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