ADB Android Driver

1. Plug the device into a USB port of your computer. Windows informs you that it cannot find the driver.

2. Using the Windows Device Manager, open the Details tab of the device properties.

3. Select the Hardware IDs property to view the hardware ID.

4. Open android_winusb.inf in a text editor. Find android_winusb.inf at the following location:

   C:\IBM\android\android-sdk_r05-windows\android-sdk-windows\usb_driver\android_winusb.inf

5. Note the listings in the file that apply to your architecture, either [Google.NTx86] or [Google.NTamd64]. The listings contain a descriptive comment and one or more lines with the hardware ID, as shown here:

   . . .  [Google.NTx86]  ; HTC Dream  %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_0BB4&PID_0C02&MI_01  . . . 

6. Copy and paste a comment and hardware listing. For the device driver you want to add, edit the listing as follows:

   1. For the comment, specify the name of the device.

   2. Replace the hardware ID with the hardware ID identified in Step 3 above.

   For example:

   . . .  [Google.NTx86]  ; NEW ANDROID DEVICE  %CompositeAdbInterface%     = USB_Install, NEW HARDWARE ID  . . .
   

example, Motorola Droid Bionic
; Motorola Droid Bionic
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B8&PID_42F7
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B8&PID_42F7&MI_01
;
; Motorola Droid Bionic2
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B&PID_42F7&REV_0216
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_22B&PID_42F7&REV_0216&MI_01

Dojo Build error [exec] release: ********** Not Copied: ../../dojo/

If you see this:

[exec] release: ********** Not Copied: ../../dojo/widgetname

make sure custom-dojo-build.xml has an entry to copy over the widget:

WebSphere Role Override

The other day I was having issues with my WebSphere security role definitions. It didn't matter what I did or how I updated the WebSphere role mappings, it wouldn't let my authorized user access some protected resources. I tried setting the special mapping to ALl_AUTHENTICATED, I mapped 3 different groups that I knew the user was in, and then I even added the user to the role. No luck. Turns out the problem was fixed by looking at my ibm-applicatoin-bnd.xml file. If that file even references the security-role it will fail and no overriding on the websphere admin console will work. Removing that reference and all my mapping worked perfectly.

Android trick to set a TextView bold

TextView setmebold = ....

setmebold.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);

that's it!

Android Setting TextColor

You can't do something like this:

inststatus.setTextColor(R.color.white);

instead do:

inststatus.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white);

Java Dynamically adding Android Views android:Layout_toRightOf

I found this post really useful today:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2305395/laying-out-views-in-relativelayout-programmatically

ex.

RelativeLayout layout = new RelativeLayout(this);
TextView tv1 = new TextView(this);
tv1.setText("A");
tv1.setId(23);

TextView tv2 = new TextView(this);
tv2.setText("B");
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF, tv1.getId());

layout.addView(tv1);       
layout.addView(tv2, lp);

******
you need to provide id's to your child views: tv1.setId(1); tv2.setId(2); Parent views do not automatically assign child views an Id, and the default value for an Id is NO_ID. Id's don't have to be unique in a view hiearchy - so 1, 2, 3, etc are all fine values to use - and you must use them for relative anchoring to work in RelativeLayout

Android screen capture

I found out how to use Eclipse to grab a screen capture of my android device. REALLY cool. No market app necessary.

1. Connect your phone to your computer
2. Open Eclipse
3. Click on the DDMS Perspective
4. Look at the Devices view
5. Click on your phone
6. Use the Menu Icon to Select > Screen Capture.
   
   
   
7. You'll see something like this:
   
   
   
   
8. Save your screen capture

Android custom buttons

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1521640/standard-android-button-with-a-different-color

Put something like the following code in a file named custom_button.xml and then set background="@drawable/custom_button" in your button view:

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>



  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">



   android:state_pressed="true" >

      

          

              android:startColor="@color/yellow1"

              android:endColor="@color/yellow2"

              android:angle="270" />

          

              android:width="3dp"

              color="@color/grey05" />

          

              android:radius="3dp" />

          

              android:left="10dp"

              android:top="10dp"

              android:right="10dp"

              android:bottom="10dp" />

      

  



   android:state_focused="true" >

      

          

              android:endColor="@color/orange4"

              android:startColor="@color/orange5"

              android:angle="270" />

          

              android:width="3dp"

              color="@color/grey05" />

          

              android:radius="3dp" />

          

              android:left="10dp"

              android:top="10dp"

              android:right="10dp"

              android:bottom="10dp" />

      

  



       

      

          

              android:endColor="@color/blue2"

              android:startColor="@color/blue25"

              android:angle="270" />

          

              android:width="3dp"

              color="@color/grey05" />

          

              android:radius="3dp" />

          

              android:left="10dp"

              android:top="10dp"

              android:right="10dp"

              android:bottom="10dp" />

      

  

How to Add a repeating background graphic on an Android Application

This took me a little to find the right resource to make this happen. So here it is:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/03/window-backgrounds-ui-speed.html

The author shows how to add a style for a repeating background towards the end. The style isn't picked up immediately using the Eclipse xml editor but once the application starts it's there.

Associating a Private Key using Android ConnectBot

https://isa.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/UNIXSYSPUB/Android+SSH+App+-+ConnectBot

Adding your OpenSSH Private Key

Connect your droid to your pc via USB. Copy over your ssh private key, and you can use ConnectBot's "Manage Pubkeys" tool to import it. I tried it with an OpenSSH private key, and it worked flawlessly. Importing a SSH.com key is possible, using PuTTY's keygen tool to convert the private key first.

Setting Up A Connection

Once you have your private key in ConnectBot, you can set up a connection. You can edit that connection once you've created it by long-tapping the host listing and choosing "Edit Host". When you edit the host, you can associate a private key with it, set the SSH Agent Forwarding to on, and change the font size (VITAL -- I find font size 16 to be very readable...size 10 not so much.)

Eclipse Debug with HTC Incredible Droid

I just got my new HTC Incredible phone yesterday and wanted to test some local android applications on it. The Incredible is so new that the standard usb device installer recommended by the android dev website isn't enough to get started. I found this blog post from someone who figured it out and sure enough, my incredible was recognized after following his steps.

http://www.flexjunk.com/2010/05/01/installing-htc-incredible-android-sd-drivers/

Android - Writing to the log file

Very simple.

Add a log such as this:

Log.i("Main","Starting the IBM Cloudroid application");

This first string is the "tag" you want to give your log message. And the second string is your message.

To view the log, start you application, in Eclipse is switch to the DDMS perspective

to see the LogCat view:

Android - Opening a new "window" activity

I'm playing around with some android development for work and found this post helpful as a newbee.

http://learnandroid.blogspot.com/2008/01/opening-new-screen-in-android.html

Basically all you have to do is:

1. Add the following to your AndroidManifest.xml file:

2. Create the NewActivity class

3. On the button press or whenever you want to see the new activity launched call something like this:

Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this, NewActivity.class);

startActivity(i);

That's it!!

Javascript Operating System version check

A number of ways to do it. This article mentions a few of them:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/navigator.shtml

Example,

to check for Linux you could do something like this:

var isLinux = (navigator.platform.indexOf("Linux")!=-1);

CSS Wrap a long word to fit container

Today I had to do some searching to find a solution for an internationalization problem. I had a div with a fixed width of 140px and wanted to ensure the text fit inside this div and automatically wrapped. In order to do that I had to find the right css. At first I thought using white-space: pre-wrap would work. However, the problem with that is it only wraps between spaces. So:

this is a
long area
with a
forced
wrap

would look okay. But the following would not wrap and would overflow into the other divs:

thisisalongareawithaforcedwrap

In order to fix that (I was doing it for internationalization purposes) I used this:

word-wrap: break-word;Worked like a charm!!

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 9-Aug 15, 2009

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Prezi.com An Alternative to Powerpoint

Check it out... unbelievable sweet!

http://prezi.com

Jing Screen Capture

One of my University of Texas MSTC fellow students seems to know about a ton of really cool websites. I thought I knew some of the latest but apparently I know nothing. ;)

This one is amazing:
http://www.jingproject.com/download/pc/

It's a free screen capture tool that can also capture video.

TinyMCE java spellchecker

I was looking everywhere to find a spellchecker that was java for TinyMCE.... I figured it was needed since I had a Java web app running on tomcat. But! Then I found an article asking why convert.... Apache allows both java and php on the same site. In order to allow my hosting provider to recognize the php pages within my j2ee app I added the following lines:

SetEnvIf Request_URI \.php no-jk
SetEnvIf Request_URI \.cgi no-jk

to my web settings. Then it worked like a charm! So... I know this isn't a solution for those of you looking for a java spellchecker... but it was a solution that worked for me.

TinyMCE relative path IMG problem

I've been using TinyMCE as a WYSIWYG editor on my website www.puppages.com. I absolutely LOVE it. There was one issue that was a little frustrating. When someone tried to link back to another page on the site (or an image/document on the site), the TinyMCE code would convert the absolute path into a relative path and the relative path would not work. I was able to fix this by doign some javascript editing.

Here's the solution:

1. Open the tiny_mce.js file.
2. Find all references to the function: toRelative(u)
3. replace with return u
4. save