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Frameworks & Tools
Deploying the android libraries into your maven repository
0303 days
Maven is a fantastic build tool, and a great addition to anyone developing on the android platform, however one of the first hurdles that people often stumble upon, is when their project involves one of the SDK libraries, such as Google Maps.
You’ll most likely see something like this when you attempt to first compile the project :
Recursively deleting .svn directories
0329 days
Messing around with your subversion directories and fed up of the .svn hidden folders laying around? If you try and checkin some directories that contain a .svn folder from some other repository, you’re going to have a whole world of pain trying to fix it (speaking from first hand experience here)
The easiest way to clear up rogue .svn directories is to run this command (on linux or mac). It will recursively find all directories named .svn, and pass them in for removal.
Deploying artefacts into your CloudBees maven repositories.
1335 days
If you’re like me, and have a fair few hobby projects on the go at any one time, you’re may want to take advantage of some of the free cloud services that are available out there. I’m particulary fond of the Maven repositories that CloudBees offer, as it gives you a safe and easy way to deploy your artefacts, whether they’re 3rd party libraries, snapshots, or even releases of your own software.
Head over to CloudBees.com and register an account, its free.
Tesseract OCR on Android is easier if you Maven-ise it, works on Windows too…
3380 days
I’ve spent the past few months working on an android application that involves an element of OCR capability, its been quite a painful journey so this is my attempt to reflect on these experiences and hopefully help others who follow in my path.
From Wikipedia : In geometry, the tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron or cubic prism, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube.
Automating android application signing and zipaligning with maven
0642 days
This is something that has had me tearing my hair out for a few days now, I was pretty much border-line braveheart-ing my screen….
I’ve recently been on a little drive to try to maven-ize my projects. All had been going well until I needed to sign and zipalign my APKs. This post will help you conquer that barrier with the use of some maven plugins.
When using ant, I was able to simply enter keystore details into build.properties and just call “ant release”. Unfortunately that approach doesn’t carry across to maven, and you have to provide some more configuration.
Getting started with Git, and GitHub, the noobs guide
0843 days
by James Elsey
in Git
I’ve always been a Subversion man myself, but today I took Vaders’ advice and joined the darkside. As part of a tutorial I wrote on here I wanted to host some code on Github for people to download, so I had to learn some basic Git usage, heres how to get started.
Android; Continuous integration, all made lovely with Maven
2940 days
Lets face it, the eclipse ADT plugin is great for getting an android application up and running quickly, but if you want an easier way to get libraries, and a continuous intergration environment for robust automated testing and building, then maven is the way to go.
IntelliJ have recently released the Early Access Program to their version X of IDEA, this comes with Android support in the community edition, meaning we’re no longer bound to using eclipse for Android development!
Modify your Java web application to run on Google App Engine
01305 days
So, you have a Java web application that you would like to host somewhere for free, no worries, Google to the rescue. What is Google App Engine? Well to quote from their site…
Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it’s ready to serve your users.
Setting up a basic Stripes framework
31318 days
After being introduced to Struts1, Struts2 and SpringMVC at a very early stage in my development career, I was very happy to work on a project with Stripes. Stripes can do nearly everything I was doing with other action based frameworks, but is much simpler to use but is also a very versatile framework.
I’ve decided to put together this tutorial on how to setup a basic Stripes project with one page and one action, this will give you an idea of how the framework fits together, you can then expand on it as you wish.
