Here’s a crazy idea I had yesterday: poor mans dependency management for your Android ant (and Eclipse) builds. I could of course use maven, but I don’t. TL;DR; I think it’s too much hassle for my Android projects. I pull in library projects from source using mercurials’ subrepository feature and check the libs folder in to source control. Anyway, I do like the dependency management part of a maven build, although I also might have …
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Correct Intent to compose an email on Android
Starting a compose window to write an email in your favorite email client on Android is easy. It amazes me however that when you search for it on stackoverflow most first hitters are suggesting to use an intent with the mime type set to text/plain (or worse) See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6450097/how-to-send-email-by-clicking-text-view-links/6450131#6450131, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7551600/how-can-i-send-an-email-through-my-exchange-activesync-mail-account or here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10546252/unable-to-send-email-from-android-application-on-real-device for example.Being an intent, that code expresses that you like to perform a SEND action on ANYTHING that can handle text/plain or whatever mime …
A little tool for handling nine patch files, called 9tool
Here’s a little tool I wrote for handling 9patch images called 9tool. If you work with (a lot) of nine patch files in Android, you might find it handy too. My workflow currently is something like this: Get the xhdpi asset and make it a nine patch using draw9patch Get the other states for the asset and do a 9tool copy on it to copy the nine patch area to those assets, then load those …