Properly testing app upgrades on Windows Phone is not as straightforward as it could be. When you deploy a XAP from the IDE or with the XapDeploy tool the build system will evaluate whether an incremental update is possible or if a full redeploy is required. A full redeploy will remove all of the app’s […]
I needed to launch one of my Android emulators from the terminal recently and I was surprised to see how slow it was, especially seeing as I had enabled host GPU acceleration and that the emulator an x86 one with HAXM enabled. I had never experienced any such issues when starting the same emulator from […]
I was setting up a Gradle-based Android project on Jenkins today. I had read in a few places that Gradle would be downloaded somehow after installing the corresponding plugin but the build was failing within seconds of starting. My SDK was fully up to date and I had already set ANDROID_HOME but the build was […]
I was greeted with this error today when I tried to run some tests on a Windows Phone project. To cut a long story short my test project’s configuration had somehow lost its Startup object, as you can see in this screenshot. The remedy was simply to change the startup object to the relevant Xap. […]
I battled with this issue this evening for a couple of hours. I found myself having to go to extraordinary lengths for something that I thought should have “just worked”. I think an image best illustrates the issue (and not the ridiculous title of the article!) As you can see the dark text on a […]
This is an interesting one. I’m doing some Windows Phone development at the moment and I usually run a debugging proxy on my local machine on port 8888. After a routine reboot my proxy wouldn’t start up because port 8888 was already in use. I did a “netstat -b -a” to find out what process […]
Just a quick one. You probably already know that you can automatically convert URLs in a TextView into clickable links like this: mTextView.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS); I recently learned that this will only work where you can call setAutoLinkMask() before setting text in the TextView. The simple solution is to set the text after calling setAutoLinkMask(), but if […]
