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Literally Elvis posted:I am new-ish to programming, and you were totally right. By using Java's debugger, do you mean jdb or things like breakpoints in Android Studio? I meant the IDE's debugger, such as the one in Android Studio, yes. GUIs shouldn't be taboo if they help you use powerful tools better (but if you are uncommon and text is your thing, and you're more productive that way, all power to you). As for whether your use of Log.d(), sure - use whatever tool you can to track down problems. If logging is confusing you on a bug, then try a different approach. Debugging is hard to get good at, but the first step is recognizing where it can help, and you've already spotted a good example. Another thing that might help is using a good color scheme that is not only easy on your eyes (i.e. a dark gray or black background instead of white), but which has good contrast in its colors, so you can figure out that you're setting a local variable instead of an instance variable by inspection by looking at the color of the variable. Really, any additional signal you can add to finding problems that doesn't increase the noise by too much is probably worth considering. For example, religiously autoformatting your source code so that code lines up consistently might help, too, or naming variables consistently (i.e. always declare a FooBarController as FooBarController fooBarController unless you have reason not to) helps you spend your brain worrying about problems that actually matter.
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Newf posted:... the character building kind of pain? Newf posted:Yeah, I'm pretty competent in Java and .Net/C#. Haven't touched Objective C at all, but hell, it's just another modern C style language? Newf posted:Uh, ($120 in licenses, $600 for a Mac mini, $5000 for me) x 3 = $17160. That seems utterly insane to me, and I'll probably pitch something closer to 5k? That would keep me from starving to death!
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Saw a friend post this: https (friend of friend is author) http://github.com/facebook/proguard Apparently, it's 2.5x faster than upstream proguard, or so they claim.
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scanlonman posted:Is there a guide for how to architect an Android application? I've seen people have one activity that controls many fragments, one activity for each fragment, and probably variations of both. What is the "right" behavior? How do fragments communicate with each other? For fragment communication, the way that is "anointed" is to pass interfaces around between fragments. Problem with that is that you've adopted the overhead of maintaining an interface from the outset, possibly before you even know what you're building. So I used to use (it's been a loooong time since I did Android) a weak reference to the owning activity instead, and call methods as necessary. Other tips - * Don't stack fragments if fragment state is important. Back-stack state restoration is unreliable (did they ever fix this?) * When creating and launching a new activity, it's pretty convenient to stick the info you used to launch the activity in the intent. It's immutable and if your activity's state gets reset, it still has access to the intent used to make it and can reconstruct its original state pretty easily. * If you're dealing with video views inside fragments, HERE BE DRAGONS. Video views have a lifecycle of their own. Dealing with activity and fragment lifecycles on top of that is scary.
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Safe and Secure! posted:So what's the state of android development tools? Is everything still the biggest pain in the rear end possible? I want to play around with android but I dread spending a day to get a hello world app running on my phone because I have to download a special version of eclipse and then make sure I've got a billion different plugins installed and configured properly. I say this despite liking and preferring Eclipse over IntelliJ - just use Android Studio.
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Yesssss...let the hate flow through you. I went through nearly the same thing a couple of years ago, though possibly worse since Android 7-9 was a total shitshow and video playback was the wild west on any Android version less than 4.0, and still woefully inconsistent and terrible on higher versions. Thanks for the article.
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speng31b posted:My favorites are crash reports from embedded html5 video trying to play in a webview.
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Subjunctive posted:Hi all! Not sure how relevant it is, but I just remembered one particularly hilarious Android exploit for devices using Samsung's Exynos chipset: /dev/exynos-mem was readable and world-writable which referenced – you guessed it – device memory. In case you don't already have it in your list of attacks, here's more info on that vulnerability: http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/02/re-visiting-exynos-memory-mapping-bug.html
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My understanding jives with yours that RSA isn't intended to be used as a block cipher and ECB sucks. I haven't used them together, although my slightly-informed guess would also be that it doesn't matter because ECB is ignored. Given that Android uses a cut-down BouncyCastle for its crypto (link), I'd say that if you've looked at BouncyCastle and found that it ignored the operation mode, chances are very good you'll see the same behavior on the standard Android platform
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Subjunctive posted:Why is that? I came across something else that said that recently, but didn't say what problem it avoided. I'm just getting back into Android development, so these sorts of gathered lore are interesting to me. If you categorize by activities, exploring cross-package dependencies as a heuristic to grok code one major piece of functionality at a time suddenly becomes a lot less consistently useful or predictable.
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speng31b posted:If you're talking about writing your own BLE utility, I'd suggest you run fast in the opposite direction. I can go into more detail if you want, but for now I'll just say Android BLE support is -bad-. I'll do the whole rant if anyone's interested. Please do.
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*Flashes back to Android 2.x VideoView pain* Good stuff. By which I mean, that totally sucks, and sounds like typical Android. Sorry man.
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http://verybadalloc.com/android/2015/12/19/special-place-for-samsung-in-android-hell/ Ah, Samsung. Such a familiar feeling of disappointment.
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Volmarias posted:You are. I'm suggesting publishing ( I preferred app-scoped or some-notion-of-session-scoped properties on a class, and calling that a Manager, Coordinator, or Controller (i.e. "FooManager", "FooCoordinator", or "FooController"), or maybe Listener or Announcer, depending on the specific thing it's doing. The broadcast intents method seems not unreasonable.
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"publishing"
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https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/18/facebook-expands-its-open-source-portfolio-with-new-ui-framework-for-android/ Essentially ComponentKit for Android, and ComponentKit is essentially React* for iOS. * The pattern – React is both a pattern and an implementation, but this fact gets often overlooked because React is so strongly associated with React.js.
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