I’m setting up .NET 4.0 support on our CI server. I’ve installed .NET 4.0, and the .NET tools from the Windows 7.1 SDK. On .NET 2.0 and 3.5, that just worked. With .NET 4, when I run the “Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt” from the Start menu, it complains about The x86 compilers are not … Read more
I am trying to explain to a non-developer the difference between an API an SDK. I need to explain why a commercial fingerprint software vendor will likely not provide an SDK, although they may certainly have used one. Both device vendors and software vendors can and should expose a well-defined API. This API allows other … Read more
Not sure what I’m doing wrong here. I installed the Android SDK Manager, and am now trying to install a platform like the Android Dev website suggests. Once I clicked install I got an error stating that the Manager could not create a temp folder within the Android directory. So I created it. Now I’m … Read more
There are a lot of system images piling up on my disk in the android sdk folder. i hardly use the emulator. May be once in 6 months. Most of my development is directly on device. What i wanted to check was, will removing the system images (at least for the old APIS i.e. < … Read more
Lately Google and Intel have published a new way to run the emulator, which should work much better than the previous version (which has emulated ARM CPU). Here are some links about it: this and this. However, after installing the new components and creating a new emulator configuration as instructed, I get an error and … Read more
Due to recent Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap policy update (end of $free release updates from Oracle after March 2019 in particular), I’ve been searching for alternatives to Oracle Java. I’ve found that OpenJDK is an open-source alternative. And I’ve found AdoptOpenJDK, now known as Adoptium, which is a prebuilt binary. It puzzles. What is … Read more
I want to setup the Android dev environment from command line, and encounter the following issue: wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r22.0.5-linux.tgz after extract the file, run tools/android update sdk –no-ui However, it is too slow on running Fetching https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml The result is that nothing in folder build-tools, and I want is aapt and apkbuilder, since I want to … Read more
I know this is a very rudimentary question, but to my surprise, I could not find any document about Android SDK Build-tools. Besides Android SDK Tools and Android SDK Platform-tools, there are a bunch of Android SDK Build-tools as shown in the appended screenshot. Could anyone point to a source explaining all of them and … Read more
I have quite a few controls scattered throughout many table cells in my table, and I was wondering if there’s an easier way to dismiss the keyboard without having to loop through all my controls and resigning them all as the first responder. I guess the question is.. How would I get the current first … Read more
I want to change the minimum SDK version in Android Studio from API 12 to API 14. I have tried changing it in the manifest file, i.e., <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=”14″ android:targetSdkVersion=”18″ /> and rebuilding the project, but I still get the Android Studio IDE throwing up some errors. I presume I have to set the min … Read more
