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Easier Android layouts with DroidDraw

Submitted by greg on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 01:22
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In picking up Android development, one thing I miss from the iPhone camp is Interface Builder.  Coding up Android's XML files to handle all the UI screens is tedious even for one display type.  Add on the different orientations, dimensions, and the rest makes it very un-fun. 

Dalvik compilation problems with Android / Eclipse

Submitted by greg on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 23:54
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Started working on an Android version of an existing security tool.  After setting up the basic screens, I started importing some of the existing Java code.  I expected some issues, of course, but I ran into a maddening one.  Eclipse started complaining of this:

  1. [2010-01-14 22:41:43 - MyApp]
  2. trouble writing output: null
  3. [2010-01-14 22:41:43 - MyApp]Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 2

Trying to Run or Debug would bomb with messages like:

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