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Quick android tips

juggernaut — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:07:00 +0000

To hide window title in onCreate() of activity do the

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

To hide system statusbar (the thing with battery status) do the following in the onCreate() method:

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

This should be made before setting any content.

Push existing git repo to svn.

juggernaut — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:44:59 +0000

I'm no big fan of svn, but sometimes I just have to use it. For those like me here is the guide on how to import existing git repo into svn. It helped me a lot.

How to make splashscreen for iphone app?

juggernaut — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:52:55 +0000

Most of developers should already know this, but for ones like me here is the way: you put Default.png into your project and it will be automatically displayed by os while the rest of your app is loading.

java 1.5 in Snow Leopard

juggernaut — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:42:50 +0000

Recently I've installed Snow Leopard as my main system and found out that there is no JDK 1.5 in the system - only 1.6.

Sadly, one of my project needed to be build with JDK 1.5 because I deploy it in jetty container which is running in 1.5 jvm. Happily, I was able to transfer JDK 1.5 from my other notebook with Leopard, so now I have both 1.5 and 1.6 versions of java in Snow Leopard.

Below goes instructions how to do it:

user@leopard% cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions
user@leopard% zip -9ry ~/java.zip 1.5.0

...

user@snow-leopard% sudo -s
root@snow-leopard# cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions
root@snow-leopard# scp user@leopard:~/java.zip .
root@snow-leopard# rm -f 1.5*
root@snow-leopard# unzip java.zip
root@snow-leopard# ln -s 1.5.0 1.5

Now, system utility called "Java Preferences" can be used to manage java version. However, it failed to set correct JDK for my maven from macports, so I had to

root@snow-leopard# rm -f CurrentJDK && ln -s 1.5.0 CurrentJDK

after doing so everything went smoothly

Snow Leopard and MacPorts

juggernaut — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:19:50 +0000

MacPorts work fine in Snow Leopard, you just need to build them from source code. It is pretty easy.

org-mode FTW!

juggernaut — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:21:20 +0000

Here I've found interesting org-mode manual/tutorial. Worth reading.