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Set up an Eclipse-free environment for Android application development

2010-06-23 4:37 pm by Konrad Förstner No Comments
If you want to start to develop applications for Android you need to install the Android SDK. The installation instructions advise you to install Eclipse and to add the Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin. Not everybody is a fan of this dinosaur-like IDE and luckily it is not really needed. The plugin is just a wrapper …

Create a launch short cut for an Android Scripting Environment script

2010-06-18 4:28 pm by Konrad Förstner No Comments
Once you have written a useful ASE script you might want to have an icon on your home screen to launch the script instead of opening ASE first and selecting the script there. For this you can add a shortcut to your home screen. Go to your home screen, click the menu button and select "Add …

First steps with the Android Scripting Environment

2010-06-18 12:28 pm by Konrad Förstner No Comments
The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) offers an easy way to generate (small) programs for Android phones. The quickest way to install ASE is via the barcode reader application and the bar code given on the ASE homepage that links to the installation package. After the installation of ASE you need to add an interpreter for the …

Speed up Ruby's gem installation

2010-06-09 1:46 pm by Konrad Förstner No Comments
You can skip the time and space consuming installations of the documentation and of the interactive reference that belong to Ruby gems. If you are sure that you don't need these documents you can install a gem like this: $ gem install <NAME_OF_THE_GEM> --no-ri --no-rdoc To make this the default behavior for gem installations add this …

Using the Ruby Version Manager (RVM)

2010-06-07 3:38 pm by Konrad Förstner No Comments
Sometime you have to work with different versions of ruby (or jruby). This can be quite a pain but there is a remedy - the Ruby Version Manager (RVM). It helps you to handle many different ruby installations and their gems by installing them in a folder called .rvm in you home directory. To install run … 
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