Geek T-Shirt Collection #21 – Google

I got this during my “Google fanboy period”. Now I’m a little more critical. I’m now going through an “Android fanboy period”. There’s a funny story of this shirt. The first day I moved to Miami I was running an errand in downtown and some lady yelled at me from the other side of the […]

[SOLVED] Eclipse can’t see my Android Device on Ubuntu

Are you seeing this on eclipse when you plug your Android device to your Ubuntu box? Serial Number: ?????????? AVD Name: N/A Target: unknown State: ?? Here’s the solution: 1. Create a script to fix this next time it happens, let’s call it “android_device_reset” and save it on a folder contained on your $PATH environment […]

How many lines of code does it take to create the Android OS?

This is a report done on all the projects that make up for the android project, my copy of it is synced as of May 23rd 2010, 6pm

Testing Flash Video Playback on the Nokia N900 (Maemo)

Which phone records video better? N900 or Nexus One

N900 Nexus One

Who Boots Faster? N900 or Nexus One

Nokia N900 boots Maemo faster than the Nexus One boots Android 2.1. Let’s see what the story will be with Android 2.2 (Froyo)

Nokia N900 vs Nexus One vs Droid: HD Video Playback comparison

Grabbed the demo video that comes with the N900 to delight you and put it on the 3 phones. The screen on the Nexus One is the most impressive. The Droid has a 1/2 sec. lag when you try to jump to another part of the video. If you don’t care about the screen being […]

Droid vs Nexus 1: Who can calculate MD5 faster?

Nexus 1 indeed. 17 files get their MD5 calculated on the Droid and 17 files get their MD5 hash calculated on the Nexus 1 Nexus 1 pwns. Here’s the code in case you’re curious. [java] public void onClick(View v) { _logTextView.setText("MD5 Benchmark on " + Build.DEVICE + "nn"); if (GlobalVariables.APP_CONTEXT == null) GlobalVariables.APP_CONTEXT = getApplicationContext(); […]

Think you’re in a big project?

Recently I became curious on how many lines of code a huge open source project I contribute to has on what languages. I found a tool called “cloc” on sourceforge, check out the results and I dare you to think again if you think you’re in a big project.

[SCREENCAST] How to do Unit Testing on Android with Eclipse

I was going to make a tutorial, but then I figured that making a video would be a much better way to show this. As for the code that you could grab from a tutorial, there’s a link at the end of the post with all the code shown in the video demo. The video […]