gradle/groovy: A simple way to check if a gradle task name has been invoked (e.g. “assembleRelease” for Android developers)

If you google for this question, you’ll find a bunch of crap answers about creating tasks and checking the task graph, bullshit. All you need to do is check if a parameter has been passed to gradle. Keep it simple and stupid: [pastacode lang=”java” manual=”boolean%20isAssembleRelease%20%3D%20gradle.startParameter.taskNames.contains(%22assembleRelease%22)” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”/] (If you’re working with an android project, […]

[ANDROID] How to set a custom title View on a DialogPreference extending class.

So you have a FooDialogPreference class which extends DialogPreference, and one of the things you’d like to do to it, is to change the Dialog’s title. DialogPreference happens to be a bit of a bitch, you can’t just call getDialog() and start playing with its features before it is shown because the Dialog object is […]

OnePlus One unboxing

Charger and phone come in separate boxes. Charger does not come with a cable. The phone does. I guess it must be a statement for modularity and perhaps you get to buy only the accesories you need, if you need just a cable, you just buy the cable. It’s a pretty power adapter, but not […]

New FrostWire for Android 1.0.8 out

A new FrostWire for Android is out on Google Play. In this release we improved our search algorithm to include relevant search results that were being hidden in previous versions. We’ve also made use of Square’s Picasso Image loading/caching library for displaying all the images on the user interface, resulting in less crashes due to […]

New FrostWire for Android 1.0.6 – Now with access to Archive.org’s 7.3MM files

Download the APK or get it at Google Play A new FrostWire for Android is here, this is a major update that you should not skip, specially if you’ve had issues in the past. The biggest changes are: Integration with Archive.org Archive.org indexes free files from all over the internet, there’s a huge amount of […]

My First Raspberry PI Project: DIY ARM Video Game Console.

I got everything on amazon, didn’t pay for shipping (Prime member): So far I bought: – Raspberry PI ($48) – Raspberry PI case ($14) – Power adapter ($2.25) – SNES-like Controller with USB jack ($10.75) – SanDisk SDHC 16GB class 6 (30mb/s) ($15) I first intend to install Ubuntu ARM along with several video game […]

Archive.org as a new search engine in FrostWire puts millions of free legal files in your hands.

We’re currently polishing our next release of FrostWire for Android 1.0.6. Our last release was back in November 2012, since then we’ve received crash reports and lots of complaints that have helped us make the next FrostWire for Android much more robust and compatible for the +2,600 different supported Android devices that run FrostWire on […]

jar dependencies if you plan to use the cling UPnP library in your android project

This took me quite a while and lots of runtime errors, here are the minimum jars I needed to add to my project since now cling when used on android needs jetty, and damn jetty is broken into a thousand little jars for maximum modularity. These are the one jars that I needed to not […]

How to enable adb logcat on Android 4 (debugging output)

So you got a new Nexus or another Android running Android +4.2 and there’s no “Applications” menu entry in the settings menu. No worries. Go to the “About phone” entry at the bottom of settings, then scroll all the way down to the “Build number” menu entry. Tap on it SEVEN times. (You’ll see funny […]

Android: Changing TextView alpha transparency across different target SDKs

Sometimes you may need to make a TextView (label) look a little transparent to make emphasis on other parts of your UI. The .setAlpha() function on TextView is not supported after later in the SDK. Here’s a static workaround you can place on some sort of UIUtils class you may have in your project. [java] […]