Of snow and errors

The snow kind of messed up the plan for today so ended up working on my android app.

Released an update to Droid 2 CAD to deal with an error report that came back from marketplace and to make the app more user friendly.

If GPS is disabled the user is now prompted to turn it on as well it some checks are now carried out to make sure required data exists before other functions will run.

I used the code posted on stackoverflow.com to create a dialogue box if the GPS is disabled. The dialog code is posted here

RF Tools VSWR+ / GPS2CAD

A few weeks ago I released my first Application onto the Android Marketplace. I thought that i would get a few downloads but not many, the application I published is a very basic calculator useful only to RF aerials engineers. But at time of writing I have had 98 downloads with around 50% of those still installed and active.
This does make me want to carry on writing apps and releasing them. I have a few tweaks to make then i plan to release my GPS2CAD app and see if anyone can make use of it. it is based on the google notepad tutorial code but allows you to take points and then then export them as a dxf file for use with CAD software. I have posted about it before, i when i wrote it i was excited about using the GPS to create CAD data but over estimated the accuracy of the GPS in the phone, so i will release it and see if i get any feedback if i do, i may carry on working on it.

android market place

if you are having problems downloading apps from android marketplace and have recently changed your account to a gmail address, change it back to googlemail.com in your gmail settings and the problem with marketplace should be gone.

more details

http://www.bitterwallet.com/googlemail-changes-to-gmail-but-snarls-up-android-phones/29294

Android development

Just started looking at writing Android apps, Ported over my VSWR calculator from the Java mobile version that i did awhile ago and looking into something that uses the GPS and Open GL capability. Also maybe the Barcode scanner. So a few things to look at and to use as learning projects.

Just been reading the market place agreement and i think that will take a few cups of tea to get through :(