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Certificate Problems Submitting APK to ADC2

androidWheel of Yum has been on the Android market for a few weeks now and keeps getting lot’s of positive feedback. So a few days ago we decided to submit it to this year’s Android Developer Challenge. We agreed on some new features, an improved UI design, and got coding. Being that the ADC submission deadline is tomorrow midnight PT we knew we were kind of up against a wall getting a new release ready, but got everything built and tested by early Sunday evening anyway … and thats when we tried to submit our app to the ADC market…

31 Aug 2009
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PNG Alpha Channels Don’t Render So Well On Top of SurfaceViews

androidWorking on the new UI for our upcoming 1.1 release of Wheel of Yum I ran into a bug in how Android renders the alpha channel data of a PNG file laid out above a SurfaceView.

29 Aug 2009
chris
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View.startAnimation Delays Execution for Empty Container Views

androidUnable to sleep, I got hacking at our upcoming release of Wheel of Yum this morning only to get totally stuck on a bug in how Android animates empty container views. In our particular case we have a custom view derived from FrameLayout that adds a single LinearLayout as it’s only child view upon construction. At runtime, our custom view listens for Touch events and dynamically adds\removes various ImageView instances to the inner LinearLayout. When a given Touch event is complete (i.e. MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) the LinearLayout starts a fade-out style animation:

21 Aug 2009
chris
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