A True Work of ART
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] For the past two years Google have been working on something for Android that could herald a sea change on the platform. ART.
Setting The Record Straight
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Commenter Alexander complained that my blog had become “really, but REALLY boring” recently. I was surprised because I thought I had been posting a lot of interesting, technical material lately and I wondered why Alexander seemed to think I was spending most – if not all – of my time on opinion pieces. So I went back and looked at my recent posting history.
Creation Stories
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] In the beginning there was The Word a HWND. But not all gifts of creation can be relied upon, as I just learned. Or rather, remembered.
Extending Smoketest (Part 2) – Great(er) Expectations
[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] In my previous post on Smoketest I showed how you can extend the inspections framework to work with complex types in your code. As promised, I shall now show how you can do much the same thing to extend the framework with entirely new tests.
Delphi for Android Supports Android!
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Jim McKeeth is getting all excited about being able to develop for Google Glass using Delphi XE5. I’m pleased for him, I really am. It must be a huge relief that Delphi for Android can actually target this Android device.
Extending Smoketest (Part 1) – An Inspector Calls
[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] In the soon to be released Smoketest framework it is sometimes useful to create new test types to supplement the tests built-in to the framework. In this and the next post I will walk through the process of implementing and registering a custom test with the Smoketest framework.
ADB WINLOG 1.0.1 – RELEASED!
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] Are you doing Android development ? Whether you are using Delphi or some other Android development tool a key tool in the Android developer’s toolbox is the logcat command, part of the Android SDK. But it can be a little… how to put this kindly… crude. So I put together a rather more useful and – dare I say attractive – front-end under the rather uninspired name of ADB WINLOG.
OFFICIAL*1: Delphi is the Worlds Least Efficient Compiler!
[Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes] That is, according to Embarcadero’s “Chief Evangelist”. I don’t know how else to interpret his claim that the Delphi compiler produces 5MB+ of executable code per line of written code*2.
Blowing Smoke…
[Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes] To alleviate the grind of polishing and sanitising my code (and, let’s be honest, just plain ‘fixing’ it in some cases) ready for release, I have re-kindled my participation on Stack Overflow. In a happy confluence yesterday a question came up which allowed me to exercise one of the libraries that I’m preparing to release: Smoketest.
Best Comment In The History of … well Ever (for ALL values of Ever) ?
[Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minutes] In the comments on Raymond Chen’s blog post today, was a reference to a startling question on Stack-Overflow.