Does Google still support SL4A for Android.
I have created an apk file for SL4A which is A6 using the old source code, could anyone kindly let me know if the source code for SL4A is available for the latest Android version(A16>).
Google never actually supported SL4A. The original developer, Damon Kohler, worked at Google, but SL4A was his own project.
I got the impression that Google weren't thrilled about SL4A on Android, for security, stability and performance reasons, but had no problem with Kohler working on it independently. I'm reading between the lines here though, so could be wrong.
The latest version of SL4A should work on more recent Android versions; you just wont have support for new Android API features.
There was at least one other lead maintainer after Kohler, but development was intermittent for a long time, and ground to a complete halt years ago. I know that they struggled to find Java developers that cared about Python on Android.
The SL4A Google Group still exists. You may still find some support there.
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I am rather new to several of the technologies involved here but here is the scenario:
I have a Windows PC at home, a PC laptop and an iPad Pro. I have a React project that I am working on and would like to be able to do so from anywhere. I dont have any kind of VPN solution available, and a usb stick is mostly out for the iPad, so I was wanting to use Google Drive (or as a last resort iCloud) to store the project. Also I do not wish to use github for a number of reasons.
Can anyone outline the best way to work on a React project (With NodeJS) in a cloud based storage and further how to run / deploy it from the iPad station? Thank you!
I Think you have to use a git repository (github, gitlab or bitbucket works great), and all your machines should have the tools pre-installed (node, code editor).
If you want to code without any tool, I recommend https://codesandbox.io, it works great with small/medium projects. One of it's downside is that your projects will be public on the internet.
This morning, I tried to get a coop student up and running on an older version of the Google App Engine for Eclipse plugin.
The following website and all related links appear to have been wiped off the face of the earth:
https://developers.google.com/eclipse/
Is this just down at the moment?
Is it possible to get older versions of the plugin?
While it is correct that the Google Plugin for Eclipse has been removed from Google's documentation, it is still available.
To install it, in Eclipse Neon, click "Install new Software" and add in this URL.
http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/4.6
Next, click through the dialogues to allow the installation, and restart Eclipse.
While Google has chosen to stop supporting this, I personally feel that the new Cloud Tools for Eclipse plugin is just not ready. Also, in the early days, JDO was what many people were using on top of the data layer, and since GAE has been around for 10+ years, many of us have a lot of infrastructure built on top of this that is costly to change. While it's still possible, in theory, to run the DataNucleus enhancer manually, it's a huge pain that requires in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of GAE and DataNucleus and knowledge of which dependencies go together. It may have been well-documented in the past, but today it is not.
But be warned, one of our engineers recently lost the ability to deploy the project to Google App Engine using the GPE and was forced to use the gcloud tool, which doesn't seem to have sensible defaults, like deploying to a non-default version and instead will deploy straight to default, well, by default. So we're writing a script around that command that will pass in --no-promote so it doesn't immediately start migrating traffic... Visit the gcloud reference for app deploy for more details. Good luck!
For more information on the install process, please see How to install Google Plugin for Eclipse on mkyong.com.
GPE is indeed gone. It was not up to date and many parts of it no longer functioned. Over the coming year, even more core functionality was going to break. We wouldn't be doing anyone any favors by letting them invest their time in a broken tool. This is doubly true for new users such as your students. There are some old GPE snapshots floating around here and there, but those don't really work with GCP in 2018.
That official documentation is most likely gone for good, the plugin was deprecated in favour of the Google Cloud Tools for Eclipse. From Migrating from the Google Plugin for Eclipse:
The Google Plugin for Eclipse is deprecated and will not be supported
beyond Eclipse 4.6 (Neon). It will be removed in early 2018.
This document describes how to migrate a project that uses the Google
Plugin for Eclipse to the supported tooling.
You can check the snapshots of the docs on the Wayback Machine, and maybe still find the matching code repositories, if they haven't been removed as well.
But it's probably a good idea to switch to the supported tools sooner than later, especially since they're just getting started.
Related: Migrating GAE project to Java 8 - get XML validation error after adding runtime property to appengine-web.xml
The methods that are missing from the apk file are
BorderLayout.centerEastWest()
Dialog constructor with (String, Layout) as arguments.
There are probably more but these are the ones I encountered. I can work around the problem by using alternate methods and constructor but there seems to be a mismatch between the local library and the android build library.
Please note that when building the project I had to use the android.gradle=false hint for the apk to be readable on my older android 2.3.6 device. Without this hint the apk is not accepted on the device.
In addition the theme resource file is not loaded on the device while it is in the simulator. All these problems might be related ?
Thanks for your help
New features are no longer added to the old Ant build pipeline as maintaining it has become unwieldy since Google no longer supports proper versions of play services or other features we need.
We still have it for compatibility for people who built old applications with it but it's version of the Codename one libraries is frozen in time as newer versions of the libraries will break it. Google killed support forthe 2.x device family ages ago in play services so basic things like in-app purchase or proper location API's can't work on those old devices. The problem is that supporting them would make support for newer features MUCH harder.
I've edited the docs to reflect that this flag is deprecated.
I wanna develop a game app, which should be platform independent. is spritebuilder a cross platform?
Currently, SpriteBuilder exports project files for Xcode limiting development to iOS. Plans are in the works so that SpriteBuilder can export for Android Studio as well, but as of this writing the current version of SpriteBuilder does not support this capability.
If you are still interested in using SpriteBuilder for iOS, you can use Apportable's free service to help translate your Objective-C code to run natively on Android. This will require additional programming and knowledge of another SDK such as Android Studio.
Unity is another free SDK that you can use to publish cross platform games that are 3D, although you will no longer be building truly native Apps for either iOS or Android.
Should this answer be sufficient, please mark "correct answer", else, let me know if there are any further questions you may have.
I am studying WML and WAP at semester 5 in BscIT and i had hard time finding the nokia wap toolkit as used in my books.When i finally got a copy from a friend , it never loaded the jvm even though beside java 1.6 that was previouly installed i installed jre 1.4 .Besides i have a dual booting windows7/Ubuntu12.04. i clearly prefer working from Ubuntu. Is there any alternatives. Like IDE, eclipse, netbeans, intellij ? what I've seen so far are Android sdk,java MIDP projects from these IDEs but not some sort of wml project.
Please point me to the right direction. thank you
You could try the Openwave SDK, which has been helpfully archived here. Sadly, just like the Nokia WAP Toolkit it is no longer available or supported by the manufacturer.
Obviously it isn't going to match the examples in your books, but it should give you a simple environment in which to run and test WAP applications. Note this is Windows only, and pre-dates Windows 7; hopefully it will run.
do code in a document file and give .wml extension. After that to run this code just add a add-ons to your firefox. It's great to work with these.
Thanks.