This contains resources for developers. This includes programming articles, software configuration articles, and software design articles.
LoRa has been getting a lot of attention lately: IBM, Cisco, and Espotel to name a few. She caught my eye early on, but I didn’t really like the idea of thousands of motes broadcasting messages through transparent ‘dumb’ gateways to a central server in the cloud before any useful actions could be taken on … Read more
The idea came to me the other day as I was assigning a value to a variable in Java. I asked myself, “What units are being used for this variable?” Every number you enter into a programming language has some type of units associated with it. Some units are simple: feet, pounds, inches, meters. Other … Read more
We just finished submitting a proposal to the adt-dev Google Group. Here is a link to the new proposal. The goal of the proposal is to get a set of standard Ant tasks developed for Android. We would appreciate some feedback on this proposal. Let us know if you would like to help or have … Read more
Find out why mocking frameworks are considered harmful. Why do software engineers love them? Does it have something to do with code?
Disgruntled Rats Android microtransactions (in-app billing) library has just been released as open source.
News, discussions, and an overview of Android microtransactions/in-app billing for September 11, 2011.
Thanks to everyone who attended our session on game development in Android yesterday. Sean, Brian and I all had a great time and enjoyed the questions and interactive discussions. If you have any other questions for us, send us an email at disgruntledrats@gmail.com. Here is a copy of the presentation we gave. Also, the Java … Read more
In preparation for the Twin Cities Java User Group Presentation on August 9th, 2011, the Disgruntled Rats have added new Android example projects to their website. Check out the following link for more information: http://www.disgruntledrats.com/?page_id=545 We will continue adding examples and content to our website that is useful to developers as time permits. Cheers and … Read more
This is a short article for those familiar with OpenGL’s programmable pipeline and are interested in using the OpengGL ES 2.0 API for Android development. To use the OpenGL ES API in an Android environment you have to setup a GLSurfaceView object, override the GLSurfaceView.Renderer, and attach the renderer to the surfaceview. Additionally, you could … Read more
The Disgruntled Rats are presenting information on game development for the Android platform. We have been working on building an Android graphics engine for over a year now and have interesting lessons to share. Everything from basic game components (sound, sprites, events) to complex calculations (AI, transformations, and physics). Also included in the presentation will … Read more