I've always had a passion for taking things apart to see how they worked - and with old software running on (virtually) lost hardware this can be fun detective work :) I played around with both a DEC VAX and a (MIPS based) DECStation a long time ago and wanted to see how well these systems can be e…
Kevin ReadI needed to cross-compile a modern nginx for armhf for the Eurotech Reliagate 10-11 hardware we use for Om7Sense. Thankfully I came across this handy blog post. Building on that, here is how I cross-compiled 1.9.3 with SSL and rewrite support for a Linux box based on Yocto 1.6 without having to deal…
Kevin ReadFor our latest iteration of Guidants Mobile we wanted a carousel-like view of information panels. The user can reorder these, add new ones or delete the ones he doesn’t like. To this end I used ViewPager together with FragmentStatePagerAdapter and Fragments. The problem here is that FragmentStatePa…
Kevin ReadMobile devices often have spotty network connectivity - rural areas, sitting in the subway or in a car are classic situations where the connection suffers. So mobile native or web apps need to take this into account and degrade gracefully when network requests time out or the response takes a long t…
Kevin ReadI was faced by a fairly ugly issue on Guidants Mobile these days. After the 4.3 update by Samsung our app crashed on the S3 and the Note 2 with a corrupted heap whenever the OpenGL ES Surface (in this case a TextureView) was closed. The crash didn’t occur on 4.1 or on other devices. The crash log mi…
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