Archive for September, 2009

Yep, that’s right, I said it, iPhone is going to be a winner.

But this isn’t over any hate towards Google, Android, Cyanogen etc. but just more of the fact that Android is at a point of heading down 2 roads. One road leads to Android being fragmented, losing alot of it’s value. The other road leading to a community using different devices but one central set of app’s. I better explain what I’m talking about.

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Tags: Android, Cyanogen, Google, iPhone, Motorola
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I was doing some development on an app and got some weird behaviour where 3 buttons, all of the same background would line up as expected in eclipse and the emulator, but when I inserted a different button in the centre, it messed up when ran on the emulator.

I played around with a number different layouts trying to work out how I was going to fix this, assuming it was just my layout that was playing up. But I got curious and played around with the 9 patch png used for the new button and quickly realised that was the problem. To explain further, compare the left image (The layout shown in eclipse, how I wanted the view to display, and the right is how it displayed when inflated in the emulator [Ignore the button widths - that was me playing around, just look at the heights]).

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Tags: Android, Development, Nine Patch PNG
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