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MASH-up

May 25th, 2011

Today we released the first iteration of MASH, the “Modern Alchemists ShiVa Libs”:

Modern Alchemists ShiVa Libs is a bundle of custom written ShiVa addons. All projects rely on ShiVa 1.9 and UAT 1.2 beta 7. This doesn’t mean it won’t work with older versions, but the docs might refer to code hockups which weren’t present back then.

All code is under LGPL License. If you like our work, tell us! If not, tell us even more! Got a code fix? Tell us… you get the idea ;)

It features:

  • MASS: In-App-Purchase for iOS and Android
  • MAOF: OpenFeint for iOS and Android
  • Mortar (TBA): automating the world!

You can get all the files/code either from the download section or via SVN at  google code: http://code.google.com/p/ma-sh/

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Android: Could not reserve enough space for object heap

April 15th, 2011

If you ever get an error like
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
or
BUILD FAILED
...ant_rules_r3.xml:361: The following error occurred while executing this line:
...ant_rules_r3.xml:174: apply returned: 1,
don’t let yourself get fooled about some threads found on google.

The answer why your VM crashes is, that the heap space trying to be allocated is not free in physical memory.

That means: try to decrease the setting for max heap space in the file android-sdk-windows/platform-toolsdx.bat to smaller value. I had to change it to 512M instead of 1024M, meaning:
set defaultMx=-Xmx512M

And tada, off you go!

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Update: Drag and drop install APK script

April 5th, 2011

I updated the Drag and drop install APK script post, such that it works with the latest Android SDK! Hope it helps ;)

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AIDL Files: Eclipse Not Generating Source Code?

March 14th, 2011

If you ever wonder why eclispe doesn’t generate a source file for your AIDL file, try installing the latest Eclispe version (currently Helios)! It might be a bit time consuming, since you also have to install the Android Development Tools (ADT) again, but it’s worth it… as it then magically works!

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Visual Update

February 2nd, 2011

I’m currently redesigning the blog. I put a first version of the new theme live, but things will still change… I’ll also register a new domain and – tada! It’s now AD-FREE!

Update Feb 10th: I’m doing some tests with the new domain. Currently it’s running, but not as intended to (still got some frame-issues which I don’t want). So in case you see some missing GFX or so, it’s me testing ;)

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