Android & Eclipse “Could not find *.apk”

August 21st, 2010 by Christian 4 comments »

If you’re using Eclipse to develop Android applications and get the error:

[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] ------------------------------
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] Android Launch!
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] adb is running normally.
[2010-08-16 19:56:41 - xxx] Could not find xxx.apk!
[2010-08-16 19:58:04 - xxx] ------------------------------

after importing a project (maybe doing some reconfiguring), just remove the project (only the project from Eclipse, not from disk!).
Then simply re-import it and it should work again!

Update March 14th: according to Sean, you can get this error also by having the emulator already running and changing the project SDK. The solution then is to close the emulator and run it again from eclipse. Thanks for the info!

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Posted in Game Development, Misc

Tags: Android

Level Master 2000: OSX test succeeded!

August 15th, 2010 by Christian No comments »

Since I use Qt and Qt Creator, I thought: “why not try a OS X build?”. I didn’t plan to invest much time in it, as time is rare, but I was simply too curious to resist. So I installed Qt SDK and Qt Creator on a Mac, opened up the Level Master 2000-project and…. CRASH =)
Qt Creator reported, that some files couldn’t be found, but when clicking on the include statement in code, the path seemed to be correct, as I could open the header file with F2.
So here’s what fixed it:

Clean all targets
Regenerate the qMake file via Qt Creator
Rebuild the project
Install the latest Flashplayer and add the app/AS3/bin directory to Flash Player’s local trusted

That was it! See for yourself:

Level Master 2000: running on OS X

The GUI needs a bit work though (e.g. the “delete entity” button), but all in all I’m really impressed how easy this was.

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Posted in Level Master 2000, PushButton Engine, Rapid Prototyping in Game Development

Tags: ActionScript Flash Level Master 2000 Qt Rapid Prototyping Thesis

I am on twitter now…

August 10th, 2010 by Christian No comments »

For a long time, I tried to not use it…but as with most trendy things, it sooner or later catches up to you. So I’m on twitter now: hr_zog – Follow me if you like! I might also implement a retweet function to my blog posts.

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Posted in Misc

Fable III

August 7th, 2010 by Christian No comments »

Fable III has a really nice intro video:

I also stumbled over this interview.
Wow! If only part of this is true, I can’t wait for it to be released! Unfortunately, the PC release seems to be delayed and a new date has not yet been announced.

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Way to go…ogle

August 4th, 2010 by Christian No comments »

Although I mainly like google, especially for their Android stuff, I also must say I really really dislike their account managment. About a year ago, I installed google talk. For that you needed google mail. My common nicks where all taken, so I picked a stupid one. After using google talk a bit, I tried to disable it…no chance. I had a hard time finding the delete button of the google mail account too…but somehow I managed to do it. Everyting fine again.

Last weekend I logged into Android Market on a mobile phone and somehow the old stupid email nick got activated again. And not that that would have been enough, it also replaced my google account name, showing up in e.g. all the google code pages…that sucks hard! Again I tried deleting or deactivating all the apps which use the name (google mail and talk) – with partial success. Yesterday evening, my old nick appeared on google code again. Today, the stupid one once more…and now after some more clicking around – nearly getting crazy – the old one again.