Android Studio vs Eclipse with ADT (2015) [closed]

IMO everything you can do with Android Studio (gradle, maven, etc) you can do it with Eclipse faster and easier and i mean “faster, easier” because in Eclipse if any problems arises like “error XX” you do a quick search on yahoo/google/whatever and thousands of results appears of guys who had the same problem and … Read more

How to create an animated GIF from JPEGs in Android (development)

See this solution. https://github.com/nbadal/android-gif-encoder It’s an Android version of this post. http://www.jappit.com/blog/2008/12/04/j2me-animated-gif-encoder/ To use this class, here is an example helper method to generate GIF byte array. Note here the getBitmapArray() function is a method to return all the Bitmap files in an image adapter at once. So the input is all the Bitmap files … Read more

Substantial Android development in Scala [closed]

I’m programming my Android application project in Scala. If you are interested, you may take a look at this: http://bone.twbbs.org.tw/maidroid/MaidroidOmikuji http://bone.twbbs.org.tw/maidroid/MaidroidReminder Ya, it is a Chinese website, but you may just take a look at screenshots to get some idea about that Scala can do everything with Android SDK just like Java. The source code … Read more

When I load ADT why do I receive the error “The Android SDK requires Android Developer Toolkit version XX.X.X or above?”

For some reason ADT (Eclipse) won’t pick up on the fact that it does in fact need to be updated. Since the built in tools for updating are failing you you’ll have to work around them. On the Help menu instead of selecting Check for Updates instead pick Install New Software (so Help > Install … Read more

Android Build fail – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: already added: Lcom/google/api/client/escape/CharEscapers;

You have same jar library included twice. Check your application and all referenced Android libraries and make sure you have all jars included exactly once. If that does not help, take a look at http://tools.android.com/knownissues. Specifically look at first issue described in Build System section. Also you can read this post: How to fix the … Read more