Developing on Android

I've had an Android phone - the HTC Hero - for almost 3 weeks now and now I feel it is time to get to the next level - developing applications and widgets for this platform. That is why I chose to get an Android so I better get started on it.

This blog-entry is a place and thought holder for research, research plans and ideas for apps and widgets. It is primaryly for my own use and is put online so that I have access to it from different places. You are very welcome use and comment on it.

At a later stage I will put articles on my web site.

Android development can be done on several platforms including Windows, Linux and Mac.

My development platform is my laptop which is running Ubuntu (Linux) 9.10 Karmic Koala. I have to find an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a Version Control System, the Android Source Development Kit. I also need to research the Android APIs.

Following the quick start guide at the Android Development web site the supported IDE is Eclipse version 3.4 and above. This ties in well with my choice of using Ubuntu 9.10 as it contains Eclipse 3.5 whereas Jaunty (9.04) contains only Eclipse 3.2.

First you have to install Eclipse and the lastest JDK.

... to be continued ...

... to be researched:
Android Development with Eclipse - Tutorial by Jack Vogel (Android 2.0 Eclipse 3.5)

pfSense 1.2.3 released

The Firewall/Router pfSense has been released in version 1.2.3. This is a maintenance release in the current stable release tree (1.2.x). For more info read the Release Notice.

pfSense is meant as a firewall application that is managed from a web interface and thus do not need a display and input attached except for installation.

It is based upon FreeBSD and grew out of the m0n0wall preject.