Abugadro stores the database on the SDCard. Since all (current) Android devices have limited internal memory, storing “megabytes upon megabytes” of data for each application is unreasonable. The problem with storing stuff on the SDCard is that there isn’t a single defined directory where developers can store stuff, and the user can easily back up. [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
My Android Market Wishlist
Now that Abugadro’s on the Market, I’ve found the lack of Android Market features disturbing. And I’m not alone at that. Five Issues have stood out above them all, and I’d like to point them out today, in hopes that it’ll get someone at Google to pay attention and finally solve them. Issue 2851. Tag [...]
Abugadro v0.0.8 “Brave Barnacle” now available
It’s a quick-fix release. The changes are: If you have no Internet access, it will display an Alert icon, that, when pressed, will explain that you have no Internet access. This is better than displaying a horrible Exception screen. When ‘refreshing’ the issues list, it should only bring back the issues for the current project. [...]
Abugadro v0.0.7 – Adorable Ant landed on the Android Market!
I’m extremely pleased to announce that the first public release of Abugadro, v0.0.7 “Adorable Ant” has just landed on the Android Market at the low, low price of Free. If visiting this page from your Android device, just click on the QR Code to open it, or search for “Abugadro” on the Market. This release [...]
Posted in android
Comparing XML Parsers: DOM vs Pull vs SAX
Long story short? SAX is faster. There, you don’t have to read the article. Since it’s no secret that fetching Issues from Launchpad, Google Code and Bugzilla involves parsing RSS/ATOM feeds, I decided to poke around and investigate which parser to use and the advantages each carried. After a few seconds of Googling, I found [...]
Posted in Parsers
I’m bloggin’ this
I really like blogging. Almost as much as coding itself. But today, I decided to stop typing and start showing some images of what’s up. The URLs they’re at are kinda static, and I’ll be updating them from time to time, so look around and enjoy! Please note that the app is still in heavy [...]
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Did you mean… Avogadro?
In case it wasn’t fairly obvious, the name ‘Abugadro’ is a mix between “Avogadro” and “Bugs”. You can call it “Abuga” if you want, since I hear “Abugadro” is kinda hard to pronounce for Portuguese-speakers (Or so my buddy Matruskan tells me). This project is intended to make browsing Launchpad, Google Codes and Bugzilla projects [...]
I am not a lawyer
Free Software Licenses are complicated. ‘Borrowing’ code from other projects, more so. In Abugadro’s case, I decided to *ahem* ‘borrow’ the layout used in Google’s IOSched app, since I’m basically an Android n00blet, and making layouts is somewhat complicated without any graphical references, making *pretty* layouts, more so. So I’ve been working on Abugadro’s look [...]
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Abugadro, the Android Bug Tracker
Abuga, the Android Bug Buddy Abugadro is a Free and Open Sourced Android app that’ll help developers keep track of the different projects they’re involved in. Its currently under heavy development, but screenshots and code will be flowing in on the following days. I’d like to extend a gigantic “Thanks” to Matruskan, for creating “Abuga”, [...]
