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My first Android application on Play store, The Address.

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This is exciting to get my first Google Play store application. Previously I worked on some Android applications, but nothing was up there in the Play Store. For me its really a different experience pushing it to the Play store. Unlike pushing to Apple App store, the Play Store push feels like no brainer.
Now, talking about the application, its a personal note taking application for an absolute necessary address. This application does not require internet connection at all. Its a pure standalone application on its own. Its private to the user.
Open up the application, fill out the form to add an address and save it. Thats all it does. Once you come back to get the address, it shows upfront the saved address. Incase you are done with the currently stored address, update the form with a new address and save it. It does not store history of your previous addresses.
Now the implementation is done with Cordova (phonegap) 2.7 , jQuery 2.0 , jQuery Mobile 1.3 , lawnchair and GASP JS(GreenSock Animation Platform for Javascript). Its completely opensource and the code can be found at Github.

Looking forward to listen from you all.

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Dartlang for devices with Rikulo

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While working with Rikulo is as straight forward as working with any other packages of Dart, to make this work in devices, one has to keep following things in mind.
First of all "Rikulo" itself is not capable of doing device level development, rather it depends upon "phonegap" (now cordova) and to compile against this, there is another package named "Rikulo Gap". So the basic pub setup looks as this.

dependencies:
  rikulo:
  rikulo_gap:

Once installed the development process is straight forward as Dart itself while taking advantage of the Cordova APIs.
Upon completion of the development process, jump into "Dart to Javascript" compiler and generate the javascript file for the project. Fortunately thats as simple as going to "Tools" menu and clicking "Generate Javascript" in the Dart Editor. One has to select the ".dart" file first, for which the javascript file has to be generated. Upon successful generation of the file, the generated file name would be something like "myProject.dart.js".
Now you have to add this "js" file in your "html" file like the usual "script" tag. That means to deploy to Cordova, you have to add two script tags as below.

 
<script src="packages/browser/dart.js"></script>
<script src="myProject.dart.js"></script>
 

Once done, open up the Eclipse or which ever IDE you are using to develop the Cordova (phonegap) applications, copy the ".html" and ".js" file into the respective folders of the Cordova project.
Lastly, but most importantly, remove the version number from the cordova JS file (for example cordova-2.3.0.js to cordova.js).
Now we have a workable native application built with Dart, Rikulo and Cordova.

Happy Darting !

RayTrace V4.1.0 is now released

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Well, its a long time since anything happening here. The good news is finally the long awaited feature of the smallest logger ie; RayTrace is available as of today. This is the vertical scrollbar for the logs.
I must say its more than just a requirement for this logger. Though we could scroll through the logs with mouse wheel or by selecting text from the logger, but then we do needed the scroller. The scroller is still is still way far from perfect, but at least the feature is active and is there for scrolling through all the data from initial to final.
The source code is up in github as well and the workable or binary files are here for you to download and use.
Thank you so much the patience and have a nice time logging.
Happy coding.

Java for iOS and Android

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It seems that its a long wait for the Java developers. But the good news is the wait is over. finally we have an SDK which expects us to write in Java and deploy our application into iOS and Android.
Codename One is an opensource SDK, library, deployment system, all in all a platform to develop for mobile platforms.
The short story is I tried to put a simple helloworld application to put in my android phone and it took only 30 minutes to make my development environment ready to deploy to the phone.
Well, the whole of the SDK is just a plugin to Eclipse or Netbeans, depends upon your preferred IDE of choice. Thats all to it. What a developer gets, is a GUI builder, a simulator, the SDK and the complete framework. Now go straight into the IDE and start building the application you want to do with the Java skills. Finally decide where you want to put it, iOS or Android, select the option and push it to the cloud, so that Codename One cloud will make the build for you to deploy into the device. Thats a no brainer deployment and code migration.
What all that means is, one is very well ready to develop iOS applications in windows machine. A very nice and well thought of SDK and framework.

Happy Coding.

RayTrace v4.0.0 is released

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Well, this release is mostly an UI update. There is a major functionality update of this new release is the "Advanced" settings. If you are using the default mode, it will work as it was working previously.
With advanced mode, one need to change two things. One is the "raytrace.as" which comes budled with this application. Inside this file one has to put the connection name. This name could be any string, it could be your project name, version name or your name, but then remember this name so as to put the same name in advanced setting text input (thats the second setting). After that its as usual process.
The release version can be found here for direct download and use. The source code is up in github.

Happy Haxe -ing

An IDE for HAXE and NME for every OS

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The long wait is over! The search for a perfect IDE for Haxe and NME is finally over. Thanks to the hard work of Joshua Granick. He is still in development of this feature, but for me I found it perfectly alright to use it in my Mac OSX.
So the IDE is Mono Develop and making it a Haxe and NME IDE is just enabling the addin for it. Presently its a manual process but thats ok I think. The Addin is on the github.
Everything is just straight forward. Just a little thing on command line is to create a .hxml file in OSX. I am not sure if thats the case in other OSs. Navigate to your newly created project folder from Terminal and fire up the command below (where {projectName} should be replaced with your own project name)

haxelib run nme display {projectName}.nmml mac>{projectName}.hxml

Thats all to it. Just open up MonoDevelop and enjoy code hilight, code hinting and compilation from inside the IDE.

Happy haXe -ing

RayTrace v3.0.0

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A new release of RayTrace, the simplest flash logger. Its made with haXe and compiled with NME for SWF output.

The feature list is as below
1. Stop and start button (To start the logger and stop the logger)
2. A sightly improved GUI (some colors at last)

With that here is the link to the compiled code (SWF and the lib for directly use in your project) and here is the github source code.

Happy haXe -ing

haXe : raytrace v2.0.0

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This started of as my own little utility but then I use it in almost all the flash, flex, haXe applications when output is SWF. Now its available as a opensource project in github and the final compile dfiles are here, if you just want to use it.
This is nothing more than a logger named raytrace. It takes string as the only parameter and the implementation is done in haXe and NME.
Just put the "raytrace.as" in the root folder of your flash/flex application and then from anywhere in your code one can write 

 
raytrace('my message');
 

Then this message will be visible in this RayTrace swf. Both the ".as" file and the ".swf" are packaged here as a zip file for your no time getting started.

Happy haXe -ing

RayTrace : An external logger for flash

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Well, with my moving forward with haXe and NME, I needed an external logger for flash targets. Though there is a trace message view by default in haXe, it is necessary to have an external logger for me. RayTrace is written in haXe and can be used in any flash and flex based applications not only written in haXe. So if you are doing a pur actionscript or flex project, still you can use RayTrace as your logger. It comes with a client class for flash based projects, which is written in actionscript. Just put the file in the root directory and you are good to go. From anywhere in your actionscript code do a raytrace as below.

raytrace('my message');

The message you send from your code will be visible in the RayTrace logger. Currently it simply supports the string message only.

The source code is available in github as well so as if you want can go ahead and write your own implementation.

happy haXe -ing

NME 3.1.1 is released

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In between our learning time, the NMe team has updated the library to its latest version. The new NME version is 3.1.1. Go straight away to the download section and start playing in the new toy.

Happy haXe -ing