[CALUG] Android SDK

[Jim Sansing]

If your JRE is gcj, I have found that Eclipse runs a lot better with 
Sun's JRE than gcj.  The last time I tried to use gcj with Eclipse, I 
was doing SSL networking and it simply did not work.  When I switched to 
the Sun java package, my app not only started working, Eclipse 
performance was easily twice as fast.

Be aware that if you leave gcj installed, you have to configure the 
system to use Sun java instead (unless the package handles it for you).  
This includes:

1) Set /etc/alternative/java* using the update-java-alternatives script 
(or update-alternatives if the java specific script is not available)
2) Make sure Eclipse is using the right JRE in Window -> Preferences -> 
Java -> Build Path -> Classpath Variables

BTW, I am not praising Sun here.  I think it was a dirty trick they 
pulled by not working with FOSS on Java, and now with Oracle muddying up 
the waters, the details of what Sun didn't do when they finally "open 
sourced" Java are coming out.  I am not ready to ditch it entirely, but 
I am definitely looking at other alternatives.  As far as Android goes, 
I don't expect Oracle to win, and even if they do, I expect Google to 
indemnify developers and users.  But the whole business seems like a lot 
of pain for little or no gain to me.

Later . . .   Jim


John Alan Hastings wrote:
> I am setting up an Android SDK and am running into some fragility.
>
> I have set up Android with eclipse on one machine which is running
> Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS).  This works smoothly and without a problem.  This
> machine is heavy and not very portable.
>
> I bought a nice little Asus EeePC model  1018PS.  1.1 kg and a battery
> life in excess of 6 hours.  I blew away Windows and installed Ubuntu
> 10.04.  This machine is very light, very portable and will be a very
> good advertisement for Linux when it arrives on the customer's premises.
>
> If it works.
>
> Which it doesn't.
>
> I installed eclipse (Galileo) and android (the latest version, whatever
> it is, and the same one that is on the other machine).  The JRE and JDK
> which they say is required came from the Ubuntu repository and both are
> present.
>
> Eclipse starts and runs, but when I try to install the android plugin, I
> start getting critical errors.  The most frequent is:
>
>   murrine_style_draw_box: assertion 'height >= -1' failed
>
> There must be a memory leak, because in fairly short order it crashes
> with an out of memory condition.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Alan
>
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