[CALUG] Android SDK

[John Alan Hastings]

Jim,

That was the problem.  Thanks.

Your comments on Sun and Oracle are right on target.  I think the term
is pathologically competitive, and I am afraid that Oracle is damaging
everything that they touch: java, open office, mysql.  Time will tell.

Okay, eclipse seems to be doing what it is supposed to do.

Thanks again.

Alan

Jim Sansing wrote:
> 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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