6/24/2023 0 Comments Free42 android appI've installed the alpha release using the eoeAppInstaller application in the Droid Market. Looks like I have some old-fashioned printf debugging to do!) (UPDATE 2: Maybe I'm just not dealing with the Android app life cycle correctly, and the app appears to die on startup when the OS tries to revive an instance that wasn't shut down cleanly.) It just doesn't seem to happen while running under debugger control. Clearly something that needs to be looked into! (UPDATE: Actually, it happens all the time in the simulator, or more precisely, every second time. I've noticed this failure to launch even in the simulator, but it doesn't happen very often there. I don't know what's going on there yet, but I'll have to look into it. I just installed the app on a borrowed AT&T HTC Aria, and I have to start it twice quite often, too. Crashing is certainly not desirable behavior. I haven't tried dealing with landscape mode yet - I should probably just disable that until I'm ready to to deal with it. Also on both, one has to start the application sometimes twice, as the first start returns nothing. On both devices the application terminates when the devices is turned from landscape to portrait and vice versa (no visible forced close). You can't download it from Android Market yet, so if your phone does not allow side-loading, you won't be able to use the alpha, unfortunately. The HP-42S emulation should work right now on any Android phone with a 320x480 screen and OS version 1.5 or later. If you are feeling adventurous, please try my alpha release and let me know what you think. If you just want to keep an eye on my progress, take a look at every now and then. If you're not interested in testing an early alpha, I totally understand that's up to you. The missing functionality will take another 2-4 weeks, at which point I'll start calling it a beta, and then I'll spend another 2-4 weeks fixing bugs and polishing the app to get it ready for general release. There is still a lot of functionality missing (program import/export and printer emulation are the big ones), so I'm still in the early alpha stages. I've been working on the Free42 Android port for a few weeks now, and it's at the stage where it is actually usable.
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