Now the dust has settled around ICS, I thought I’d write a little something on upcoming improvements to AndChat.
Firstly, there is a lot of work being done to make AndChat work great on ICS. The main improvement being worked on is the userlist handling, which will be similar to how it works on Honeycomb and slight changes to the UI. The challenging part with the userlist is the small screen real estate and nick selection and I’m working hard to find a nice way to get it to work.
I loled at their epic fail.
It seems not a single day goes by without someone deciding to write a new article about Twitter. So fucking annoying when you visit the news site and there are new Twitter stories on each. Fucking hell, find something new to write about.
So you downloaded some kewl apps onto your G1 and now you gonna flash your phone to get r00t but don’t want to spend time re-downloading apps from Market? Or some sneaky developer is now charging for a previously free app? Well, I have good news for you! You download the apk files to your pc to install later.
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Phew! I never knew coding such a small app could take so long, but I’ve finally managed to fix the really big bugs and make it run as a service. Anyway, head over to AndroidIRC.net for the file and more info.
Bug reports, feedback and/or constructive criticism welcome (via email preferred).
Better late then never…..or so they say :o
I originally ordered the black phone but T-Mobile fucked up and sent me the white one and to get a black one is a long process, so I’ve decided to stick with it.
Anyway, first impressions:
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When the Android SDK was first released, I didn’t pay much attention to it. But then came time for me to to choose my final year project for Uni. My original choice was snagged by someone else, so I had to make a quick decision, the deadline for choosing the project was the next day.
I had been thinking, before Uni started again, about how it would be a good idea for me to write my own apps for Android, after all, the apps could be written in Java which was something I knew. The app I had in mind was an IRC client for the phone. (Yes, I am an IRC addict :/).
So, sitting in the Uni computer room, I decided I would make an IRC app for Android as a final year project.
2 years since I started blogging, things that have happened since then:
Heh.
Prolly more things to add, but can’t think of ‘em now.
I’m now in my final year of Uni and my final year project is making an IRC client app for Android, written in Java. Should be interesting…
So far the GUI is almost done (*thanks the person who dreamt up using XML for constructing GUIs*), and the text parser is making good progress. \o/ Now a matter of working out how to add the text to the main window and separating channels with tabs. Wish me luck 
So far in 4 days, I’ve had 3 incidents involving my car 
First, a few days ago, I’m driving along minding my own business, I come to a tight road, and some muppet in the opposite direction decides to floor it, hits my wing mirror, knocking it into my car and cracking the wing mirror glass (thankfully nothing happened to the plastic thing keeping the glass in place or the car door!)
I stopped immediately but by the time I turned around, he was long gone. I just hope his car was damaged as well. It’s no biggie though, the glass works fine, and a replacement is pretty cheap.
I made the mobile version Digg back in July 07 for the sake of learning some more PHP. Since then, I’ve stopped using Digg.com (shitty stories, shitty comments, shitty people, shitty site) along with the mobile version I made. Digg also changed around the topics and I haven’t bothered to update the code to reflect them. Digg also their own mobile site (m.digg.com) and I see no point in keeping my version online, since it hardly seems to be used.
But, I will make the code available for download for anyone interested in how it worked or want to make a personalized version of Digg Mobile, so check back soon.
After the previous problems I had with Dell, it was agreed they would send me a new laptop with the WXGA screen instead. It arrived yesterday, and thankfully had no grain and was an LG (LPL0301) 
My excitement was short lived though after seeing the viewing angles on the new screen, it was only slightly better then the CTP model Apart from that, the screen was noticeably brighter (it actually started hurting my eyes) and had no backlight bleed. I do miss the extra space I had on the old WXGA+ screen, an AU Optronics replacement for the CPT one, and it’s a huge shame the screen was so grainy. Even though it wasn’t as bright, it was pretty much perfect for me Thankfully, viewing angles will be a rare problem for me, but maybe sometime in the future, I’ll get tired of it and get an exchange…… 
