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Now that my kind wife has reenabled my mobile internet for me, it’s time to try out mobile wordpress again.

Now that my kind wife has reenabled my mobile internet for me, it’s time to try out mobile wordpress again.

For most of 2009, I’ve been happily using my T-Mobile VPN service on my new phone, however as of this month T-Mobile has decided to BLOCK my device from their end based solely on the manufacturer of the unit, UNLESS I pay another $25 a month on top of the $20/month I’m already paying for [...]

After searching the forums and the Internet I’ve ascertained that there is no current support for vpnc on the G1. I don’t know if the ARM processor will have trouble keeping up with IPsec, but now that I’ve done a few test programs my next task will be to investigate building vpnc.

Pro-tip: Always have a terminal running and showing the output of adb logcat. That’s where all your System.out.println()s will show up as well as stack dumps of your fatal exceptions.
Not that I ever get fatal exceptions, that is.
Second protip: The ID being assigned in the layout MUST be the android namespace id [...]

I may be really dumb, but it took me forever to figure out how to simply get an app installed on a physical phone. When I finally found out the tools to use, I was getting errors like the one below when I tried to actually copy the app over.

$ adb install ~/sandbox/HelloAndroid/bin/HelloAndroid-debug.apk
123 KB/s [...]

I just received my Android DEV phone in the mail and discovered it’s a bit tricky to set up without purchasing the special service plan that T-Mobile wants you to buy at around $40/month. Unfortunately you CAN NOT setup your android phone without first logging in and syncing to a google account. This [...]

I held off for as long as I could before purchasing an Android phone. Frankly once they offered an unlocked restriction free developer version, it was hard to resist.
Next is to get the build environment working and start tinkering with the OS. Top on my list is figuring out if vpnc can be made [...]