Thursday, August 30, 2018
Why dont I write an Android version of PDX Bus
Why dont I write an Android version of PDX Bus
This is one of the most common questions about PDX Bus, and I have not really answered it. So here goes!
Firstly - part of me really likes the idea of porting the app to Android. Being an iPhone developer for a free app can be incredibly annoying:
- I have to pay Apple $100 a year for the privilege of being able to put an app on a device. (Yes the Civic App awards prize money covers that, but it i still annoying that actually I am the only one who has to pay to use PDX Bus!).
- The app approval process is still slow and feels random. You may get rejected as Apple may simply decide your app does something they dont like. It can take anything from 2 days to 2 weeks to get approved.
- Technically, the apps in the app store cannot be "free" by the definition of the GPL - apps cannot be shared or modified by their users. Kids cant experiment with writing apps. It feels like censorship. This is just annoying.
- PDX Bus is written entirely in Objective-C, Android apps are written in Java or recently C/C++. You might think that this is a small difference... Objective-C is quite different from these languages in syntax. The code looks really different, it would need completely re-writing.
- The back end data retrieval code is tightly coupled to Objective-C frameworks. For example, Apple provides an XML parser - this returns the tags and data in Objective-C associative arrays ("NSDictionary") from which you access the XML tagged data and place it into objective-C objects for use by the UI. Thisll need completely re-writing. PDX Bus currently deals with 10 different XML schemas for the different data.
- The GUI is written entirely with Apple frameworks (UIKit) and none of it can be re-used - Android GUIs have a completely different paradigm. The GUI has been a lot more work than the back end. Even the Google Maps API is completely different on the two platforms.
The Tim Episode
The Tim Episode
Tim crashed the computer on the first attempt... the interview was an hour and twenty minutes. He was determined to outdo himself this time. So, put on some stretchy pants, get something to eat, and grab something cold to drink. Heres Tim!https://archive.org/download/TheTimEpisode/The%20Tim%20Episode.mp3
Angry Birds Seasons Games Download For Android
Angry Birds Seasons Games Download For Android
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Angry Birds Seasons Games Screen Shot:
Angry Birds Seasons: Cherry Blossom Festival
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ANP contemplates post Aye Maung era
ANP contemplates post Aye Maung era
By DVB 5 January 2018
The recent resignation of party leader Dr. Aye Maung looks set to dominate discussions at the Arakan National Party�s (ANP�s) Annual General Meeting this week in Sittwe.
As around 100 party members gathered for the 4-7 January summit in the Rakhine state capital, several representatives voiced their disquiet with Aye Maung quitting as ANP chairman in November, and some have even proposed rejecting his letter of resignation.
Aye Maung was regarded as a party stalwart and is one of the most outspoken politicians in the country. An ex-veterinarian, his political career began when he formed the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) to contest the 2010 general election. He led the RNDP into a merger with its main regional rival, the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD), led by Aye Thar Aung. Negotiations between the two parties took some eight months before they agreed to form the ANPin January 2014. But the merger has never been a harmonious marriage, being fraught with rivalry and conflicts since the outset.
Now members must face the prospect of an ANP without its frontman, and contemplate during the four-day AGM how they can move forward.
ANP general-secretary Tun Aung Kyaw told DVBthat although Aye Maung was invited to the AGM, he has not yet appeared.
Source: DVB
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