We’re pleased to announce that the Subversion component of Google Code Project Hosting has been upgraded to version 1.5. What does this mean to users? If you’re using a Subversion 1.5 client, you can now take advantage of Subversion’s improved “merge tracking” feature to manage branches.
And my favorite line in this blog entry:
Live in fear of branches no more!
Coming Soon: Internationalization and Localization are critical, but are also not quite ready yet in the current SDK. As the SDK matures, this section will contain information on the Internationalization and Localization features of the Android platform. In the meantime, it is a good idea to start by externalizing all strings, and practicing good structure in creating and using resources.
It does seem Google Android is lacking in that respect. Since the 2Chan browser is mostly about Japanese, it may force me to write some more code.
The Android Logo (AKA Droid Robot) was modified. Original logo is shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.
I am sorry to announce that the Html project is postponed to a later date.
Would like to complete the 2Chan browser as soon as possible, and although an Html parser would have been nice, it is not really necessary. For the 2chan browser, the parser required is quite simple and can be accomplished by a dedicated parser.
Again, sorry, and I do promise to continue this project at a later date.
One more comment on Nekohtml: If you are familiar with it, you know it requires Xerces, therefore the porting project should start from that. There is a guy who claimed he has done that, but I couldn’t find any link to the ported lib.
The Android Logo (AKA Droid Robot) was modified. Original logo is shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.
Nekohtml zip includes a JAR file.
Add the JAR to the build path, and hope for the best.
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
Failed!
W/dalvikvm( 170): Unable to resolve superclass of Lorg/cyberneko/html/parsers/DOMParser; (115) W/dalvikvm( 170): Link of class 'Lorg/cyberneko/html/parsers/DOMParser;' failed W/dalvikvm( 170): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 196 (Lorg/cyberneko/html/parsers/DOMParser;)
Android API has a SAX XML parser. But, what do you do when you want to parse HTML?
The SAX XML parser will work great till it encounters an XML error, a mismatched tag as an obvious example. The parser will throw an exception. You can implement the warning and error functions, but it will not help, the exception will still occur, halting the parsing process.
Therefore, the only solution is to import an external HTML parser to Android.
I have searched, read, compared and decided to use NekoHtml . Not sure how the programming team selected the name, but looks like a strong implementation.
I will document all the steps I take to include this library, until the hopefully succesful outcome.
First read the news at AkihabaraNews, Fujitsu are going to offer Consulting, training, Engineering services.
The press release is here [JP], with two upcoming seminars in February. (Too bad I will arrive to Japan only at the end of February and will not be able to attend these seminars).
As Fujitsu market the Android, it is not only for Mobile phones, but as an embedded platform for several services:Point of Sale, Office equipment… almost everything 
Brochure [JP] is here
Below the Nichan (2Chan browser) basic design:
MySQL workbench will help you design your MySQL Database.
The only problem is, binaries are not available for Linux amd64 machines. (Again, I kick myself for choosing amd64).
So, what a normal Linux guy does? – Obviously, download the source code, compile and try to run. I have done just that, created a debian package (after making sure all lib dependencies are met).
But, the workbench does not start. I get a very nice splash screen, but that’s it:
I must admit, after some more fiddling, trying, guessing, I started a Windows vitual machine (over Virtualbox) downloaded the windows installation, and it works perfectly.
Nothing much, but I have just created the Google Code Project for the 2Chan browser, located at: http://code.google.com/p/nichan-browser-android/
Still a mere place holder, but I hope to start Check-Ins in the next week.
Have just started developing a 2Channel browser for Google Android. This project will be developed as open source, and will be available at the Android Market for free.
The inspiration came from different Linux 2chan browsers as Kita2 and JD 2ch (both available for Ubuntu, using Synaptic), as well as Gikolet.(J2ME)
It is still not decided if I will reuse any of the code mentioned above. Kita2 was written in Ruby, Gikolet in Java but looks like the porting effort will be more difficult than rewriting it.
Stay tuned for this project progress as I expect I can provide a prototype in a few weeks.