One issue that took some time to solve while developing my last android app is that in this application there is a large database that I've prepopulated before deploying to the market. Even on the emulator I was typically seeing the initial deployment take 5-10 minutes to populate the ...

I've begun developing on the android platform and I thought I'd write a series of articles on things I've learned since I started. Today's is going to be on command line access to the embedded sqlite database. Access to the database can be obtained using the ...

It's bothered me for a while now that many open source distributions and software packages include batch files that depend on JAVA_HOME being defined and pointing to the correct location. There must be a way around this dependency since people may not have the JAVA_HOME environment variable defined properly ...