Announcement of version 1.7.1 free and PRO

[Tom]

I have finished the version 1.7.1 of JavaIDEdroid (free and PRO)

You can get the APKs from Google Play or from AndroidPIT.

Check the history (http://code.google.com/p/java-ide-droid/wiki/History) to see the changes made.

Enjoy!
Tom

[FredT4]

Tom, I took a look at this December of last year (Pro Version). Decided to take another look today and I've found the improvements outstanding. Just compiled the HelloWorld app and installed it. I then modified the source code and recompiled and reinstalled and it worked smoothly. Excellent work.

Perhaps a bit of the ease of using your app was also in my greater understanding of the Android process and nomenclature.

Now I would like to figure out how to sign the apps with my own signing key.

In addition how to rename the package name.

My last question is does JavaIDEdroid work with the Google APIs?

I highly recommend anyone looking at this app to use the Pro version.

Fred

[Tom]

Fred,
Signing with your own signing key is possible: http://code.google.com/p/zip-signer/source/browse/zipsigner-lib/trunk/README.txt

I, myself, do not use my own signing key on Android. While I'm developing, I use the testkeys and when I want to publish the app, I build (and sign) it on the desktop.
From what I see in the above readme.txt it is not very easy to make this work. If you do, please post your solution here.


To change to the package name, you need to do the following:
- rename the directories so they match your package name
- in every .java file change the line with the package clause
- in AndroidManifest change the package name


What do you mean by Google APIs? What are you trying to do?

Tom

[Fred Ramos]

Tom,

What do you mean by Google APIs? What are you trying to do?

To use Google Maps you must use the Google API instead of the Android API.

Apparently this is also true for other Google services.

Fred

[Tom]

Not 'instead' but 'in addition': It seems that you need to download the Google API library to the libs directory of your app.

[Fred Ramos]

I've been searching for the Google libraries, do you have a link?

Fred



-----Original Message-----
From: tom....@gmail.com
To: java-ide-droid

[Fred Ramos]

Tom,

Perhaps this means more to you than I understand:

"It took me a really long time to figure out how to sign android apps. I figured I would give everyone a tutorial about application signing.

Step 1: Go to the Command Prompt (Run/Cmd) (this also works with terminal)

Step 2: Type the following code into the command prompt: keytool -genkey -v -keystore mykeystore.keystore -alias aliasname -keyalg RSA -validity 999999

(replace mykeystore with the name of your application) (If using Mac OS place sudo before keytool in the command line)

Step 3: The command prompt will ask you for passwords etc. Fill it all in. When it asks if you want to use a different password, just click enter to use the one that you entered previously.

There you go, that is how you sign your android app. Now go to Corona and build your application, browse the folder that you saved it in and your done!"

Is it possible to do this on an Android device?

Fred

[Tom]

See here: https://developers.google.com/

[Tom]

This is the description on how to create your keystore - and no, this works only on the desktop.

[Tom]

Fred,

With the new version 2.0.1 it is now possible to sign APKs with your own signing key.

Tom