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For example if you are looking for a nice refresh icon you could use: path_to_android_sdk\platforms\”android-xx”\data\res\drawable-hdpi\ic_menu_refresh.png.

Whereby you replace xx with the version of the Android SDK you are interested in.

I hope this helps.

Once started it will use the Android adb to show the screen of you phone on your computer. Can be handy for demos.

This week I’m in the process of delivering a 5 days Eclipse 4 training together with Marcel Bruch and M7 really shines in terms of stability.

M7 contains lots of small enhancements which make adapting Eclipse 4 much nicer, my personal favorite is Bug report: Application.e4xmi should be optional for which Sopot Cela provided a patch. With this patch you can convert an Eclipse plug-in into an Eclipse 4 application without creating manually any extension in the plugin.xml file.

Please give Eclipse 4 M7 a try and report bugs you find in Bugzilla.

I also thinks its about time to release my Eclipse 4 book for the Kindle. This will be an “Early Access Version” due to the fact that Eclipse 4 is still not final and that certains chapters still need some rework but should hopefully be a good reference. I plan to provide updates for this version once Eclipse 4 is released via the Kindle store.

I hope that I will be able to publish this version of the Eclipse 4 book next week. Fingers crossed.

You can find out if a LocationManager is enabled via the isProviderEnabled() method. If its not enabled you can send the user to the settings via an Intent with the Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS action for the android.provider.Settings class.

This is demonstrated via the following code snippets:

LocationManager service = (LocationManager) getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);
boolean enabled = service
	.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);

// Check if enabled and if not send user to the GSP settings
// Better solution would be to display a dialog and suggesting to
// go to the settings
if (!enabled) {
  Intent intent = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS);
	startActivity(intent);
}

You find more info about the LocationManager in Location API and Google Maps in Android – Tutorial

Unfortunately I also simultaneously moved vogella.de from one provider to another. This was the first time I moved a domain and in the process I forgot to setup the A record in the DNS settings.

Sorry for any inconvenience this caused, I’m aware that lots of people use my website for their daily work. Everything should be fine by now, also Google starts showing vogella.com search results instead of vogella.de

Here is a small example for the usage of a touch delegate. The layout has the ID root and contains a button with the ID delegated_button.

package de.vogella.android.touchdelegate;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.TouchDelegate;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
	private Button mButton;

	/** Called when the activity is first created. */
	@Override
	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.main);
		mButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.delegated_button);
		View parent = findViewById(R.id.root);
		parent.post(new Runnable() {
			public void run() {
				// Post in the parent's message queue to make sure the parent
				// lays out its children before we call getHitRect()
				Rect delegateArea = new Rect();
				Button delegate = mButton;
				delegate.getHitRect(delegateArea);
				delegateArea.top -= 600;
				delegateArea.bottom += 600;
				delegateArea.left -= 600;
				delegateArea.right += 600;
				TouchDelegate expandedArea = new TouchDelegate(delegateArea,
						delegate);
				// give the delegate to an ancestor of the view we're
				// delegating the
				// area to
				if (View.class.isInstance(delegate.getParent())) {
					((View) delegate.getParent())
							.setTouchDelegate(expandedArea);
				}
			};
		});
	}
}

So here it is, I migrated to vogella.com, please update your bookmarks. I setup re-directs so for most things you should be fine. But if you syndicated my blog you may want to update your links.

In case you find issues, please let me know.

I give both detail examples for model fragments and processors and the whole examples is based on my Eclipse 4 tutorial.

Extending the application model via other plug-ins is a bit challenging, therefore I hope this tutorial help.

Pauls tip make it easy, here is an example which will add EGit, Mylyn and EMF to your Eclipse instance.

eclipse/eclipse \
-application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \
-noSplash \
-repository \
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno \
-installIUs \
org.eclipse.egit.feature.group,\
org.eclipse.jgit.feature.group,\
org.eclipse.emf.sdk.feature.group,\
org.eclipse.mylyn_feature.feature.group

Just make sure the initial path is correct and once this is done, restart your Eclipse. I must say that is a cool feature of p2, which makes me like p2 much more. The manual installation process was really annoying.

I hope this helps. Thanks again to Paul!

Does anyone know if I can also de-install components with the director?