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Air Quality Android App released

Submitted by CrashTest_ on

I have had an itch since getting my G1 some time ago, and that was to have a better way to view air quality information on my phone. There just wasn't a way to do it. So, I scratched my own itch, and created Air Quality, an Android app that will show you current particulate and ozone levels, and by clicking on the city you have chosen, will show you AirNow.gov's forecast for that city.

I am going to charge for this app so that I can get enough dollars from it to cover the Apple developer license, at which point I will release it for iOS devices.

You can find this app in the Android Market under "Applications -> Health" or by searching the market for "Air Quality" - it's the one published by my company, 33rd Prime.

Air Quality splash

Getting Appcelerator Titanium to Work on My Mac

Submitted by CrashTest_ on

After climbing a few rungs of the Java+Android SDK ladder trying to make my own apps, and partially succeeding, I begin to look around to see if there was a better/easier to grok way to make Android apps. I found the Appcelerator Titanium project, and had a big-ole wootfest!

Sadly however, I was soon to have the unfortunate experience of trying to get this pretty flakey thing to work.

Starting from an environment where I had already produced working code and gotten it from my computer onto both my phone and an emulator using the Eclipse IDE, I thought I would be 10 steps ahead. Nope. I met with many many errors such as the very much not helpful:

“Project creation error: Error creating project. Please try again.”

and the marvelously not helpful: 

“[ERROR] Failed installing com.example.hello: pkg: /data/local/tmp/app.apk”

or the entirely show-stopping “Loading” + “Loading” display on SDK: and Screen:

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