I have published my old app “Rövarspråksöversättare”, an assignment on the android course. Rövarspråket is the Swedish language game. Of course Bobusos (“bus” - en:prank in Rövarspråket) is open source and can be found on Github.

Now, to organize it a little bit, all improvement ideas will be placed in project issues on the github and tagged as “improvement ideas”. It is much better to collaborate this way. You can track the status of a improvement idea, comment it. Every time it is changed, all the involved developers will be announced.

A new version is published. As one can see on the github, this version has some UI improvements: Changed library pins to green: in order not to be confusing with the highlighted pins (the red dotted ones), Updated the Swedish localization strings.

.gitignore is very important. This file tells git which files not to care about. I found a good template for android .gitignore: .metadata tmp/** .DS_Store *.tmp *.bak tmp/**/* *.swp *~.nib Thumbs.db Desktop.ini *~ *.apk bin gen local.properties *.jar **.classpath** The only thing I have added is the last row: .classpath.

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J. Pablo Fernández — 2011-04-02

Thanks for pointing to the missing .classpath, it’s now fixed on gitignore.com.

Here comes my checklist about what has to be done in order to publish an upgrade on Market.

• get all code from github (git pull origin master)
• Test the application
• Change version number in AndroidManifest.xml
• Commit “version x.x.” and push
• (Change google map api key in res/layout/main.xml to the prod key)
• In Eclipse: Project → Clean
• Right-click on project → Android tools → Export signed… (~/Skrivbord/LUSites-unaligned.apk)
• Zipalign (e.g.: zipalign -v 4 LUSites-unaligned.apk LUSites-v0.2.7.apk)
• Publish upgrade on market
• Save the apk to the archive

It is my pleasure to announce that a new version is ready for release. The biggest news are the nations which are now on the map. Other improvements are spelling error corrections. Great thanks to Kigsz. You can read about adding nations to the map on Lusites wiki.

Smashing magazine has a pretty good tutorial how to start programming for android using git, github, eclipse and datastorage. I recommend: Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded

There is a very good wiki page which describes how to set up the environment. If you think something is missing there, just leave a comment here. Much of that was inspired by a useful tutorial from doityourselfandroid.com

So if you have an existing copy of the project, just type: git pull origin master Or in Egit in Eclipse, right-click on repo and run “Fetch from upstream”.

If there are new classes or files in the project (say you have got the latest version from github into existing workspace in Eclipse). In order for Eclipse to see them, right click on the package and press “Refresh”.