http://packrat.unwesen.de Media collection management for Android. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:33:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seems like the Samsung Galaxy might be getting an upgrade to Android 1.6. How do I know? Well, the GA tracking that's included in PackRat reports the Android version PackRat is run on -- and little else, I might add. That's been incredibly useful in figuring out, for example, that I can ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2010/03/android-1-6-on-samsung-galaxy-gt-i7500l/ A bugfix release version 1.1.2 has just hit Android Market! Thanks to PackRat's awesome users, I can fix bugs even when I don't find time for major development work. One such user sent in crash log, which shows that PackRat crashes on certain book searches. The bug is actually quite embarrassing -- ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2010/02/packrat-1-1-2-released/ I just pushed 1.1.1 to the Android Market and AndAppStore. Updates should hit your phone Very Soon (TM). One of PackRat's users, Sean Glass, was nice enough to provide me with a crash log that let me analyze a crash he was experiencing -- and by the reviews I read, he ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2010/02/packrat-1-1-1-released/ I hope you have a great holiday season, and I wish you all the best for the new year! Disappointingly, the christmas release I was hoping to finish was not to be. It's going to sound like a lame excuse at this point, but other things kept interrupting. But fear not, I've ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2009/12/merry-christmas/ After a bit of hacking at Google's offices, I've managed to confirm what helpful users reported: the Droid Scanner Issues are fixed, and that warrants a new release! Unfortunately, the fix requires me to drop support for Android 1.5. I'm sorry! This is a side project, and I don't really have ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2009/12/packrat-1-1-0-released/ I've received a few comments that Droid users can't scan any barcodes with PackRat. I don't have a Droid, but when I tried out PackRat on a borrowed device, it seems to have worked just fine. That makes debugging this issue pretty hard for me. Here are a few ways you ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2009/11/droid-scanner-issues/ This morning's post about the current issues surrounding integration of Android apps via Intents got a few more responses than I had expected. The good news is that Google is aware of the issue. The bad news is that that doesn't help right away, of course. But there are some things ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2009/11/towards-standards-for-intents/ Today's post on the Android Developers Blog annoys me. Titled Integrating Application with Intents, it describes pretty awesome mechanism by which one app can re-use parts of another app's code, provided both are structured properly. If you're technically inclined, head over to that blog for the nitty-gritty of things. It's pretty ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2009/11/not-integrating-application-with-intents/ Hot on the heels of version 1.0.2 I've just published a new version. Before you get too excited, there aren't any major new features in this release. It also does not fix any bugs ((I don't know of any in v1.0.2)). The reason for this new release is simply that a lot ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2009/11/packrat-1-0-3-released/ Yay! I've just pushed PackRat's first release to the Market. While ADC2 didn't quite end as I'd hoped, all of you wonderful people who voted PackRat into the top 25% of entrants deserve to use it on a daily basis ((Assuming that's a good thing, and not punishment.)). Thank you very ... http://packrat.unwesen.de/2009/11/packrat-1-0-2-released/