Today I worked a bit more on the Where am I? app and came into some issues. First off, my Nexus 7 isn't giving a last known location (error on the line that assigns a Double to both the latitude and longitude). This might be an issue with GPS or something similar not being enabled or allowed on the device, so I'll attempt to to bugfixes as well as test it on a different Android device hopefully over the weekend.
Edit: Today I also helped Aki with setting up his IntelliJ so that he could try getting his modified game to work. In the end, we realized that they have no USB Debugging drivers for the Android SDK on Linux (in other words, you can't plug in an Android device for testing in the SDK). Therefore, we had to put his project on my computer so he could test it on his phone. But this didn't work as it was a Java Applet, so I couldn't download it. We'll re-attempt it Monday.
The first thing I had asked you to do was to test your GPS with the app I showed you. The plan was to first confirm that the physical device was working in the easiest way possible, and only then to investigate how to read from it at a low level using code.
ReplyDeleteSince we are going to be getting ready for the programming contest, it may make the most sense next week to shift focus to the CS II course and the programming contest problems. Alex and Sam started already, so having the three of you working together will be the most effective way to start building a team.