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Posts Tagged ‘mobile’

On Windows: Do not install the Android SDK ADT bundle in a path with spaces

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/28

Some 20 years after someone thought it was a nice idea to allow spaces in path names on Windows, it still is a bad idea to rely that just “works” for everything.

Today I tried to see if it still applied what I mentioned 2 years ago during the German BASTA! Fall conference in the Rheingoldhalle when talking about cross platform .NET development using MonoDroid/MonoTouch/Visual Studio:

Android SDK
– http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
– Windows:
- http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r13-windows.exe
- http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r13-windows.zip
Do not install in a directory with spaces (not C:\Program Files, but C:\android-sdk)

And it does still apply: though not mentioned in the Android SDK/ADT documentation, most of the batch files in the Android SDK ADT bundle are not compatible being stored in a path that has spaces.

Unquoted referrals to paths like this are used in most SDK batch files:

cd /d %~dp0

The only way to run these batch files is with the current directory being the directory of the batch file itself, or referring to them in their fully quoted form.

Another correct way would be to use short names, but that’s only done in find_java.bat:

%~dps0

Summary of the batch files and how they are affected:


+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\build-tools\android-4.2.2\dx.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\android.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\ddms.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\draw9patch.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\hierarchyviewer.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\jobb.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\lint.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\monitor.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\monkeyrunner.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\traceview.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\uiautomatorviewer.bat
– …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\lib\find_java.bat
+ …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\lib\post_tools_install.bat
* …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\proguard\bin\proguard.bat
* …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\proguard\bin\proguardgui.bat
* …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\proguard\bin\retrace.bat
– …\adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130522\sdk\tools\templates\gradle\wrapper\gradlew.bat
– compatible with spaces in path
+ incompatible with spaces in path
* won't run at all when current directory is different from directory of batch file

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(Side note: most incompatible batch files correctly do `for %%i in (“%cd%”) do set prog_dir=%%~fsi`)

So: make sure “…”  is a path not containing spaces.

–jeroen

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No more Android phone for me…

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/05

After all my address-contacts trouble I was hoping my phone would behave for at least a while.

Not so, like in the past it often:

  • pops up a black screen while using the phone book requiring a power button reboot
  • looses Bluetooth in the middle of a call, requiring a hard reboot (remote battery, insert battery, start over)
  • looses GSM/UMTS connection in the middle of a call, basically terminating the call
  • looses internet data connection, requiring a hard reboot
  • looses GPS connection, not sure about a work around
  • turns off the vibrate, but doesn’t turn on the ring tone (so I miss lots of phone calls)
  • turns of Bluetooth and/or WiFi after a reboot
  • finds out even the basic apps like mail, phone or calendar hang and need to be “reported”, but I never get follow-ups on that
  • refuses to sync important data because “it will retry later”
  • cannot find contacts in the database, but after manually re-adding them, you suddenly have two
  • the mail app keeping restarting while fetching mails

What kept me using it was the usefulness of many apps.

But now I won’t any more: the last 4 days, the gMail app managed to use almost 1 gigabyte of data (my monthly plan) for no reason at all.

That was the limit.

Bye bye Android.

Now I just need to decide:

  • iPhone 5
  • Windows Phone 8

Given the update track-record of Apple, this is a no brainer.

–jeroen

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