(Geneve.Swiss) Tired of seeing autostart finder popups every time I plugged in my new hTc one into my mac. Here’s a way to disable it: Identify UUID: by using “diskutil info /Volumes/HTC\ Sync\ Manager you can get its volume UUID sudo vifs add a line as below: UUID=YOURVOLUMEUUID none hfs rw,noauto = = = = = As for disabling Android File Transfer app, you just need to rename file names of the so called Agent app: ...

Being a long time vim user, this is the first time that I heard vim supports relative line numbers, by which users can jump around the editor screen even more quickly. Just type :set rnu will do the trick. Another good plugin that can improve navigation speed is EasyMotion. It works a bit like the “f” feature in vimperator for firefox. Too bad that it’s not avaible for intellij’s ideavim.

(Taipei.Taiwan) Miss my One V. **** Seems the IPs of Heroku are blocked, so “git push heroku” can not work normally. In order to fix this problem, add following lines to the .ssh/config file: Oh, by the way, remember to change the user name to your own one. REF: Check this link

(富貴角.Taiwan) 剛剛試了一下谷歌的語音輸入，覺得有些時候應該蠻實用的。所以打算幫它在Lime HD中加個快速切換的功能。在Lime HD中原本就有開啟Google語音輸入法的方式，只是我覺得有點太麻煩了。原本的方式是： ...

(Geneve.Swiss) Climbing is pleasant, but it leads you to better views. Some shortcuts can be integrated into ideaVIM, but some are more complicated and need other tricks to make it more handy. One of the technique is to use macros. As Mac’s Automator, you can ask Intellij or Android Studio to record your actions, and make it available as a keyboard shortcut. For example, if you want to add javadoc comment to a funtion, you need to move to the first line of a certain function, and type in /**. After pressing Enter, it will generate javadoc template for that specific function. Though it’s already very convenient, it still takes time if you’re not quite familiar with how to move the cursor to the first line of the function. ...

(Leiden.Netherlands) IdeaVIM is a vim-like input plugin for intellij IDE, good for text editing but not so powerful if you want to use it for other IDE tasks, for example accessing menu actions by defining keyboard shortcuts. Fortunately, someone in Japan branched the source codes on GitHub, and wrote some tweaks to make it possible to configure all kinds of Intellij menu items to keyboard shortcuts as you wish in a config file. ...

(Geneve.Swiss) It’s such a pain to look for solutions for tasks on Android Studio. When can it be mature enough and more well documented for developers? I would like to write some test cases for my small app, but I couldn’t find a way for adding test cases into Android Studio project and have it run successfully. After wandering around on the internet for a long time, eventually I found a link that did helped me out (see reference below). As Google I/O 2013 video said, a new android build system made of gradle is released, which will be more flexible, more powerful, more etc, etc. However, currently, it ’s not well integrated into Android Studio. Some modification in Android Studio won’t be directly reflected in gradle build scripts. Well… then, how do I know when I should modify build scripts my self? And to write it by myself, I have to learn groovy first, because that’s the language Gradle used to write its build configuration files. How could I master these things in a short time… ...

I saw someone met the same problem on StackOverflow. Fortunately, I found out how to make it work. So leave some notes here: upgrade Gradle version to 1.6 Afterward, running “gradle build –stacktrace”, you will see that ANDROID_HOME environment variable is required to be set up. on Mac, add following line to your ~/.bash_profile export ANDROID_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk/" Now it should work like a charm!

(Annecy.France) It’s annoying that I have to click on torrent files every time I download them in firefox. Although I tried to check the option to open always with a certain application in SaveFile dialog, it never worked. However, the solution seems so simple that I should have searched the internet earlier to make my life easier. In firefox official support website, it mentioned that this is configurable in Peferences: ...

(Central Park.New York) Strangely, it’s not possible to get current rotation angle in android directly, except for getting the fixed 4 rotation modes: 0, 90, 180, 270. In order to get precise rotation degrees instead of rotation modes, OrientationEventListener can be used. Once it’s implemented, you can get the rotation degree in onOrientationChanged(). It’s a lot easier than manipulating values from all the sensors like gyroscope, accelerator, etc. REF: ...