Off topic Android I took a break from my science stuff about 6 monthsago. Amazon asked me to write apps forKindle. They apparently liked my books. Why not give it a try? I downloaded Android Studio and began workingwith it. I wrote executables in Basic yearsago but never produced anything that loaded into Windows.
Android Studio was trying. It had many files to work with Java, XML. Gradle, and Manefest. The only two that needed to be programmed werethe Java and the XML. The rest were moreor less generated automatically. XML waseasy. It’s an image presentation filemuch like HTML. I don’t know way theycall it XML. XML is a way to encapsulate data in dynamic HTML. The Java proved to be a test of patience. It produced errors like, “method cannot berun from a static context”. Some fileswere even encapsulated in a cryptic context wrapper. Every step of it was like pulling a tooth to getit to work. I was born in an era beforeobject orient programming. C++ would beeasier but Java it is. Once a method wasworking, however, it was another tool in my tool chest. Music accounts for only 5% of app business but 30% of theprofit. Apple IOS has music all sewn up. The new release Android M (mushroom) is anattempt to catch up on the music revenue. It is to read MIDI inputs. I installed a preview of M on a NEXIS and wrote software for it on AndroidStudio. I want to write software that helps people who play be earto read music. My project, NOTES , worksexcept for the reading in of the MIDI data. The Google file that does this MidiManager still presents 7 errors. It should be an easy twostep process. Open MidiManager and then open a listener on aport. The data is to go into a data typeHandler. MIDI has several bits of data,the key number, the velocity, and up, down. Handler holds all of this data. Ionly need the key number and can use type int for that bit of data. A video of what I have done to date is linked below. It’s nice to take a break from coldfusion. We all need to do that. http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/backups/Android_demo.mov The next time you hear about this the app I hope it is availablefor sale on Amazon and Google play. >From there more apps to follow of course. Frank Znidarsic
