It's such a little thing...

4/3/2012

...but it meant that precisely zero devices could see or download PCDB SuDoku Solver on Google Play. Changing one line in the application manifest file, and re-uploading it to Google Play, brought that number up to 105, including my own Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1. That's roughly what I was expecting, and reflects the number of tablet-like devices available with Android.

The difference is between 'hardware.screen.landscape' and 'android.hardware.screen.landscape'. When in doubt, it seems, put 'android.' at the front of anything significant that you develop for Android.

Meanwhile, I'm working on the free 'Lite' version of PCDB SuDoku Solver, and hope to have that available today as a taster app. There is a major decision to make though: should it solve games, but not let you solve them yourselves with its assistance, or the other way round. I'm leaning towards the former but am still undecided.

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Peter Wiles

Peter has been writing software since going up to Manchester University in 1965, the first year that the University offered Computer Science as a B.Sc course. After gaining a B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Science, he joined the British company ICL (later renamed Fujitsu Services) and worked there for 36 years, initially as a designer working on the development of the VME mainframe operating system. Later years were spent as a Systems Architect specialising in large Government and private sector customers including the DTI, European Commission, MAV (Hungarian Railways), the UK Post Office and HM Revenue & Customs. He retired from Fujitsu in 2007 and has devoted much of his time since to developing software for his own use and, more recently, to make available via the Android marketplace. Some of this software is aimed at supporting his other principal interest, sailing and maintaining his Westerly Seahawk yacht which he has recently moved to Troon in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

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