I*M Hell

I was just trying to implement client and server authentication over SSL on IBM Websphere 6 (JRE 1.4.2)…

Problems started to happen with a :

java.io.IOException: Error in loading the keystore: Private key decryption error: (java.lang.SecurityException: Unsupported keysize or algorithm parameters) at com.ibm.crypto.provider.PKCS12KeyStore.engineLoad(Unknown Source) at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:695) ... 30 more 

… easily solved by replacing the JRE’s policy files (local_policy.jar and US_export_policy.jar) with an unlimited version of them (ah,...

This has been annoying me since the beginning : small screen devices are not taken into account by the vast majority of apps editors.

Worse : despite Google’s pleading about size-caring (see developer.android.com/design), they recommend patterns that actually don’t fit the real small screens for which size-caring IS important. Example : the “action bar” and other icon bars : there is no place for such bars on small screens…

Of course the developer is able to adapt the...

Today I ran into a small problem that might happen sometimes : trying to benefit from a 2 day-only offer to download for free Duke Nukem 3d (just for fun, I don’t think it’s going to be the killer app this year ;-), I found out that my phone had not enough free memory to install it (Market told me : 56MB required).

After having removed several apps from the memory to free enough space to install the game...

This is a technical article aimed at Android developers. It does not require a lot of background on Android XML resources, but if you don’t understand something just check out the official docs.

The first time I read Android developer docs, there was something that was unclear to me : what resource to put in which XML file.

In this article, I will focus on resources in res/values/ and give some hints about how to...