Sunday, May 8, 2011

Android game development - libgdx

Couple of weeks ago I did a quick research about writing games for Android and I found libgdx. I encourage everyone writing games for Android to take a look on it. It is really great! You can run the same code as a desktop application or as Android app (I haven't try it on the device yet). It covers bunch of useful APIs, including for example box2d wrapper, audio, graphics, json, etc.

Acer Aspire and Ubuntu 11.04 Issues

I've just updated Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 and then 11.04. I faced several issues. I didn't have time to work on them more, so I can present only quick, dirty workarounds without much explanation:

1) There was a blank screen when I tried to run Ubuntu after the upgrade

I had to run it in the safe mode (something like that - don't remember exactly the name) and enable different graphics driver.

2) When I start the laptop it always first shows just a blank screen and hangs, after I restart it again it works

3) WiFi stopped working

The interface is blocked. rfkill doesn't help. The quickest workaround is to execute the following command:

sudo rmmod acer_wmi

4) Touchpad is not working