An Android Studio development environment can be somewhat cumbersome to set up under NixOS, so a solution using a Docker container is described in this article. Normally instructions at NixOS Android suffice, but I'm experiencing trouble with additional functionality (e.g. The Gradle Wrapper). Hence this Docker based …

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Install a full Haskell development environment (including hpack and cabal) on your Android phone. The command prompt runs via Termux and its PRoot (i.e. proot-distro). F-Droid Install F-Droid from f-droid.org (follow instructions). Termux + PRoot First install the Termux package via F-Droid and then follow the PRoot …

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This article will delve into the details involved in serializing and deserializing arbitrarily sized objects to- and from a byte array. The contents of the byte array are stored in a random access file. An index file is kept to allow for objects of varying size. Serializable objects Any object that is an instance of a …

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