Development on The Photonsphere

NixOS Android Studio development environment (Docker based)

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Haskell development environment on Android phone

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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).

Serializing any-size objects to a random access file

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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 class that implements the Serializable interface, can be serialized and deserialized. Such a class is e.g. coded as follows: