Background is probably meaningless at this point. I started programming applications for Android tablets about a month ago and met quite a few hurdles on my way. This blog is supposed to be a compendium of some of the most excruciating bugs I met (whines) and some of the most horribly wrong hacks I used to overcome them (cheeses). You bet, I’m French.
I somehow missed the whole “mobile app” craze and only joined the bandwagon recently. I intend to focus my efforts on the Honeycomb platform (API levels 11 and up), so most of my issues & solutions will be Honeycomb-specific – previous API levels are well documented enough, anyway.
As a disclaimer, to me a “cheese” is my own little notion of dumb hack that did the trick for me. It’s not meant as an end-all-be-all solution to all problems, only a few lines of code that freed me from the anguish of banging my head for more hours than necessary. Of course, my contributions will be outdated after a while, so always check the date of the post!
I’d love to thank all who submitted their own bugs to StackOverflow and all who actually cared enough to try to answer them. You’ve helped tons. I’m so sorry I can’t keep a thorough history of each of my investigations.
I hope the reader will find some use from some of the articles in here.