Taking a Different Road

Minor configuration update.

AlphaMixr 1.3.0 Full & Lite were released today. AlphaMixr Lite now contains 100 games instead of 20. The time bonus issue has been fixed in both versions.

I received my Nexus One on Thursday. It is flat-out fast. I’m really liking it, even if it doesn’t have a physical keyboard like my G1.

I was pretty excited to load my latest development game on it. However I found that the Ubuntu USB settings that I had setup for the G1 didn’t work for the Nexus One, even though they’re both HTC phones. I had setup Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) for the G1 based on these instructions: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html. As of Jan 9 2010, this page does not have a USB vendor ID for the Nexus One/Google. The “0bb4″ vendor ID for HTC does not work. The Nexus One shows up as “?????????” in adb/Eclipse.

I did some serious Googling for a solution and found two hits with instructions, but they were both saying to use “0bb4″ for the USB vendor ID. That’s what I had and that doesn’t work. I then read an post that said Google updated the Windows SDK USB driver for Nexus One. I downloaded this to one of my Windows boxes and looked at the vendor ID in the .inf file - it is “18D1″ for Nexus One.

In short - follow these instructions:

1. Follow the instructions at  http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html
2. Replace the vendor id of “0bb4″ with “18d1″ in /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules. Or add another line that reads:
   SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666"
3. Just restarting adb after this didn’t work for me. I had to reboot Ubuntu. That took me a while to figure out.

After the reboot I was up and running. Development cycle times are now much faster because installs are faster.

The new features of this Text Twist-like scrambled word game include an improved dictionary and the ability to view Global High Score maps right on your phone!

If you have an Android phone - especially the new Verizon Droid - you should check out this game. It’s available on the Android Market in a Trial and Full version. More information is available at http://AlphaMixr.net.

AlphaMixr, my Android game for T-Mobile G1, et. al. is on sale for $.99 this weekend (through 7/26). You can beat the price - it’s less that a hamburger on the $1 menu at McDonald’s! Get it while it’s hot!

AlphaMixr was picked as the #1 G1 Game or App on this blog.

You can read the review for AlphaMixr at Android Tapp where it got 4 out of 5 droids.  You can also read AlphaMixr user reviews on Cyrket.

You can see screen shots and more information about AlphaMixr at its website: AlphaMixr.net.

AlphaMixr, my game for Google Android (T-Mobile G1, et. al.), was reviewed the other day and got 4 out of 5 “droids.” You can read the review at Android Tapp.  You can also read AlphaMixr user reviews on Cyrket (an online Android Market browser).

In other news, AlphaMixr Demo hit the 10,000 download mark today at Android Market.  I think this will pick up even more as additional Android-based devices are released globally this year.

You can see screen shots and more information about AlphaMixr at its website: AlphaMixr.net.