Android Question KitKat emulator

[boten]

Some of my users complain about the "hollow font" in KitKat.
Since I don't have a KitKat device, I installed the SDK for android 4.4

First hurdle: AVD manager would not let me define a 4.4 device until I also installed "ARM EABI v7a System Image"
I did that, and defined a 4.4 device 4.0" 480x800

Second hurdle:
Trying to compile the program I got the error msg:

Installing file to device.  Error
   pkg: /data/local/tmp/myapp.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]
   Setting CanInstallToExternalStorage attribute to False may solve this problem.

I changed Module Attributes to:

#CanInstallToExternalStorage: False

Now it compiled and I get the hollow fonts.
Still, how can I specify

#CanInstallToExternalStorage: True

so the app can be installed to external storage?

Third hurdle:
Hollow font.

I replaced core.jar with the one supplied here
Font is OK.

Question remains:
how can I specify

#CanInstallToExternalStorage: True

so the app can be installed to external storage?

Side note: nothing to do with B4A, but 4.4 emulator is EXTREMELY slow.

 

[Erel]

Make sure that the emulator you created includes a sd card.

 

[boten]

I'm pretty sure I do.
Here's a screen shot of the KitKat Emulator parms. Am I missing anything?

 

[Informatix]

nothing to do with B4A, but 4.4 emulator is EXTREMELY slow.

Not surprising. They have not yet released a system image for Intel x86 CPUs.

 

[alienhunter]

Use Genymotion not perfect but fast

 

[Informatix]

Use Genymotion not perfect but fast

Could be a good advice if Genymotion had a 4.4 image...

 

[boten]

Slow, but any idea about my parms to make it install for external storage?

 

[Erel]

Your configuration looks correct. Might be a bug in this emulator. I highly recommend you to use a real device instead of the emulator. Currently there are two known issues with Android 4.4, the hollow text with Canvas.DrawText (which is fixed) and the fast scroller which is missing in ListView, and for now there is no workaround.

 

[boten]

... Might be a bug in this emulator

Probably so.
Until I get a KitKat device my procedure is this:
1) I will test KitKat emulator (for NO hollow font) with

#CanInstallToExternalStorage: False

2) When everything is OK, compile with

#CanInstallToExternalStorage: True

3) Even after failing to install on emulator (as per my 1st post) - The APK is already there in Objects, so I can UL it to Google Play.

Makes sense?

 

[Informatix]

Makes sense?

Yes, it's what I would do.

 

[boten]

Further observation:
In the definition of the KitKat emulator, if I leave the SD Card: field blank (do not specify any value as size), then
compilation with:

#CanInstallToExternalStorage: True

works.
Does not seem logical, but it works. (Ours not to reason why)

 

[alienhunter]

Could be a good advice if Genymotion had a 4.4 image...

they have 4.3 and yes they do not have yet 4.4 but it seems it will be out "soon" as the webpage states

 

[Informatix]

they have 4.3 and yes they do not have yet 4.4 but it seems it will be out "soon" as the webpage states

I just said that because this thread concerns only Kitkat, so Genymotion is of no use here.

 

[TedDog]

I have a Nexus 4 running 4.4.2, and I'm getting "hollow text" on my canvas.drawtext, too. I tried changing the Typeface value, but it doesn't help.

The Kit Kat upgrade also turned the button default color to a gray that was so dark it became hard to read the black text. That was easily fixed by setting the color manually to light gray.

 

[Erel]

The fixed Core.jar is available here: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/android-4-4-issues.34292/#post-201454