[Android-development] [Development] Help needed to test Ministro 10.3, needed for Qt 5.4!

[md at rpzdesign.com]

Does this also kill Rooted devices used for development that allow us to
compile a minimal executable for upload to the device and shorten the
compile-upload-debug cycle times?

I like the idea of having a quick dev cycle time so I don't spend the
rest of my days waiting for USB ADB executable uploads and debugger running.

md

On 11/26/2014 1:08 PM, Harri Pasanen wrote:
> Hmm... looking at the issue it seems to me that it is not going to be
> fixed, it is an intentional change.   They are tightening the platform
> from security point of view, and this change is similar to change that
> made removable SD cards much less useful in KitKat: 
> https://plus.google.com/+TodLiebeck/posts/gjnmuaDM8sn
> 
> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#MODE_WORLD_READABLE
> says it has been deprecated since API level 17, so I doubt they'll bring
> it back.
> 
> Ministro has had a good run, but unless I'm mistaken this basically
> kills it?
> 
> Harri
> 
> 
> On 26/11/2014 13:28, Cristian Adam wrote:
>>
>> Please "star" the android issue so that Google developers understand
>> the severity of the problem.
>>
>> It's not like only six people are affected by this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cristian.
>>
>> On 26 Nov 2014 12:45, "BogDan" <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello folks,
>>
>>     I have some bad news about Ministro on Android 5.0. Due to a
>>     bug https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79478 introduced
>>     by Google in Android 5.0 final release apps that are using
>>     Ministro are not working anymore, on Android L preview it worked
>>     just fine. I hope in the next Android version Google will fix this
>>     problem.
>>
>>     New stuff added to Ministro 10.
>>     - application startup up speed improvement, I've cuted +150ms from the
>>     time that your application needs to wait for Ministro's response, now
>>     your application waits 2-4ms (of course if Ministro doesn't need to
>>     download/extract anything).
>>     - extract Qt 5.4 QuickControls style info
>>     - speed up the theme extraction (now it needs 2/3 of the previous
>>     time).
>>     - extract InsetDrawable. On Android 4.4.4 it seems this Drawable is
>>     used and will crash QWidget based apps if is not extracted.
>>
>>     New stuff added to 10.1
>>      - bumped MINISTRO_MAX_API_LEVEL
>>
>>     New stuff added to 10.3
>>      - for more exceptions on Android 5.0
>>      - extract default palette & fonts, needed by Qt 5.4
>>      - extract some Android 5.0 specific look and style info.
>>
>>     What happen with 10.2?
>>      - I bumped the version to 10.3 by mistake and I pushed it, so
>>     there was no 10.2 :).
>>
>>     How to test it:
>>     - make sure the previous version is installed and your apps are
>>     using it.
>>     - install over the previous version ($ adb install -r Ministro\
>>     II\ v10.3.apk).
>>       * Ministro will extract again *ONCE* the style.
>>       * Trying your existing apps should *NOT* trigger any new downloads.
>>     - after you test your applications with Ministro installed on top of
>>     previous Ministro version, please test in on a clean installation. So,
>>     go to settings -> apps and remove Ministro, then install it again ($
>>     adb install Ministro\ II\ v10.3.apk).
>>       * Ministro should extract style info and certificates and it should
>>     download again all needed libs.
>>       * Your application should work without any recompilation.
>>
>>
>>     Please download and test Ministro from here:
>>     https://files.kde.org/necessitas/installer/test/Ministro%20II%20v10.3.apk
>>
>>     Thank you!
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     BogDan.
>>
>>
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