I found myself setting up yet another web dev box. This time I decided to document the process to save myself the the constant Googling when I have to repeat this task.
I've had an article published over at http://mobile.tutsplus.com. It talks about how to create a custom API to allow an Android application to communicate with an external MySQL database.
A while back I did a series of articles for a website, the site was a tablet ROM community. The intention of the articles was to demonstrate the basics of creating an Android app to a community of highly skilled people but with little coding experience.
No money, no time, no additional equipment. But there's a birthday boy desperate to get on his new Nexus 7 that He's just got and you've had zero time to e-safety up the home.
So you've set up fog a test machine and decide you can’t live without it, or the current hardware is getting on a bit and you need to move to new hardware. Well it can be a daunting thought, especially for those who like me aren't very strong with Linux. After finally accomplishing this feat I will attempt to outline the procedure.
I will be assuming that you are running Ubuntu, you may need to change some of the code for a different distro.