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Android version 2.3 - 2.3.2 (API 9) are declared as obsolete, and according to Android Market statistics, are very rare (0.5% of market users). The question is: Why is API 9 declared obsolete and more importantly, is there any reason why should I not use it? I've been using API 9 and see no problems with it... am I missing something? Better not fix it if it's not broken, right? EDIT: Clarification: If I would update my applications' API from 9 to 10, what would be the benefits? I can only see negative effects: 1% of users will suddenly find out that the app doesn't work on their phones any

I have a Netbeans Platform modular project, not a regular Java project. I want to set VM options to increase memory, but under the "properties" dialog, there is no way to do this for a modular Netbeans platform project. This has cost me huge amounts of time and I still have not found a good way to set the VM args. Does anyone know how to set VM args using a Netbeans platform modular project, when compiling and running the program in Netbeans 7? Given the amount of trouble, I am almost ready to give up on Netbeans to create modular applications. It is quite easy, in fact. Just modify project

Reference: This is a self-answered question. It was meant to share the knowledge, Q&A style. How do I detect the type of end of line character in PHP? PS: I've been writing this code from scratch for too long now, so I decided to share it on SO, plus, I'm sure someone will find ways for improvement. /** * Detects the end-of-line character of a string. * @param string $str The string to check. * @param string $default Default EOL (if not detected). * @return string The detected EOL, or default one. */ function detectEol($str, $default=''){ static $eols = array( "\0x000D000A", // [UNICODE] CR+LF

I want to run a program on several platforms (including Mac OS), so I try to keep it as platform independent as possible. I use Windows myself, and I have a line os.startfile(file) . That works for me, but not on other platforms (I read in the documentation, I haven't tested for myself). Is there an equivalent that works for all platforms? By the way, the file is a .wav file, but I want users to be able to use their standard media player, so they can pause/rewind the file. That's why I use os.startfile() . I might be able to work with libraries that also allow playing/pausing/rewinding media

I'm trying to learn Embedded Android from the book with the same name. And the author suggested working with AOSP gingerbread branch. So I followed to download the source: $ repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest.git -b gingerbread $ repo sync But it's taking too long. Also from the output, it seems to me like it's also downloading source code from other branches (I see android-5.....) which is not what I want. I'm wondering if that's the reason why it takes so long. Has anybody had the same problem? Please give me a suggestion! Thanks! AOSP is a multi-gigabyte

I have a R program in a txt file say "functions.txt" . I load the "functions.txt" file the R using source("function.txt") and then call functions f1() , f2() etc. which are declared and defined within "function.txt" file. I also need to load a couple of R libraries using library() before I can use f1() , f2() etc. My question is can I acheive all this (i.e. calling function f1() and f2() ) from the windows prompt without opening the R environment ? So essentially I want to load the R libraries I need to run f1() , f2() etc. load the function.txt file run the individual functions f1() etc.