This post is a follow up to CrazyBob’s great post on the same subject. A big thanks to him for posting it as it helped me and my team get to our final result of getting Android to communicate with a custom CA (Thawte in this case). The Original Problem In short, I was getting the dreaded error: SSLException: Not trusted server certificate This happened in Android when attempting to contact one of our servers in Germany. The problem is that the server is signed with a Thawte certificate and unfortunately Thawte is not in the list of known CA‘s in Android source code (yes, there...
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If you’ve recently upgraded to IntelliJ 10.5 and are using it for Android development you might run into an odd issue where when you try to debug IntelliJ hangs and says “Waiting for ADB” and then freezes. The IDE does not respond to any events and eventually you have to kill it. Something changed in the config values for IntelliJ (from what I can tell through my research online) and the best way to get around this error is to invalidate the caches and restart the IDE. After that, you should be golden. Enjoy. ...
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I’m working on a client project and I ran into an issue when I needed to run a maven task from within IntelliJ. When I would run it, it would return the following error. ...
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There comes a time when you need to show a EULA to your users of your Android apps. Doing this is pretty easy if you decide to ALWAYS show it when the user uses your app. However, that’s beyond annoying. The best case scenario for displaying a EULA to a user would go like this… ...
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I’m totally floored right now. My book hit and stayed at #1 in sales in ALL OF PROGRAMMING BOOKS for last week on Nielsen BookScan. Maybe it will do it again! Hopefully it will! What does that mean? It means that my book was the best selling book in the Programming Books category, ranking higher sales above all .NET Dev books, iPhone Dev Books, Java Books, Ruby Books, Rails Books, etc, you name it. My book was #1 and is showing no signs of slowing down (in fact, exactly the opposite according to my publisher). Again, I’m totally floored and feel very honored that people like my...
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